Ring of ___ (mythological Greek artifact that rendered its wearer invisible) | 76 |
Wu-Tang Clan member who released the classic album "Liquid Swords," 1995 | 82 |
Provider of an old silk hat, e.g. (as depicted at the top of this puzzle) | 73 |
NBA strategy that involves deliberately fouling the opponent with the worst free throw percentage | 97 |
Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill who played the character Stefon | 87 |
"Or that the Everlasting ___ fix'd/His canon . . . ": Hamlet | 74 |
2001-'08 White House Deputy Chief of Staff whose middle name is Whitehouse | 78 |
Channel with programming such as "The Real Lunch Ladies of Lincoln Middle School"? | 92 |
John Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the movie version of this musical | 74 |
___ worm (punch line to a "What's worse ...?" riddle involving an apple) | 86 |
Container that holds two generous glasses of wine (as well as a double dose of this puzzle's theme?) | 104 |
Jennifer Aniston's weekend in bed with her pop-star boyfriend John, cut short? | 82 |
Oz creator's cry when he first realized what family he was born into? | 73 |
What's needed to get out of class, if you don't know one from the other? | 80 |
Actress Veronica who was the model in the last cigarette ad shown on U.S. TV | 76 |
Shak. play with the famous line, "What a piece of pork is a man"? | 75 |
Jazz legend who turned the Benny Goodman Trio into the Benny Goodman Quartet | 76 |
Piece of usually antiquated technology that is passed onto one's parents | 76 |
Words with ''there'' and ''the balance'' | 72 |
"The Simpsons" villain who changes during October and November? | 73 |
Film which featured Julianne Moore in a role once played by Jodie Foster | 72 |
Old English coin that will suffice, according to "Christmas Is Coming" | 80 |
What I wished for, but couldn't write correctly due to heavy turbulence | 75 |
"South Pacific" song that asks "If you don't have a dream, / How you gonna have a dream come true?" | 123 |
"They was watchin 'Yo! MTV Raps' / What's the ___ on the craps?": Ice Cube | 96 |
Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
Song covered by Elvis Presley, Guy Lombardo, Bing Crosby, Sammy Kaye, and others | 80 |
Fast-food chain that peddles a 1,010-calorie Six Dollar Super Bacon Cheese Thickburger | 86 |
Wisecrack about an actor waking up from his nap on the set of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? | 100 |
Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
George M. Cohan song that begins "Who is the man who will spend or will even lend?" | 93 |
His "Goblet of Fire" was Amazon.com's #1 best-selling book of 2000 | 80 |
One Direction member who named the band (like you know any of the other members) | 80 |
Celebrity couple nickname #1: "Button-Down Mind" comedian and syndicated advice columnist | 99 |
TV host/singer roomies' mailbox label that sounds like a vital sign? | 72 |
"May I introduce the lovely couple: actress Melissa Joan and singer Bonnie!" | 86 |
Discussion between a former Colorado senator and a '70s-'90s rock band? | 79 |
Actor currently playing Tevye on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 76 |
"Come to the sheltered spot you can't wait to get away from!" | 75 |
Large, wraparound sunglasses -- often worn at night to make critics less visible | 80 |
"...and point out that only the souls of the righteous will be ___" | 77 |
Clears out an accumulation of garbage (perhaps after eight years of being preoccupied) | 86 |
Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
It uses only the 12 letters A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U and W (like eight long answers in this puzzle) | 106 |
1950's doo-wop group with the hit "A Thousand Miles Away," with "the" | 93 |
Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? | 79 |
Tony Nelson: "What's another word for 'toilet'?" Jeannie: "___" | 95 |
Whiplash protection on the back of a toilet for '80s TV character Max? | 74 |
Reviewer on "The Luck of Roaring Camp": "It needs more humor" | 81 |
"Sunny" singer Bobby who opened for the Beatles on their last U.S. tour | 81 |
"The Hills" pair named "Worst Couple of 2008" by iVillage.com | 81 |
"An oh, what ___ we'll hit!" (lyric from Bugs Bunny's theme song) | 83 |
"___ Myself" ("The Producers" number sung by Hitler) | 72 |
Cute animal fawned over by murderers, whoremongers, idolaters, and liars? | 73 |
Actress who famously said, "Acting is the perfect idiot's profession" | 83 |
Mineral found on Mars in 1998 that suggests the former presence of water | 72 |
"___ longer denies all the failures of the modern man" (Joy Division lyric) | 85 |
Educator who once famously compared the lyrics of 2 Live Crew to Shakespeare's [sic] "O my luve's like a red, red rose" | 137 |
Genre-hopping jazz pianist who scored the "Fat Albert" theme song | 75 |
"And so this foul vixen kept me broadcasting for years" response? | 75 |
Pain-reliever once trademarked by Bayer (slogan: "The sedative for coughs") | 85 |
Mid-1990s look popularized by pale and emaciated models in black-and-white shoots | 81 |
Cable network concerned with feminist movements between France and Great Britain? | 81 |
#1 hit between "Monster Mash" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" | 79 |
1962 chart topper whose title subject "doesn't do what everybody else does" | 89 |
"... never thinks straight 'bout the shape that __": Dylan lyric | 78 |
"___ monster, Gaston, you are!" ("Beauty and the Beast") | 76 |
Jimi Hendrix song with the lyric "Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?" | 92 |
1968 song with the lyric "Remember to let her into your heart" | 72 |
1993 hit with the lyric "Keep playin' that song all night" | 72 |
End-of-the-week Twitter tag listing those you think others should be paying attention to | 88 |
Visual representation of an item associated with the answers to the asterisked clues in this puzzle | 99 |
Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue | 94 |
Diamond deception found in this grid nine times: eight in square four-letter clusters, the ninth formed by the clusters' outline | 132 |
This completed puzzle has 10 of them, each three letters long, reading diagonally | 81 |
Former Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher who played for the Yanks in the late '90s | 80 |
What one gets by multiplying the numbers in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
"Just because you prefer Dharma over Greg doesn't make you a ___, ___" | 84 |
People classified as "homo groovius" by humor website Uncyclopedia | 76 |
Clique of cows who totally knew about this patch of grass before anyone else? | 77 |
"I will always wear black; even when I enjoy a concert I will never do more than sway disaffectedly," etc. | 116 |
Valentine's Day gifts that have to go back at the end of the night? (-Guns) | 79 |
"Hie thee __, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear": "Macbeth" | 87 |
Achieves a rare baseball feat, delineated by part of each long puzzle answer | 76 |
Gilbert and Sullivan work subtitled "The Lass That Loved a Sailor" | 76 |
School whose motto is Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" | 74 |
Fictional school whose motto is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" | 78 |
He was on deck when Mookie hit the ball through Bill Buckner's legs to win Game 6 of the 1986 World Series | 110 |
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
1982 Fleetwood Mac hit whose title is sung three times after "Come on and" | 84 |
"Alternate side parking regulations are suspended today," say? | 72 |
Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers | 127 |
TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" | 106 |
Site where Strong Bad, in message #100, tells how he got his "very own The Cheat" | 91 |
Malia's command to the family dog when it's time to return to Pennsylvania Avenue? | 90 |
Poet giving a reading of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" at the saloon? | 83 |
NBA military appreciation initiative, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 75 |
Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) | 89 |
Dr. Seuss title that completes the warning "Stop! You must not..." | 76 |
Illegal football tackle involving grabbing the inside of the shoulder pads from behind or the side | 98 |