| Tiny bit (NOTE: The hidden generals in last week's puzzle were: (North) Grant, Sher-idan, Meade, Cus-ter, Burns-ide, Sherman, and Hook-er; and (South) For-rest, Early, Pic-kett, Stu-art, Longs-treet, | 204 |
| This, for example: "Some traffic jam, huh?" "Yeah." "How long we been here?" "Too long!" " 'Rush hour' ... go figure." | 176 |
| Trial for a car [NOTE: My online solve-at-home crossword contest is TODAY AT 3 P.M. ET (Sunday, 9/30/12). First prize is $2,500. For details, visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 165 |
| TV jargon term for Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" and others, in which all of the action takes place on a single set with only a few characters | 162 |
| Trains, in a way, and the key to 18 of this puzzle's black squares. (Ones that begin with the keyword are asterisked. The others are for you to discover.) | 158 |
| Taylor Swift song that contains the line, "Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer" | 150 |
| Today, I tried to put a self-effacing three-letter acronym inside each theme entry. Turns out it works in any order except the one I want. ___ | 142 |
| The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain | 136 |
| The Peck and Snyder Company pioneered the use of ___ as advertising tools to sell a) candy; b) beverages; c) tobacco; d) sporting goods | 135 |
| The state of New York might make you get one after you were on a plane back from Hong Kong with this guy who couldn't stop coughing | 135 |
| TV show whose working title was "Please Stand By" (and what you'll have to cross 18 times when solving this puzzle) | 129 |
| Title words following "don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm just not concerned," in a 1966-'67 hit | 126 |
| The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, who was never known as the modest type, is the only U.S. president ever to give an inaugural address ... | 124 |
| Theme #2 (Bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum), with "the" | 121 |
| The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
| Today, to Caesar—and a hint to the hidden word appearing in this puzzle 15 times (including the one in this answer) | 119 |
| The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 117 |
| The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 116 |
| The sculpture "Kryptos," which has never been fully deciphered, stands at its main entrance and courtyard | 115 |
| The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 115 |
| Tone-Loc and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, e.g. ... or how this puzzle's theme entries might be described? | 112 |
| Triatomic gas in a thinning layer ... and, symbolically, what appears in this puzzle's four longest answers | 111 |
| Thomas who was "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination" | 111 |
| The 2005-06 season was the first since 1950-51 in which this type of show wasn't among Nielsen's top 10 | 111 |
| TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows" | 110 |
| There is an important one spelled out by the last characters of this puzzle's clues, starting from the top | 110 |
| Tycoon who said "A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure" | 110 |
| Theme answer count, amount of letters in each, word hidden in each, and, when repeated twice, today's date | 110 |
| The Library's Periodicals Room was the source of most of the excerpted material in the first issue of ___ | 109 |
| Type of waveform that gets its name from its resemblance to the serrations on a woodworker's cutting tool | 109 |
| TV show that gave us the classic line "I love it when a plan comes together," with "The" | 108 |
| TV theme composer Hagen (he's also the one whistling at the start of "The Andy Griffith Show") | 108 |
| The only "Celebrity Apprentice" participant to appear on a previous "Apprentice" season | 107 |
| Timepiece that's bound to last forever (and it might as well be free with the deal you're getting!) | 107 |
| Tools for ESP researchers (whose symbols are found at the ends of the answers to the five asterisked clues) | 107 |
| TV show with episodes titled "Viva Las Vegas" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?" | 106 |
| The artist ___ wrote a four-book treatise on a) human proportions; b) botany; c) choral music; d) theology | 106 |
| TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" | 106 |
| Tom's costar in "Days of Thunder," "Far and Away," and "Eyes Wide Shut" | 105 |
| Tipper Gore org. that placed "Darling Nikki" and "She Bop" on its Filthy Fifteen list | 105 |
| Text adventure with the classic line "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." | 105 |
| TV character who said "I wasn't known on Melmac as the whiz kid for my scholastic ability" | 104 |
| This animal presumably spends its entire life in a shell ... correction: just the first part of its life | 104 |
| The only person to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize | 103 |
| Title heroine who says "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 101 |
| Texter's "it's a secret" shorthand spelled out by the starts of four puzzle answers | 101 |
