"If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct ___ in diction" ("Anything Goes" lyric) | 112 |
Union perk found in the answer to each clue that's followed by a number | 75 |
"Mother" and leader of the American Shakers that spoke in tongues, born 2/29/1736 | 91 |
"Under ___, whose antique root peeps out..." ("As You Like It") | 83 |
Eugene's violin piece, recorded on the D-Day beaches, was known as "___" | 86 |
She received a Best Actress nomination for "A Man and a Woman" | 72 |
What the self-contradictory words found in this puzzle's theme answers are examples of | 90 |
"I'll climb on your kitchen countertop, if it makes you feel alright..." | 86 |
Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
Disposition to credulity (and the longest common word that alternates typing hands) | 83 |
"Is Anybody Goin' to San ___?" (1970 #1 country hit for Charley Pride) | 84 |
"General Hospital" and "Melrose Place" actor, born 2/29/1972 | 80 |
Picking the right brown pigment is like playing the lottery -- you've just got to choose ___ | 96 |
"Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My ___" ("South Park" episode) | 87 |
"Little Bo Peep," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or the like | 75 |
"At age 8 he got interested in some weird kind of street music, which I hoped would be ___ ..." | 105 |
"The Man Without ___" (2002 nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) | 77 |
Director of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "This Is 40" | 73 |
One of the things "I've been" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
"I Got ___" (silly children's song with the line "Why is everyone laughing at me?") | 107 |
Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Acquaintance' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 106 |
Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
Pithy sayings (four well-known ones containing the circled word are the keys to unlocking this puzzle's theme) | 114 |
"Or would you rather be ___?" (from "Swinging on a Star") | 77 |
"I would give all my fame for ___ of ale" ("King Henry V") | 78 |
Attempts to get a higher court to overturn one's espionage conviction? | 74 |
Thing that might be upset ... and what is "upset" in this puzzle's scrambled theme | 96 |
Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 78 |
Indie rock band whose "The Suburbs" was the Grammys' 2010 Album of the Year | 89 |
Comics character who is 65 years old this month (and whose friends are answers to asterisked clues) | 99 |
First and only fictional group to have a #1 hit song, with "The" | 74 |
___ Observatory, home of the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope | 80 |
Scholars believe that "A Musical Joke" by Mystery Person was ... | 74 |
Trendy cosmetic ingredient traditionally produced using nut-eating goats | 72 |
It's the end of the world!...or, the country home to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world | 100 |
French forest region that was the site of the final offensive of World War I | 76 |
Portuguese term meaning "suspects" brought up in the 2007 Madeleine McCann disappearance case | 103 |
Richards who played Lex Murphy in the first two "Jurassic Park" movies | 80 |
Huffington who said "There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear" | 90 |
Huffington who is #12 on Forbes' "Most Influential Women in Media" | 80 |
"You can get anything you want ..." opens the chorus of his most famous song | 86 |
Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
"Aux ___, citoyens" (rallying cry in "La Marseillaise") | 75 |
Picnic food with a classic jingle asking "what kind of kids eat" them | 79 |
Where a dog-walker might go (and where a message is hidden in this puzzle) | 74 |
The Donald declared him the winner of 2012's "Celebrity Apprentice" | 81 |
Talk show host on the current season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" | 76 |
"Abstract ___ product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered" (Al Capp) | 111 |
Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
Part of the Constitution that deals with judicial powers and defines treason | 76 |
NFL Hall of Fame receiver who is first cousins once removed with jazz legend Thelonious | 87 |
Botanist who arranged "On the Origin of Species" to be published in the States | 88 |
She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "A Passage to India" | 76 |
Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" | 86 |
"After the maid cleans out the ___ ___ going to polish the fireplace doors" | 85 |
"We'll give it ___" ("Livin' on a Prayer" lyric) | 76 |
Classic 1890's song that ends "Sailor take care! ... Beware!" | 75 |
Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
"There's a new sheriff in town. And he has an army of ___." | 73 |
Out of whack, or what's featured in each of this puzzle's theme answers | 79 |
"Opinions are like ___, everyone's got one and they all think everyone else's stink" | 102 |
... using ___: “Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice” | 78 |
Movie that may be remade again with Beyonce in the Gaynor/Garland/Streisand role | 80 |
1937 Best Picture nominee (and what you might shout after finishing this puzzle) | 80 |
" . . . swine ran violently down ___ place . . . ": Matt. 8:32 | 72 |
Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
Song originally from the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome" | 77 |
Stadium billed as "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon opening in 1965 | 77 |
"He walked amongst the Trial Men in ___ of shabby grey": Wilde | 72 |
Where the student who couldn’t decide between prelaw and premed was found? | 81 |
Mixed drink #2: A video-game themed communiqué (tequila, citrus juice, liqueur, and salt) | 92 |
The Coasters' record label (coincidentally, all its letters appear in their name) | 85 |
"___ cheeseburger and just kept getting bigger" (U2 line about Elvis) | 79 |
1959 hit with the lyric "One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad" | 83 |
"Lisa Bonet ___ basil" (lyric from Weird Al's palindromic "Bob") | 88 |
"Hark, hark! the lark ___ sings": "Cymbeline" [1943 novel] | 78 |
"Feliz cumpleaños ___" ("Happy Birthday To You," in Spanish) | 83 |
What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me | 94 |
1982 George Clinton song sampled for Snoop's "What's My Name?" | 80 |
Do a quick Erev Yom Kippur, show your face for Kol Nidre, no muss no fuss? | 74 |
Fundraisers where Federer and Nadal sell Rice Krispies Treats and upside-down cake? | 83 |
"It's ___!" ("Family Guy" parody of "Return of the Jedi") | 91 |
Where the smart set sat [answer to be entered in the appropriate manner] | 72 |
Where to keep those rags and machines hummin', according to a Rose Royce song | 81 |
Dancer Ailey, in his upstate New York home (as screamed on "Chipmunk Day Afternoon")? | 95 |
"Like ___ train up your spine" (Pink Floyd, "Cymbaline") | 76 |
"I just don't know why they're shooting __": Hawkeye Pierce | 77 |
"Do you bite your thumb __, sir?": "Romeo and Juliet" | 73 |
Home of Sky Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere | 81 |
What the disappointed fan said after Rome's first emperor sang "Yesterday"? | 89 |
"Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet" theologian | 73 |
___ Shinrikyo (Japanese group that carried out a 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo) | 76 |
"Drown in ___ of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?" (W.C. Fields) | 77 |
"___, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!": "King John" | 76 |
"Poverty is ___ that obscures the face of greatness" (Kahlil Gibran) | 78 |
Hit Broadway musical with the song "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today" | 82 |
"The mind is not ___ to be filled, but a fire to be kindled" (Plutarch) | 81 |
"Caesar, now be still: / I kill'd not thee with half so good ___": Brutus | 87 |
"If man makes himself ___ he must not complain when he is trodden on" (Immanuel Kant) | 95 |
Weight-loss candy of the '70s and '80s that couldn't overcome its unfortunate homophone | 99 |