| Start of a quote about Steinbrenner by former Yankees co-owner John McMullen | 76 |
| "Hmmm...I'm stumped as to how you landed a role on 'The Addams Family'..." | 96 |
| "Oh 7, why'd you have to go and eat 9? And 6, did you help 7 out of fear? I'm shocked!" | 105 |
| "Oh yeah, like I'd ever see a guy with a ruffled shirt and heaving chest in real life..." | 103 |
| Fashion rule for the liberated ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 93 |
| English Lit class: A -- “All we had to do was read one book; a very ___” | 80 |
| It doesn't portray a big win nearly as well when it's regular-sized | 75 |
| William Cullen Bryant poem that begins "Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!" | 94 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" | 72 |
| Longtime bar band that had a cameo on "The Simpsons" episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | 103 |
| How you might sit to watch a movie (or at least you'd better, or I'm not watching with you) | 99 |
| Having gained citizenship in another country. The UK, perhaps, in this case | 75 |
| The largest man-made object in orbit around the Earth, with "The" | 75 |
| "Atomic" Gummi snacks whose second word is a portmanteau of their shape and how they "move" | 111 |
| "___: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968" | 77 |
| Ron Moody in "Oliver!" compared to others who played the part? | 72 |
| Mother Goose offerings, or in a different sense, this puzzle's title | 72 |
| "Sorry, Buckeye State, but the whole General Assembly's coming over for my party!" | 96 |
| Test subject #4 perceives A and C as blue, B and D as orange, 1 and 2 as red; maybe she rides the ... | 101 |
| "Say. That feels good!Old Harry is coming back, Ms. Henstridge" (7) | 77 |
| City about which Gertrude Stein said, "There is no 'there' there" | 83 |
| Director who had to have "Life of Pi" explained to him over and over before he agreed to adapt it? | 108 |
| Need to touch all the items on one's desk before leaving, say: Abbr. | 72 |
| Sophocles tribute that begins "Numberless are the world's wonders ..." | 84 |
| The world's largest ..., in Anniston, Alabama, boasts fifteen-foot legs | 75 |
| Embarking on something exciting, and a hint regarding what this puzzle's starred answers' endings have in common | 120 |
| Section of "Carmina Burana" used in "battle to the death" movie trailers | 92 |
| Medieval poem about fate set to music in Orff's "Carmina Burana" | 78 |
| Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
| Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in "Lonesome Dove" | 81 |
| Shakespeare on overthrowing first ("Julius Caesar," V, iii, 6) | 72 |
| '90s-'00s Lifetime sitcom in which viewers chose the name of the title character | 88 |
| NFL star Michael who was the basis for the movie "The Blind Side" | 75 |
| Complaint to the chiropractor from "American Idol" singer Clay? | 73 |
| 1985 Ready for the World hit that knocked "Money for Nothing" out of the #1 spot | 90 |
| Song with the lyric "In the middle of the night I call your name" | 75 |
| Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created | 88 |
| French goose, which you won't find in a vowelless puzzle (I only allowed this entry in the puzzle because Rex Parker used it once - true story) | 147 |
| It may be given to a turkey before roasting, or a person during a massage | 73 |
| Cheers bartender Woody's slimy menu addition, in his new Brooklyn bar? | 74 |
| Chicago band whose one-take 2005 video was choreographed and filmed in their backyard | 85 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| Cigarette brand that once used the slogan "Not a cough in a carload" | 78 |
| MATURE, FUN-LOVING man, smoker, music lover. Come share a palatial home ... | 75 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| Long-extinct German dialect of which the epic poem "The Heliand" is the only known sample | 99 |
| Ukrainian-born actress who was a Bond girl in "Quantum of Solace" | 75 |
| Frederick Law ___, the "father of American landscape architecture" | 76 |
| Gabonese president for 41 years, the longest such run in African history | 72 |