| Test subject #4 perceives A and C as blue, B and D as orange, 1 and 2 as red; maybe she rides the ... | 101 |
| Technology at issue in the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal Studios, Inc. | 100 |
| The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers | 100 |
| Todd Snider "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing, Republican, Straight, White American ___" | 100 |
| There are four hidden in this puzzle, which together suggest a familiar five-word saying (3,5,4,2,4) | 100 |
| TV show with the catchphrase "I love it when a plan comes together," with "The" | 99 |
| Teacher's comment that she maybe might write near sentences sort of like this current clue here | 99 |
| Title heroine described in the first sentence of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" | 99 |
| Trump who authored "The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again" | 99 |
| TV show on which Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances with 110 | 99 |
| Tackle box item turned hair accessory that was one of Yahoo!'s "Worst Trends of 2011" | 99 |
| Twice Oscar-nominated actress for "Camille Claudel" and "The Story of Adele H." | 99 |
| Term from astrophysics that describes the stretching of objects in very strong gravitational fields | 99 |
| TV show inspired by the 1975 New York magazine article "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet" | 99 |
| This weekend's fridge contents, probably, and what's missing from five long puzzle answers? | 99 |
| The ___ (nickname for each season's recurring villain on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") | 98 |
| Titular musical character who wants to "taste the Roaring Twenties" before settling down | 98 |
| There are eight of these before "baby" in Elvis's "A Big Hunk o' Love" | 98 |
| The world's largest ..., prepared in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, required four gallons of relish | 98 |
| TV neighbor who said "I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!" | 97 |
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 97 |
| Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 97 |
| The Arcade Fire's "___ année sans lumière" ("A Year Without Light") | 97 |
| Tatyana of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," or a later role for the Fresh Prince himself | 96 |
| Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" | 96 |
| Thing that might be upset ... and what is "upset" in this puzzle's scrambled theme | 96 |
| The world's largest ..., in Coleman, Alberta, is used to raise money by the Lions of Coleman | 96 |
| The handle of Charles Dickens's ivory letter opener, in the Library's collection, is ___ | 96 |
| The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner | 96 |
| Time leading up to doing whatever you want (as screamed on "Golf Course Braveheart")? | 95 |
| Tony Nelson: "What's another word for 'toilet'?" Jeannie: "___" | 95 |
| Talk radio personality with the comedy album "One Sacred Chicken to Go With Anthrax" | 94 |
| TV series that originally had the redundant "Navy" in its title for the first season | 94 |
| Twins player with the team's all-time highest single-season batting average (.388 in 1977) | 94 |
| The only recipient of Sports Illustrated's "Sportswoman of the Year" (from 1976) | 94 |
| Theoretical terrorist's theoretical threat that we should probably go crazy worrying about | 94 |
| Team that plays "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" during the seventh inning stretch | 93 |
| They're not in the in-crowd ... and read differently, what each starred answer has two of | 93 |
| Transit vehicle through which the crime was "witnessed" in "12 Angry Men" | 93 |
| Title word in a song that begins, "Some think the world is made for fun and frolic" | 93 |
| Title of a crossword with theme answers like OVERHAND KNOT, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, and CRAWL SPACE | 93 |
| Title land that "sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low," in a James Taylor song | 92 |
| The world's largest ..., in St. Albert, Alberta, does not have a similarly scaled birdie | 92 |
| The last cast member to sign on for the "Arrested Development" reunion, supposedly | 92 |
| Type of worker theorized to have built the Death Star, according to a "Clerks" bit | 92 |
| Three-time All-Star pitcher Johnny who threw the first major league pitch to Jackie Robinson | 92 |
| Technique used to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ... or an alternate name for this puzzle | 92 |
| TV character who was a role model to the first African-American female astronaut Mae Jemison | 92 |
| These occur—symbolically—at this puzzle's six circled "intersections" | 91 |
| Title words before "Easy" for Linda Ronstadt and "Hard" for John Lennon | 91 |
| The only woman on Time's list of the 20 most influential 20th-century business geniuses | 91 |
| Tic-Tac-Toe line after using the rare cheat rule that changes one of your opponents squares | 91 |
| Thing offered every time you go home even though you've been a vegetarian for years now | 91 |