| "Higher, higher, to the left a smidge, that's it!" follower | 73 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| "Dog the Bounty Hunter" network, and a hint to the theme in this puzzle's four longest answers | 108 |
| "Breaking Bad" star ___ Paul, who won his third Emmy on August 25th | 77 |
| Organization whose members are at least halfway toward becoming centenarians | 76 |
| Org. with the Sullivan Award for character, leadership and sportsmanship | 72 |
| "What Do You Do With ___ in English?" ("Avenue Q" song) | 75 |
| "What Do You Do With ____ in English?" ("Avenue Q" song) | 76 |
| "Avenue Q" song, "What Do You Do with ___ in English?" | 74 |
| Quartet that broke out in spring 1972, and the scheme of this puzzle's theme | 80 |
| Pop group whose first Top 40 album was, appropriately, "Arrival" | 74 |
| "___ Gold," 1992 album that has sold 28 million copies worldwide | 74 |
| "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" singer in "The Sound of Music" | 77 |
| "6. I was mildly disappointed when I walked down ___ Road in London.I wanted it to be more magical, I guess" | 118 |
| Will's rabbit brother in Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" strip | 79 |
| Simpson who said: "Grass today is sharper than when I was a boy" | 74 |
| Nickname of the man (born 2/12/1809) who gave the address at 18A, issued the 28A/45A, was the first elected president of the 60A Party, and whose name can be found in this puzzle's main diagonal | 198 |
| "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" librettist Burrows | 79 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| British sitcom with the theme song "This Wheel's on Fire," familiarly | 83 |
| '90s Britcom whose theme song is "This Wheel's on Fire" | 73 |
| "Million Dollar ___" (2006 "Simpsons" episode featuring Homer's dad) | 92 |
| "___ Baby" (song that begin "Yes I's finished on y'all farm land with yo' boll weevils and all") | 128 |
| "Hair" song with the lyrics "four score and seven years ago" | 80 |
| "It's not ___ truck. It's a series of tubes" (Senator Ted Stevens describing the internet) | 108 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front | 74 |
| Blood-typing letters, and a hint to the "transfusions" in this puzzle | 79 |
| Place to live (different ones are hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 83 |
| "Ghosts of the ___" (James Cameron documentary about the Titanic) | 75 |
| Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" | 79 |
| Band with the second-highest-selling album of all time (behind "Thriller") | 84 |
| 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 |
| "___ Off the Old Tooth" ("Alvin & the Chipmunks" episode) | 81 |
| Classic Dickens title (from whose 10 letters this puzzle was constructed) | 73 |
| End of the count at the beginning of Kraftwerk's "Numbers" | 72 |
| Org. with the motto "Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself" | 72 |
| Gp. of which Michael Dukakis was proud to be a "card-carrying member" | 79 |
| Fictional manufacturer of disintegrating pistols and jet-propelled unicycles | 76 |
| Fictional corporation that supplied rocket-powered roller skates and jet-propelled pogo sticks | 94 |
| Squirrel's staple [don't miss great indie puzzles from avxwords.com! subscribe today!] | 94 |
| Whence "Nothing will come of nothing" in "King Lear" | 72 |
| When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 83 |
| When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon" | 72 |
| When Jaques says, "All the world's a stage" in "As You Like It" | 87 |
| Words with ''good faith'' or ''self-defense'' | 77 |
| When ''eye of newt'' is mentioned in ''Macbeth'' | 80 |
| When the witches in "Macbeth" say "Double, double toil and trouble" | 87 |
| When the line "Double, double toil and trouble" is delivered in "Macbeth" | 93 |
| When Othello says to Desdemona, "... would thou hadst ne'er been born!" | 85 |
| In "Macbeth," it starts with the line "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd" | 97 |
| "We'll tak ___ o' kindness yet" (line from "Auld Lang Syne") | 88 |
| ___ accent, mark used symmetrically six times in this puzzle's solution | 75 |
| 1969 literary heroine who says "I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand" | 133 |
| "Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies" Nabokov girl | 78 |
| ___ Quonsett (Oscar-winning role for Helen Hayes in "Airport") | 72 |
| Proverb containing wisdom almost certainly contradicted by some other proverb | 77 |
| Gilbert ___, author of "A Void," a 290-page novel without the letter E | 80 |
| Firefighter Red, inspiration for John Wayne's "Hellfighters" | 74 |
| Scott of "Parks and Recreation" [The AV Club goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxword.com] | 107 |
| Dunn who set an American League record by striking out 222 times in 2012 | 72 |
| The only U.S. president whose vice president ran against him to succeed him was John .... | 89 |
| He called the U.S. vice presidency a "most insignificant office" | 74 |
| 1949 comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposing sides of a murder case | 77 |
| Words with ''remember'' or ''celebrate'' | 72 |
| Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 72 |
| Confuse—or what to do to four common phrases to form this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| First female singer to have three different singles in Billboard's Top 10 at one time | 89 |
| Sarah McLachlan song that says "I do believe I've failed you" | 75 |
| Org. founded in 1913 "to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens" | 143 |
| Alfred who broke with Freud to focus on "individual psychology" | 73 |
| What swing state viewers might experience as the presidential election draws closer, punnily, or a possible title for this week's puzzle? | 141 |
| ___ Annie (singer of "I Cain't Say No" in "Oklahoma!") | 78 |
| ___ Annie (girl who "cain't say no" in "Oklahoma!") | 75 |
| "Outside of ___, a book is man's best friend ..." (Groucho Marx) | 78 |
| " .... inside of ___ it's too dark to read" (Groucho Marx punchline) | 82 |
| He was satirized by the character Adenoid in "The Great Dictator" | 75 |
| Vikings running back Peterson who holds the NFL record for yards rushed in a single game | 88 |
| Whence the line "Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts" | 84 |
| Prefix with ''ballistics'' or ''magnetic'' | 74 |
| Prefix with ''ballistic'' or ''dynamic'' | 72 |
| Source of the saying "The gods help them that help themselves" | 72 |
| "__ & Son": "The Bullwinkle Show" feature involving morality tales | 90 |
| "Bearing gifts, we traverse __": "We Three Kings" lyric | 75 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| "Is this __ time ... to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?": Sterne | 75 |
| "Here, __ Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift": "The Tempest" | 80 |
| Houses with sharply angled roofs, and what this puzzle's four longest answers literally have in common | 106 |
| #1 hit that was preceded and succeeded by Men At Works "Down Under" | 77 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| "Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's __ ...": Rolling Stones lyric | 73 |
| Christie who wrote a mystery novel about bridge (but presumably never closed one on purpose to be a dick) | 105 |
| "___ is an issue of mind over matter.If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." (Mark Twain) | 106 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| Wordplay expert Jon who wrote the spoonerism book "Smart Feller Fart Smeller" | 87 |
| Only outfielder besides Winfield to win Gold Gloves in both leagues in the 1900s | 80 |
| N.L. outfielder who won a Gold Glove in 1970 along with Clemente and Rose | 73 |
| James with the ironically titled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" | 73 |
| Former CIA agent Philip who wrote the 1987 memoir "On the Run" | 72 |
| First of three Mets to hit a lead-off home run in a World Series Game 3 (he did it in '69, Garrett in '73, and Dykstra in '86) | 138 |