| The only "Celebrity Apprentice" participant to appear on a previous "Apprentice" season | 107 |
| "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread..." writer's name, translated | 75 |
| Group whose "If You Leave" was written for "Pretty in Pink" | 79 |
| "___ To Fu" (part of the 2008 Damon Albarn project "Monkey: Journey to the West") | 101 |
| "The pat with a hat that sits flat ___" (old slogan on individual butter portions) | 92 |
| 1963 hit for the Drifters ... or where you can see the ends of the starred answers | 82 |
| Talking Heads' "As the days go by, let the water hold me down" song | 81 |
| ___ One (political idea-sharing .org site with the slogan "You Set the Agenda") | 89 |
| 2008 horror movie, or the sound from across the theater that kept breaking my concentration? | 92 |
| "I'm light as a feather, but nobody can hold me for very long ..." | 80 |
| "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ___": Montaigne | 86 |
| Classic Xavier Cugat song ... or a hint to the invitation in the circled letters | 80 |
| On second thought, make it a horror film: "Big Momma's House..." | 78 |
| Start of Seneca's quote that ends with "... what reason cannot" | 77 |
| "This is to put you ___ ..." (phrase from many a lawyer's letter | 78 |
| ... using ___: “Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!” | 86 |
| "Now he's got the pizza - but the TV's showing nothing but snow! He quickly gives it an ___ ..." | 114 |
| 38 17 25 / 50 27 55 42 63 41 49 46 24 / 23 58 13 / 9 11 29 15 39 19 (see notepad) | 127 |
| Best Picture inspired by a Pulitzer-winning series of newspaper articles | 72 |
| Where this grid's starred answers' ends have particular relevance | 73 |
| "People say she's crazy, she got diamonds ___ of her shoes" | 73 |
| Word appearing twice after "Boogie" in a 1978 #1 hit's title | 74 |
| Medical procedure done while reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?" | 76 |
| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. | 73 |
| New 13th zodiac sign that would cause all these changes (if astrologers took it seriously) | 90 |
| Setting in Sherlock Holmes's "The Man with the Twisted Lip" | 73 |
| Knock-off board game suffix found after "Dino," "Dog," or "Ocean" | 95 |
| Saturn's confession to his wife after eating another of their offspring? | 76 |
| "At the organic market, the price of ___ ___ from moderate to ridiculous" | 83 |
| Aptly named red tabby who played Cat in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" | 78 |
| "The one and only true love ___ least it seems" (CeCe Peniston, "Finally") | 94 |
| "... for there is nothing / either good __, but thinking makes it so": Hamlet | 87 |
| Product formerly with the "fabulous" spokesperson Vanessa Branch | 74 |
| 124 minutes of Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore doing nothing to distinguish themselves? | 94 |
| " . . . if I should sleep ___/'Twere deadly sickness": Shak. | 74 |
| Invoice for loofahs with "No-Spin Zone" printed on the handle? | 72 |
| Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
| Fortuitous point in the Showcase Showdown to land on $1.00, on "The Price Is Right"? | 94 |
| "Pics ___ didn't happen" ("Where's the proof?!") | 76 |
| "That thing I told you about isn't getting done today, possibly not even tomorrow" | 96 |
| ___ the Jebusite (Biblical figure who sold his threshing floor to David) | 72 |
| "... abridging the freedom of speech, ___ the press ..." (Bill of Rights) | 83 |
| "The ___ 'e knows above a bit, the bullock's but a fool": Kipling | 83 |
| "Is she not down so late, ___ so early?": "Romeo and Juliet" | 80 |
| "Say as he says, ___ shall never go": "The Taming of the Shrew" | 83 |
| "Say as he says, ___ shall never go" ("The Taming of the Shr | 75 |
| Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" | 72 |
| "Variety" headline about jazz pianist Peterson's acclaimed TV performance? | 88 |
| Irish-born actor whose character in "Barbarella" inspired the band name Duran Duran | 93 |
| Sir William who wrote "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" | 73 |
| Physician William who wrote the classic text "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" | 96 |