| Rocker Case who tweeted "If a dude called me a 'cougar' I'd be more likely to kill him bare-handed and shit him out in front of his parents than fuck him" | 176 |
| Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in turn, of each starred answer would be touch-typed | 154 |
| Remembrance word [CONTEST NOTE: My online crossword contest is ONE WEEK AWAY (Sept. 30). First prize, $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 145 |
| Rare large white animal killed by hunters in Nova Scotia last fall, which sparked an outrage due to its sacred status to the Mi'kmaq people | 143 |
| Rocker Bonnie [CONTEST NOTE: My online all-skill crossword contest is Sept. 30. First prize is $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 138 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| Radio personality who said "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom" | 118 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| Rare occurrence at the U.S. Open on Father's Day that's a common occurrence at the U.S. Open on Labor Day | 113 |
| Restrictions, like the ones on PA systems that necessitate the "human microphone" at Occupy Wall Street | 113 |
| Recurring movie character who "Goes to Jail," "Goes to Camp," and "Saves Christmas" | 113 |
| Reply to "Lackaday, Lady Macbeth, what shouldst be said to the cursed dog to make it leave the castle?" | 113 |
| Reviewer on "The French Lieutenant's Woman": "It gets bogged down in excessive detail" | 110 |
| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| Racer Protasiewicz or ex-prime minister Jaroszewicz (or a variant spelling of Tchaikovsky's first name) | 107 |
| Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid | 106 |
| Relieved comment from a "Next Food Network Star" contestant when the judge likes her fowl dish? | 105 |
| Red Sox pitcher Bruce who was selected to be the 1986 World Series MVP just before the Mets forced Game 7 | 105 |
| Reverend whose name is linked to terms like "Pazz and Jop," and this puzzle's theme answers | 105 |
| Red Sox catcher Carlton whose 12th-inning off-the-foul-pole home run won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 104 |
| Regarding Obamacare, she said "we have to pass the bill so that we can find out what is in it" | 104 |
| Result of an Oscar nominee's disappearance at an awards ceremony? [releases of 1968, 1982 and 1982] | 104 |
| Reach a place where the use of cellular telephones and other electronic devices is once again permitted | 103 |
| Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" | 103 |
| Rapper who said "My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform" | 103 |
| Reply to "Mark Antony, dost thou require any of my Spock accessories for the costume party?" | 102 |
| Radio host who said "My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life" | 101 |
| Rejected Supreme Court nominee whose name has become a verb meaning "attack relentlessly" | 99 |
| Reynolds who renamed himself "Turd Ferguson" on SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | 99 |
| Rap/country collaboration with a Dirty South version of "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy"? | 99 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| Retailer whose "Gutvik" children's bed translates to "good fuck" in German | 98 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| Rapper who prefers a pretty large mattress, or comparable in build to fashion designer Alexander? | 97 |
| Run in the wash[To fully understand this week's and last week's puzzles, SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 96 |
| Radio studio feature, and what each of this puzzle's four other longest answers literally is | 96 |
| R&B group with the 1963 chart-topper "Easier Said Than Done," with "the" | 96 |
| Radiohead album that was #428 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" | 96 |
| Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
| Rapper who was the first artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time | 95 |
| Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" | 95 |
| Reynolds' impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? | 94 |
| Reality TV show won by Cris Judd and Lou Diamond Phillips in its first two seasons, familiarly | 94 |
| Rhyming phrase that highlights one of the benefits of having sex with full-figured individuals | 94 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Ray who said, "It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun" | 93 |
| River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" | 93 |
| Real-life talk show host played by Jay Mohr on 1990s "Saturday Night Live" episodes | 93 |
| Reed who sang "when the smack begins to flow/then I really don't care anymore" | 92 |
| Result of not following through (of which there are four examples in this puzzle's grid) | 92 |
| Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 | 92 |
| Rabbit relatives discovered that multiply by dividing; appropriately, they're called ... | 92 |
| Redistributionist's catchphrase ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters | 92 |
| Rapper with no plans to stick around, or a "Back to the Future" hero after hours? | 91 |
| Roman writer who originated the phrase "Where there's life, there's hope" | 91 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |
| Romanian-born composer of the famously eerie theme music for "The Twilight Zone" | 90 |
| Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? | 89 |
| River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" | 89 |
| Real-life law enforcer in the "Doctor Who" episode "The Gunfighters" | 88 |
| Radio host who said of U2: "These guys are from England and who gives a shit?" | 88 |
| Reasonable response to "Do you think BP is handling the oil spill adequately?" | 88 |
| Rand referenced by Rand Paul-supporting PAC "Stand With Rand," or so they say | 87 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| Response to "What's a six-letter answer for 'Silent performer'?"? | 87 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| Rapper who produced the documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" | 86 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| Restaurant in Manhattan's theater district famous for the caricatures on its walls | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the hit "Konvict in Tight Fittin' Jeans"? | 86 |
| Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" | 86 |
| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |
| Reviewer on "Look Homeward, Angel": "It's overlong and clunky" | 86 |
| R&B singer arrested in 1993 for an "overly suggestive stage performance" | 86 |
| Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the album "Defying Gravity with Dr. Octagon"? | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with an extremely crunk version of "Ring of Fire"? | 86 |
| Rapper with the line "if you catch me at the border I got visas in my name" | 85 |
| Roberto who said "There must be some terrible mistake!" in his Oscar speech | 85 |
| R&B group with the 1995 #2 album "The Show, the After Party, the Hotel" | 85 |
| Rolling Stones album that features "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | 85 |
| React angrily toward (while thinking, "I'll see you in court!" perhaps) | 85 |
| Rank of Barry Sadler, the singer of "The Ballad of the Green Berets": Abbr. | 85 |
| Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 85 |
| Rand who said "A culture is made, or destroyed, by its articulate voices." | 84 |
| Roman who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 84 |
| Rapper who recently called guns "the last form of defense against tyranny" | 84 |
| Rock star who offered his help to Nixon in combating "the hippie elements" | 84 |
| Rap hit with the refrain "Got my mind on my money and my money on my mind" | 84 |
| Remington owner Victor who said "I liked it so much, I bought the company" | 84 |
| Regained one's winning status ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 84 |
| Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" | 83 |
| Repeated shout to a parent’s “You’re going to miss the school bus!” | 83 |
| Richard who played the garage attendant in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Reviewer on "Das Kapital": "Its arguments don't hold water" | 83 |
| Result of "too much change in too short a period of time" (Alvin Toffler) | 83 |
| Recently revived TV show with trivia-filled bubbles called "info nuggets" | 83 |
| Real-life death penalty opponent played by Sarandon in "Dead Man Walking" | 83 |