She supplied the speaking voice of Esmeralda in the Disney film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 103 |
"Dragons' ___" (British TV series featuring entrepreneurs) | 72 |
He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Godfather Part II" | 76 |
Prefect's friend in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 72 |
Home or Office follower [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! - sign up at avxword.com] | 104 |
"Die Luft ___ Freiheit weht" (motto of Stanford University meaning "The wind of freedom blows") | 115 |
He broke Mickey's record for most games played as a Yankee on August 29, 2011 | 81 |
Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" | 85 |
He called wedlock "The most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised" | 87 |
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice" speaker | 87 |
Early production company for "I Love Lucy" and "Star Trek" | 78 |
Kiss "You know your man is working hard. He's worth a ___" | 72 |
"The ___ Made Me Buy This Dress" (Grammy-winning Flip Wilson album) | 77 |
"The ___ Went Down to Georgia" (1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit) | 72 |
Band that simultaneously released the albums "Greatest Hits" and "Greatest Misses" | 102 |
Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
Keaton, née Hall, who won the Best Actress Oscar for "Annie Hall" | 78 |
1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" | 84 |
Rapper who said, "the 'P.' was getting between me and my fans" | 80 |
Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
"If thou ___ ever thy dear father love...": "Hamlet" | 72 |
Shuffle off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible | 92 |
Woman's name heard in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 75 |
Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
"Holy Diver" rocker Ronnie James who guest-starred on South Park | 74 |
Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |
He won 26 Oscars, including an Academy Honorary Award (consisting of one full-sized and seven miniature statuettes) for the film depicted in this puzzle's starred answers | 174 |
Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." | 101 |
Statesman Benjamin who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" | 105 |
Classic song with the words "Look away! Look away! Look away!" | 72 |
"Home work" letters that appear at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 89 |
One of Skitch's successors as bandleader on "The Tonight Show" | 76 |
Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 82 |
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou ___ every act of thy life as if it were the last" (Marcus Aurelius) | 121 |
It's listed as "(annoyed grunt)" in "The Simpsons" scripts | 82 |
Cry a channel surfer might hear a few minutes after the final ticks of "60 Minutes" | 93 |
Catchphrase introduced around the same time as "don't have a cow, man" | 84 |
Cartoon exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 | 79 |
"___-in' in the Wind" (episode of "The Simpsons") | 73 |
Possible response to "You've got spinach between your teeth" | 74 |
Former Kansas senator who said "Life is very important to Americans" | 78 |
"2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
___ Nelson who on 4/7/10 became the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories | 83 |
Legendary crooner who entertained tourists wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses | 78 |
"Oh no, ___!" (certain singer's palindromic "greeting") | 79 |
"I love to detail cars, but I will ___ without a down payment" | 72 |
Game my dad refused to install on our computer in 1993 because it took up 40 megabytes | 86 |
Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
"L'Âge ___" (1930 film scripted by Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ) | 89 |
Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" | 74 |
Historian Kearns Goodwin whose work was adapted into the movie "Lincoln" | 82 |
Diana on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
"The fool ___ think he is wise..." ("As You Like It") | 73 |
"The fool __ think he is wise ...": "As You Like It" | 72 |
Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
First baseman Mientkiewicz who caught the final out of the 2004 Boston World Series victory | 91 |
"The moon is ___; I have not heard the clock": "Macbeth" | 76 |
1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit about being averse to part of a puzzle? | 77 |
Cop show that claimed "the story you are about to see is true" | 72 |
Rapper with the 3x platinum single "Hold On, We're Going Home" | 76 |
"House" and "Little House ...," but not "Full House" | 82 |
"After we delineate this sales chart, our stockholders will love us." | 79 |
Dr. whose final album (supposedly) will be the 2008 release "Detox" | 77 |
"It's like this and like that and like this and uh /___, creep to the mic like a phantom" | 103 |
Actress de Matteo who moved from "The Sopranos" to "Joey" | 77 |
"Higher and higher, straight up we'll climb" Van Halen song | 73 |
"The House of Dies ___" (Virginia Hamilton Edgar-winning mystery) | 75 |
Handyman's answer of "Boring" to the question "How's business?"? | 92 |
Villain who says "That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a pity to break it" | 94 |
Spy movie villain who says "East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other" | 106 |
Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" | 72 |
Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" | 115 |
Peter Tosh "You Don't Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs ___)" | 78 |
Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers | 88 |
Period that ends Nov. 3rd, requiring a shift, and letters that shift in this puzzle's theme entries | 103 |
Frightful-looking "Alice in Wonderland" character, with "the" | 81 |
Chase scene locale in "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," and others | 81 |
"You're the One That I Want" (song from "Grease"), e.g. | 79 |
"Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta" in "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g. | 84 |
The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit | 75 |
Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
Old detergent company that often enclosed a free drinking glass in each box | 75 |
Old brand that promised "white white washes without red hands" | 72 |
Insignificant guy (and #7 on the "Top Ten Words That Sound Romantic When Spoken By Barry White") | 106 |
Cannon who was Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" | 73 |
"___ Mak'er" (Zeppelin title that's a transliteration of "Jamaica") | 95 |
"I'm a ___!" (Rosie O'Donnell's coming-out announcement) | 78 |
Guy who wrote "Guys and Dolls" songs including nothing minor (7) | 74 |
"I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record" | 76 |
Undesirable society type depicted in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | 82 |
Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451" | 73 |
"Giving: How ___ of Us Can Change the World" (Bill Clinton book) | 74 |
Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
George who played the title character in the 2004 TV movie "Evel Knievel" | 83 |
What the blind man who thought the elephant was "like a fan" touched | 78 |