| Cable channel that airs reruns of "Press Your Luck," for short | 72 |
| Cable network concerned with feminist movements between France and Great Britain? | 81 |
| Cackling cry from a mad scientist before unleashing havoc on southern California? | 81 |
| California city that was the longtime host of the World's Wristwrestling Championship | 89 |
| California governor Gray whom Cybill Shepherd called "a good kisser" | 78 |
| California locale where "Maria Maria" fell in love, in a Santana hit | 78 |
| California team [and 18 letters in the grid to circle ... and then connect using three lines] | 93 |
| California's self-proclaimed "Zinfandel Capital of the World" | 75 |
| California's ___ Valley, known as "America's salad bowl" | 74 |
| California-based semiconductor company founded in 1981 (hidden in FALSIFY) | 74 |
| Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day? | 82 |
| Calle ___ (main drag in Miami's "Little Havana," literally "8th Street") | 96 |
| Calvin Coolidge lived up to his reputation as a man of few words when he ... | 76 |
| Camaros like the one Ryan Holt used to gun in the parking lot during my 8th period math class | 93 |
| Cambridge U.; renter; diamond club; X; six-footer; one who might enter a pool; that lady; loner; snowball gripper | 113 |
| Cameron of "Growing Pains" and "Left Behind: The Movie" | 75 |
| Campaign about which Rumsfeld said in 2003 "it could last six days, six weeks - I doubt six months" | 109 |
| Campaigner's contest (or the start of a 1930s movie actor's split personality) | 86 |
| Campbell who captained the Canadian women's hockey team to gold in 2002 and 2006 | 84 |
| Campus radio log, Monday: Iggy airs cubic-zirconia infomercial in response to requests for ... | 94 |
| Canadian figure skater Elvis who won silver at the Lillehammer and Nagano Olympics | 82 |
| Cancelled 2007 CBS dramedy that "comes close" to being "the worst show in the history of television," according to the New York Times | 153 |
| Cannabinoid agonist responsible for many a vapid philosophical discussion | 73 |
| Cannon who was Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" | 73 |
| Canonized monk who introduced the custom of dating events from the birth of Christ | 82 |
| Capital of the country that's alphabetically first in the United Nations | 76 |
| Capital of the Netherlands' South Holland province, with "The" | 76 |
| Capital whose name comes from an Algonquin word for "to trade" | 72 |
| Captain who says "Well, gentlemen, between ourselves and home are 27,000 sea miles" | 93 |
| Car that George buys, thinking it was once owned by Jon Voight, on "Seinfeld" | 87 |
| Car that's "really lookin' fine," in a 1960's song | 72 |
| Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times) | 85 |
| Carol sung by Ginger and Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island"? | 73 |
| Carolina river that was Foster's original choice for "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" | 99 |
| Carpet cleaning device with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a ..." | 75 |
| Carroll critter that "frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea" | 78 |
| Carruth of the Carolina Panthers who was convicted of conspiring to commit murder | 81 |
| Cartoon character played by Leslie Nielsen in a 1997 live-action adaptation | 75 |
| Cartoon character that was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon | 79 |
| Cartoon character who said "What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?" | 108 |
| Cartoon character whose debut film was "Golddiggers of '49" | 73 |
| Cartoon exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 | 79 |
| Cartoon whose guest voices have included Leonard Nimoy, Al Gore and Beck | 72 |
| Cartoonist who said "I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly" | 147 |
| Cartoony yell if your butt's on fire and you're running in circles | 74 |
| Casey who provided Shaggy's voice in TV's "Scooby-Doo" | 72 |
| Casey who said, "I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking uptempo record every time I do a goddamn death dedication!" | 169 |
| Cassini who said "To be well dressed is a little like being in love" | 78 |
| Casual, noncompetitive curling tournament (sorry, this might be a local thing, I don't know...) | 99 |
| Catalan composer ___ Nunó, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem | 81 |
| Catalog for polygamists on "Big Love" [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! Email bentausig@gmail.com for info] | 138 |
| Catcher Buck ___, elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in its first year | 74 |
| Catcher Carlton __, who famously homered to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 79 |
| Catching one in a dream means you should be wary of bad company, supposedly | 75 |
| Catchphrase introduced around the same time as "don't have a cow, man" | 84 |
| Cause a sensation, or what the first words of the answers to starred entries may do | 83 |
| Caveman 1: "I just thought of a new invention. I call it 'juice'. Hand me those purple things."Caveman 2: "___?" | 140 |
| César of fancy hotels [subscribe to great weekly puzzles at avxwords.com] | 76 |
| Celeb in "The First Wives Club" with the cameo line "Remember girls, don't get mad, get everything" | 123 |
| Celebrity chef and host of the Food Network's "Boy Meets Grill" | 77 |
| Celebrity chef Matsuhisa who had cameos in "Casino" and "Goldmember" | 88 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #1: "Button-Down Mind" comedian and syndicated advice columnist | 99 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #2: "Roseanne" co-star and "Cheers" actor | 87 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #3: "Toxic" singer and Stooges frontman | 75 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #4: "Cheers" actor and "U.N.I.T.Y." rapper | 88 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #5: Kate Hudson's mother and a "Meet the Fockers" father | 96 |
| Celebrity mentioned in Warren Zevon's 1978 hit "Werewolves of London" | 83 |
| Cereal for people with good fortune during a fictional "Simpsons" month? | 82 |
| Cereal that once offered a radiation-detecting ring as part of a box top promotion | 82 |
| Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer | 80 |
| Certain filings, and what happens literally in six of this puzzle's answers | 79 |
| Certain NASA equipment ... shown literally in the solution to this puzzle | 73 |
| Certain sporting equipment (especially useful for keeping the old heart in shape) | 81 |
| Certification requirement from the American Turntablist's Association? | 74 |
| Chairman who said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" | 78 |
| Chairman you shouldn't carry pictures of if you want to make it with anyone, per Lennon | 91 |
| Change the condition of a fish part? (and three words that can follow BLUE and RED, but not WHITE) | 98 |
| Channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight, with "the" | 76 |
| Channel champ with a 24-year record that Chadwick's challenge changed | 73 |
| Channel with programming such as "The Real Lunch Ladies of Lincoln Middle School"? | 92 |
| Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
| Character actor who played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," 1951 | 73 |
| Character in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" | 72 |
| Character in "The Godfather" who "sleeps with the fishes" | 77 |
| Character in "The Producers" who sings "I Wanna Be a Producer" | 82 |
| Character in Chesterton's "What's Wrong With the World" | 73 |
| Character in the comic strip "Garfield," "Hi and Lois," or "Nancy" | 96 |
| Character voiced by Demi Moore in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 73 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| Character who made his debut in the 1945 cartoon "Hare Trigger" | 73 |
| Character who runs around in a dark room munching yellow pills while repetitive electronic music plays | 102 |
| Character who said "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 84 |
| Character who says "talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee." | 101 |
| Character who shared a cameo with Tinkerbell in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" | 83 |
| Character who sings "She's a super King Kamehameha bee-yotch" | 75 |
| Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers | 121 |
| Character whose last words are "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." | 93 |
| Characteristic of ''fat'' but not ''fate'' | 74 |
| Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film | 92 |
| Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |