| R&B group with the 1963 chart-topper "Easier Said Than Done," with "the" | 96 |
| R&B group with the 1972 hit "Back Stabbers," with "the" | 79 |
| R&B group with the 1995 #2 album "The Show, the After Party, the Hotel" | 85 |
| R&B singer arrested in 1993 for an "overly suggestive stage performance" | 86 |
| R&B singer with "Like a Surgeon" (no relation to the Weird Al song) | 81 |
| Rabbit relatives discovered that multiply by dividing; appropriately, they're called ... | 92 |
| Race that takes a northern trail in even years and a southern trail in odd years | 80 |
| Racehorse whose 1955 Kentucky Derby win kept Nashua from taking the Triple Crown | 80 |
| Racer Protasiewicz or ex-prime minister Jaroszewicz (or a variant spelling of Tchaikovsky's first name) | 107 |
| Racer who has led the most number of laps in Indianapolis 500 history (644) | 75 |
| Radio host who said "My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life" | 101 |
| Radio host who said of U2: "These guys are from England and who gives a shit?" | 88 |
| Radio personality who said "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom" | 118 |
| Radio personality who said "I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary" | 77 |
| Radio station whose call letters include the first three letters of its Ohio city | 81 |
| Radio studio feature, and what each of this puzzle's four other longest answers literally is | 96 |
| Radiohead album that was #428 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" | 96 |
| Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Rand referenced by Rand Paul-supporting PAC "Stand With Rand," or so they say | 87 |
| Rand who said "A culture is made, or destroyed, by its articulate voices." | 84 |
| Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" | 83 |
| Randy Watson's overrated soul band, in "Coming to America" | 72 |
| Rank of Barry Sadler, the singer of "The Ballad of the Green Berets": Abbr. | 85 |
| Rank to which Capt. Nelson was promoted in "I Dream of Jeannie" | 73 |
| Rap hit with the refrain "Got my mind on my money and my money on my mind" | 84 |
| Rap/country collaboration with a Dirty South version of "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy"? | 99 |
| Rap/country collaboration with an extremely crunk version of "Ring of Fire"? | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the album "Defying Gravity with Dr. Octagon"? | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the hit "Konvict in Tight Fittin' Jeans"? | 86 |
| Rapper who dropped part of his name after 2001's "Doggy Bag" | 74 |
| Rapper who prefers a pretty large mattress, or comparable in build to fashion designer Alexander? | 97 |
| Rapper who produced the documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" | 86 |
| Rapper who recently called guns "the last form of defense against tyranny" | 84 |
| Rapper who said "My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform" | 103 |
| Rapper who said, "the 'P.' was getting between me and my fans" | 80 |
| Rapper who was the first artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time | 95 |
| Rapper with an MTV show ... whose name sounds like a word meaning "show" | 82 |
| Rapper with no plans to stick around, or a "Back to the Future" hero after hours? | 91 |
| Rapper with the 1996 nine-time platinum album "All Eyez on Me" | 72 |
| Rapper with the 3x platinum single "Hold On, We're Going Home" | 76 |
| Rapper with the line "if you catch me at the border I got visas in my name" | 85 |
| Rapper with the multi-platinum debut album "The College Dropout" | 74 |
| Rapper with the recent "Illmatic XX" twentieth-anniversary rerelease | 78 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ratt "Feel the heat of the rhythm. Feel the heat of my hand. ___" | 75 |
| Ravel's "Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé," e.g. | 72 |
| Ray Charles's backup singers pair with "Sunshine of Your Love" band? | 82 |
| Ray who said, "It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun" | 93 |
| Reach a place where the use of cellular telephones and other electronic devices is once again permitted | 103 |
| React angrily toward (while thinking, "I'll see you in court!" perhaps) | 85 |
| Real-life actor Joe who is a character in Broadway's "Jersey Boys" | 80 |
| Real-life death penalty opponent played by Sarandon in "Dead Man Walking" | 83 |
| Real-life law enforcer in the "Doctor Who" episode "The Gunfighters" | 88 |
| Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera | 79 |
| Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 | 75 |
| Real-life talk show host played by Jay Mohr on 1990s "Saturday Night Live" episodes | 93 |
| Reality TV show won by Cris Judd and Lou Diamond Phillips in its first two seasons, familiarly | 94 |
| Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? | 89 |
| Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? | 72 |
| Reasonable response to "Do you think BP is handling the oil spill adequately?" | 88 |
| Rebate, and, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue can be | 76 |
| Rebel ape in "Planet of the Apes" played by Helena Bonham Carter | 74 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| Recently revived TV show with trivia-filled bubbles called "info nuggets" | 83 |
| Reception assistant, or what you might incite if you don't perform mitzvahs? | 80 |
| Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
| Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 | 92 |
| Record label that Paul McCartney blames for the Beatles' absence on iTunes | 78 |
| Record label that released the "Tommy" and "Grease" soundtracks | 83 |
| Record label whose first release was Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" | 83 |
| Record producer who published the diary "A Year With Swollen Appendices" | 82 |
| Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid | 106 |
| Rectangular devices with a D-pad and the buttons A, B, START, and SELECT | 72 |
| Recurring movie character who "Goes to Jail," "Goes to Camp," and "Saves Christmas" | 113 |
| Red Sox catcher Carlton whose 12th-inning off-the-foul-pole home run won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 104 |
| Red Sox pitcher Bruce who was selected to be the 1986 World Series MVP just before the Mets forced Game 7 | 105 |
| Redistributionist's catchphrase ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters | 92 |
| Reed who sang "when the smack begins to flow/then I really don't care anymore" | 92 |
| Refrain lyric from "Do-Re-Mi" ("The Sound of Music") | 73 |
| Regained one's winning status ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 84 |
| Regarding Obamacare, she said "we have to pass the bill so that we can find out what is in it" | 104 |
| Reggae classic that ends "Let's get together and feel all right" | 78 |
| Reggae song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" | 80 |
| Reindeer name rhymed with Blitzen in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" | 74 |
| Rejected Supreme Court nominee whose name has become a verb meaning "attack relentlessly" | 99 |
| Relieved comment from a "Next Food Network Star" contestant when the judge likes her fowl dish? | 105 |
| 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 |
| Remington owner Victor who said "I liked it so much, I bought the company" | 84 |
| REO Speedwagon "It's time to bring this ship in to the ___" | 73 |
| Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers | 74 |
| Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | 81 |
| Repeated shout to a parent’s “You’re going to miss the school bus!” | 83 |
| 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 |
| Repetitive Brooklyn rockers with the 2008 album "Saint Dymphna" | 73 |
| Reply to "Lackaday, Lady Macbeth, what shouldst be said to the cursed dog to make it leave the castle?" | 113 |
| Reply to "Mark Antony, dost thou require any of my Spock accessories for the costume party?" | 102 |
| Reply to "Perchance, Hamlet, is this barbecue spice mix what ye seek?" | 80 |