| Company whose movies, not counting sequels, are all included in this puzzle [Circled Squares: 2009] | 99 |
| Historical figure in Isabel Allende's novel "Inés of My Soul" | 78 |
| What the supervillain reveals to Bond in great detail just before letting him escape | 84 |
| Vehicle that will fly into a mountain if you switch your phone on below cruising altitude | 89 |
| One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring | 84 |
| Founder of the first institution of higher learning in the Western world | 72 |
| River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" | 93 |
| "Yo Gabba Gabba!" character who's a "magic robot" | 73 |
| Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
| Pennsylvania baseball park that might (weirdly) host playoff baseball in 2013 | 77 |
| Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" | 84 |
| Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." | 84 |
| Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" | 102 |
| Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" | 91 |
| Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" | 77 |
| His mystery admirer didn't appear graveside to toast his birthday in 2010 for the first time since 1949 | 107 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" writer | 80 |
| "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" penner | 75 |
| "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" writer | 74 |
| "The only poor fellows in the world whom anyone will flatter": Pope | 77 |
| Comic strip character who said "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person" | 99 |
| "Egocentric little creep" of a detective, according to the author who created him | 91 |
| Game that can follow the first part of this puzzle's four longest answers | 77 |
| ___ Debevoise, Marilyn Monroe's "How to Marry a Millionaire" role | 79 |
| Home of the world's second-oldest written constitution, after America's | 79 |
| "Pride, __, and circumstance of glorious war!": "Othello" | 77 |
| "My uncle sure knows how to make an average guy feel like a ___!" | 75 |
| Parlor game, and word that can follow the last word of the answers to asterisked clues | 86 |
| "Willie and the ___ boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet" | 78 |
| Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" | 80 |
| "Big ___" (1995 single dedicated "to all the ladies in the place with style and grace") | 107 |
| Classic role played by Gérard Depardieu in "The Man in the Iron Mask" | 82 |
| Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
| Word with ''hitching'' or ''scratching'' | 72 |
| Child's word after ''one,'' ''two'' and ''three'' | 101 |
| "Elf shot the ___!" (classic line from the video game "Gauntlet") | 85 |
| Rock star who offered his help to Nixon in combating "the hippie elements" | 84 |
| "That invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff," according to Stephen King | 84 |
| "'Tis __ that pulls the country down": "Othello" | 72 |
| When most top-rated shows are on, and a hint to the kind of numbers in the starred answers | 90 |
| What "Saturday Night Live" players are not ready for, supposedly | 74 |
| Institution at which this puzzleÂ’s honoree earned a Ph.D. in mathematics | 76 |
| Invention modernized by William Bullock that mangled his leg and led to his death | 81 |
| "So what exactly are they plotting?" (highly literal TV title #5) | 75 |
| Doctor's self-employment, and a hint to the starts of the five longest across answers | 89 |
| Spots where ship passengers shout "I'm king of the world!" | 72 |
| Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" | 103 |
| He said "They call [cocaine] an epidemic now. That means white folks are doing it." | 93 |
| Whence the phrase "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep" | 73 |
| Biblical book whence the line "The meek shall inherit the earth" | 74 |
| Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
| They come after signatures in snail mail, yet before signatures in e-mail: Abbr. | 80 |
| Film with the line "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" | 80 |
| '70s-'80s network letters discussed in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" | 81 |
| One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College | 83 |
| Sports disks that can reach speeds of more than 100 miles per hour after being struck | 85 |
| Britpop band with the 1998 compilation "Freshly Squeezed ... The Early Years" | 87 |
| "Doing a crossword with a broken pencil is pointless," for example | 76 |
| ''My bike won't stand up. It's two tired,'' e.g. | 72 |
| According to Oscar Levant, it's "the lowest form of humor--when you don't think of it first" | 110 |
| Colorful title hit from a 1984 album with "Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry" | 103 |
| Word with ''aside,'' ''down'' or ''on'' | 87 |
| Word with "aside," "down," "out" or "on" | 80 |
| "And our love become a funeral ___" (lyric from the Doors' "Light My Fire") | 99 |
| "Wrong" way to spell a world leader's name in a New York Times crossword, according to a 1999 episode of "The West Wing" | 144 |
| Airline that runs a "Kangaroo Route" from Australia to the U.K. | 73 |
| Gertrude Stein's first novel, published posthumously as "Things As They Are" | 90 |
| Modern-day monarch who addresses her nation on Christmas annually, for short | 76 |
| Popular 1980s arcade game where one had to fence off a supermajority of the screen | 82 |
| "The pizza is $9.75 ... he hands the $10 off to the boy and waits for the ___" | 88 |
| "¿___ tal?" ("¿Cómo estás?" alternative) | 72 |
| ___-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson's role in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace") | 92 |
| Network seen in "The Soup" segment "Tales From Home Shopping" | 81 |
| Reception assistant, or what you might incite if you don't perform mitzvahs? | 80 |
| "Awesome!" addition to this puzzle's three longest entries | 72 |
| Only major "MASH" character played by the same actor in the film and TV series | 88 |
| It answers the question "Do you know how fast you were going?" | 72 |
| What you might reach for after hearing "Don't go anywhere!" | 73 |
| Comic who said "Adopted kids are such a pain — you have to teach them how to look like you" | 105 |
| She played Mrs. Garrett on both "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" | 99 |
| Carruth of the Carolina Panthers who was convicted of conspiring to commit murder | 81 |
| Actress Allen who won a Tony for "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" | 77 |
| "Norma ___" (cinematic union organizer whose inspiration died on September 11, 2009) | 94 |
| Something that gets grabbed in a friendly competition (and a group hug involving Tributes #3, #5, and #9) | 105 |
| George of "Night After Night" (source of this puzzle's quotes) | 76 |
| One's favorite decades old concert tee, in the eye's of one's wife | 78 |
| PLAYGIRL, soft-hearted, huggable. Red hair, brown eyes, great smile. Loves kids ... | 83 |
| Cheer ending the first name of each of this puzzle's featured ladies | 72 |
| Korean heartthrob with the singles "I'm Coming" and "Inside of You" | 91 |
| 1988 Best Picture, with the repeated line "I'm an excellent driver" | 81 |
| From 1988 to 1999, a record 856 consecutive games were played in Dodger Stadium without one | 91 |
| "A ___ In The Sun" (first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway) | 93 |
| Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is set at the end of it | 73 |
| British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins | 81 |
| Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." | 74 |
| Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" | 77 |
| Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama | 113 |
| Pharmaceutical company budget line generally dwarfed by ad expenditures: Abbr. | 78 |