| "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" writer Bombeck | 75 |
| "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" author Bombeck | 72 |
| "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" writer Bombeck | 73 |
| "All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room" author Bombeck | 101 |
| "When I throw rocks at seabirds, I leave no ___ unstoned": Ogden Nash | 79 |
| "Ol' Rockin' ___" (bin-mate of the 1957 album "Ford Favorites") | 91 |
| Recurring movie character who "Goes to Jail," "Goes to Camp," and "Saves Christmas" | 113 |
| ___ J. Gaines, who wrote "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | 75 |
| He sings "Rubber Duckie, you're the one / You make bath time lots of fun" | 87 |
| He said, "I can't hear you, Bert, I've got a banana in my ear" | 80 |
| Bert and __ ("Sesame Street" regulars or two characters in "It's a Wonderful Life") | 107 |
| "Journey to ___" (recurring "Sesame Street" segment) | 72 |
| ___ Erdai (character in Scott Turow's "Reversible Errors") | 72 |
| The Boston Symphony played its second movement to commemorate FDR's death | 77 |
| Symphony whose second movement is marked "Marcia funebre. Adagio assai" | 81 |
| What computers repeat out loud while shooting sparks, in old sci-fi movies | 74 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| "The even mead, that ___ brought sweetly forth ...": "Henry V" | 82 |
| "The even mead, that __ brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip": "Henry V" | 100 |
| He designed costumes for "Così fan tutte" at Paris's Opéra-Comique in 1952 | 94 |
| Artist's pseudonym formed from the French pronunciation of his initials | 75 |
| Physicist Schrödinger with a famous theoretical half-dead/half-alive cat | 75 |
| "___ Wood would saw wood ..." (part of a classic tongue twister) | 74 |
| Leave that asshole zookeeper behind forever, provided you can find a way into the sewer | 87 |
| Actual title of the 1979 #1 hit known as "The Piña Colada Song" | 76 |
| Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" | 74 |
| "... folks dressed up like ___" ("The Christmas Song") | 74 |
| Salinger character who says, "I'm extremely interested in squalor" | 80 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| "The Vanishing Act of ___ Lennox" (2006 Maggie O'Farrell book) | 76 |
| "Nine Stories" girl who says "I'm extremely interested in squalor" | 90 |
| __ Squalor, Count Olaf's girlfriend in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| 1962 hit with the lyric "Like the samba sound, my heart begins to pound" | 82 |
| 1962 hit in which the background singers repeat "The bossa nova" many times | 85 |
| Nickname for hockey legend Phil that's one letter away from a network that might use it | 91 |
| Hockey legend with the record for most shots on goal in one season, for short | 77 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| First of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 79 |
| "A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley | 88 |
| "Emollit mores nec sinit ___ feros" (motto of the University of South Carolina meaning "Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel") | 173 |
| "Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York" author Thomas Von ___ | 100 |
| Whaleship that's the subject of the book "In the Heart of the Sea" | 80 |
| R&B group with the 1963 chart-topper "Easier Said Than Done," with "the" | 96 |
| "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939 Bette Davis film) | 74 |
| Brand named after the pronunciation of its parent company's initials | 72 |
| "The gasoline that stops cool weather stalling" in old commercials | 76 |
| Guess, in brief (and what's been added to this puzzle's longest answers) | 80 |
| "¿Dónde en el Mundo ___ Carmen Sandiego?" (Univision cartoon show) | 82 |
| She was actually a year younger than Bea, despite playing her mother on TV | 74 |
| Book that says "Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes" | 85 |
| "Waka Waka (___ es Ãfrica)" (official song for the 2010 World Cup) | 79 |
| "The Three Burials of Melquiades ___" (2005 Tommy Lee Jones film) | 75 |
| Guess about an Airbus: Abbr. [thanks for solving Ink Well! Goodbye! Solve my puzzles hence at avxwords.com] | 107 |
| "L'___, c'est moi" (self-important slogan ascribed to Louis XIV) | 82 |
| Figs. that always seem to get pushed back when you're in a rush at the airport | 82 |
| Setting for Seurat's "Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" | 99 |
| "Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (___)" (Gustave Courbet painting) | 82 |
| "Mars's armour, forg'd for proof ___...": "Hamlet" | 78 |
| "As if you could kill time without injuring ___": Thoreau, "Walden" | 87 |
| "___ was in our lips and eyes": "Antony and Cleopatra" | 74 |
| Rock photographer Russell who shot the cover for "Who's Next?" | 76 |
| ___ Hunt, Tom Cruise's character in "Mission: Impossible" films | 77 |
| Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15] | 90 |
| Senate committee that censures its members for screwing interns and such | 72 |
| Professional responsibility committee's forte, after "legal" | 74 |
| Image in the final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 84 |
| Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 75 |
| Where the Trinity College scenes in "Chariots of Fire" were shot | 74 |
| Where the "Chariots of Fire" Trinity College footrace scene was filmed | 80 |
| British school from which Dominic West of "The Wire" graduated | 72 |
| "Le Foyer des artistes - La Difficulté d'___" (Jean Cocteau criticism) | 87 |
| Most of the characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 78 |
| Words of reproach, and a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers are formed | 79 |
| Famous last words (and homophonically, a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 73 |
| Beginning of the line that precedes "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" | 82 |
| Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character | 92 |
| Blake, the first African-American to write and direct a Broadway musical | 72 |
| Mathematician who introduced the symbol e for the base of natural logarithms | 76 |
| Band with the lyric "We're heading for Venus, and still we stand tall" | 84 |
| "I grew up in ___, where the history comes from" (Eddie Izzard) | 73 |
| Frequent panelist of "Match Game" who was one of three actress sisters | 80 |
| "Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once" quipper | 83 |
| "___ Final Broadcast" (Broadway song with the lyric "Don't cry for me, Argentina") | 106 |
| "___ Final Broadcast" (song by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) | 74 |
| "___ Final Broadcast" (Broadway song sung by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin) | 87 |
| "riverrun, past ___ and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay": James Joyce | 95 |
| "___ Knievel To Attempt Huge Leap In Logic" ("The Onion" headline) | 86 |
| Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length | 73 |
| J. Geils: "You're Gettin' ___ While I'm Gettin' Odd" | 78 |
| 311 "You're cruisin', don't ___ care about what you're losing" | 88 |
| Word with ''when,'' ''what'' or ''who'' | 87 |
| "You ___ seen a grown man naked?" (classic "Airplane!" line) | 80 |
| "We Are Never ___ Getting Back Together" (#1 song for Taylor Swift) | 77 |
| ''For,'' ''how'' or ''what'' ending | 83 |
| Activist who said "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea" | 79 |
| It "is easy, and has infinite forms," according to Blaise Pascal | 74 |
| "Who knows what ___ lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" | 76 |
| Musical in which Madonna set a Guinness World Record for "Most costume changes in a film" | 99 |
| Best Musical the year "Children of a Lesser God" was Best Play | 72 |
| 1979 Broadway hit with the song "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" | 77 |