| Superlative qualifier added to a childish argument in hopes of eliminating any potential for a further retort (of course, anyone who's been involved in a childish argument knows that you can just add | 203 |
| Slang term for the Canadian equivalent of a 750 mL bottle of liquor, based on the number of ounces in it (which makes no sense because we use metric here but I never like to argue with drunks) | 192 |
| Suggestion uttered by Nate Dogg at the end of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" (The views and opinions expressed in this answer are not necessarily shared by The Cross Nerd Inc.) | 188 |
| Subject of an annual March 14 celebration and of this puzzle, celebrated in both a literal and a numerical way in the first square of the starred answers, reading left to right | 177 |
| Sci-fi swords (that my older brother actually got to use one time at this place but he had to sign a contract saying he wouldn't tell anyone where they're located) | 171 |
| Start of an open letter from the puzzle constructor: "Dear ___, you seem a bit confused about what the V. P. does every day, so here are some helpful hints ..." | 170 |
| Size that's usually perfect for printing crosswords, but often not for mine because I tend to write really long clues and you might need more space, for short | 162 |
| Soccer coach who said "I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's." | 157 |
| Slugger Jim who along with Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen were nicknamed "MV3" during the St. Louis Cardinals's 2004 World Series run | 146 |
| Schoolhouse Rock cartoon that begins "You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington" | 135 |
| Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
| Sitcom star who said "Putting humans in charge of the earth is the cosmic equivalence of letting Eddie Murphy direct" | 127 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| Song from "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with a title that is actually not a grammatical phrase in any Romance language | 126 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| Social reformer whose correspondence with Millard Fillmore is the subject of the book "The Lady and the President" | 124 |
| Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
| Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
| She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| Speaker of "I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick!" | 118 |
| Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |
| Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
| She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” | 118 |
| Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" | 116 |
| Solution to the classic riddle "What force or strength cannot get through, / I, with gentle touch, can do" | 116 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Singer of "Like a Surgeon" (with the lyric "I can hear your heart beat for the very last time") | 115 |
| Sextet of cancellations that produced the starred entries...or an oversexed MTV production now facing cancellation | 114 |
| Sequel that made The Onion A.V. Club's "Worst Movies of 2007" list, with a rare "F" grade | 113 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Sci-fi character who said "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever" | 111 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| Shortish documentary program, such as a "behind-the-scenes" or "making-of" segment on a DVD | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers | 110 |
| Song that starts "What'll you do when you get lonely / And nobody's waiting by your side?" | 108 |
| Song from "The Music Man" with the lyric "What words could be saner or truer or plainer" | 108 |
| Sci-fi acceleration technology (that I think I actually figured out how to make if I just had this one part) | 108 |
| Scott of "Parks and Recreation" [The AV Club goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxword.com] | 107 |
| Simple, humorous drawing (invented in the 1950s by Roger Price) that invites the viewer to guess what it is | 107 |
| Spy movie villain who says "East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other" | 106 |
| Somewhat suspect (and a hint to what can be found by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order) | 106 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Acquaintance' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 106 |
| Sci-fi translation device (that my uncle actually caught one of in his pond and one time he let me use it) | 106 |
| She replied to Noël Coward's "You look almost like a man!" with "And so do you" | 106 |
| Statesman Benjamin who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" | 105 |
| Something that gets grabbed in a friendly competition (and a group hug involving Tributes #3, #5, and #9) | 105 |
| Spin Magazine called it "the one speed metal record to buy if you're only going to buy one" | 105 |
| Surrealist who avoided the draft by writing the day's date in every space on his induction paperwork | 104 |
| Slugger Mel enshrined in the Crossword Hall of Fame (Wait, there is no such place?Well there should be!) | 104 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Discussion' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 104 |
| Serious software glitch that's certain to cause a crash or even the "blue screen of death" | 104 |
| Shape formed by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order, plus one more connection back to A | 104 |
| She supplied the speaking voice of Esmeralda in the Disney film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 103 |
| Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" | 103 |
| Speaker of the film line "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it" | 103 |
| Source of the headline "World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent," with "The" | 103 |
| Sitcom whose first episode was titled "Movin' In" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 103 |
| Star of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" | 103 |
| Spud who won the 1986 Slam Dunk Contest with a "180-degree reverse two-handed strawberry jam" | 103 |
| Somewhat derisive musical category that might include CCR, Steve Miller, The Lovin' Spoonful, etc. | 102 |
| Sequel to a 2013 3D film in which Manny Pacquiao spars in space? (Happy New Year to adolescent Jesus!) | 102 |
| Songwriter Paul who wrote the title track of Michael Jackson's last album, "This Is It" | 101 |
| Standard with the lyrics "Your eyes are always saying / the things you're never saying" | 101 |
| Source of the line "Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood ..." | 101 |
| Singer (with the Dakotas) for whom Lennon & McCartney wrote songs in the early 1960s, ___ Kramer | 101 |
| Shakespeare character who says "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth" | 101 |
| Seed containing moth larva, and what is aptly hidden in each puzzle row whose clues contain asterisks | 101 |
| Someone who wears a wide-brim hat, sunglasses, a turtleneck, jeans, and SPF 75 sunblock to the beach? | 101 |
| Sports org. whose website is in English, French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak and German | 100 |
| Subscription-based journalism site that bills itself as "the program with nothing to hide" | 100 |
| Setting for Seurat's "Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" | 99 |
| Studio behind "Gone with the Wind" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" | 99 |
| Source of the headline "Study Finds Blame Now Fastest Human Reflex," with "The" | 99 |
| She played Mrs. Garrett on both "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" | 99 |
| Setting for the iconic movie line "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 99 |
| Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
| Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 98 |
| Sitcom (as pronounced on CBS ads) that made tvsquad.com's "Worst of TV in 2010" list | 98 |
| Straight-to-video knockoff, such as "Transmorphers" or "The Da Vinci Treasure" | 98 |
| Sci-fi character whose last words are "There is ... another ... Sky ... Sky ... walker." | 98 |
| Scoreboard abbr. for the football team that plays its home games at University of Phoenix Stadium | 97 |
| Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
| She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” | 97 |
| Sci-fi stealth shields (that these two scientists at Harvard actually did figure out how to make) | 97 |
| Shortstop nicknamed "Slats" and "The Octopus" who won the 1944 N.L. MVP award | 97 |
| Sidelined by injury, in baseball lingo, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are formed | 97 |
| Show where The B-52's redid "Love Shack" as the dueling song "Glove Slap" | 97 |
| Song played at Tampa Bay Buccaneers home games, which originated in a Disney boat ride attraction | 97 |
| Small bills [alas, Ink Well ends 6/25/14 - sign up at avxword.com to get similar weekly puzzles] | 96 |
| Start of the caption to a Jim Johnson cartoon showing a woman holding a 32-oz. piece of stemware | 96 |
| Source for finding out if that was actually Courteney Cox in "Masters of the Universe" | 96 |
| Skin-tight jeans hybrid on thefrisky.com's "The Worst Fashion Trends of 2010" list | 96 |