| Dish that always gets the same reaction — "Hey, this meat is cold"? (one-letter change) | 101 |
| '70s skin mag's chit to pay a reader for submitting the story "Al lets Burt rub Stella"? | 106 |
| Reply to "Lackaday, Lady Macbeth, what shouldst be said to the cursed dog to make it leave the castle?" | 113 |
| "Coming ___ Parents" (book my mom bought me when she thought I was gay) | 81 |
| "Be sure to drink your ___" (coded message in "A Christmas Story") | 86 |
| "Saw the air too much with your hand," in Shakespeare's words | 75 |
| One-hit wonder that totally ripped off the Postal Service for its 2009 #1 hit "Fireflies" | 99 |
| "In 2008, I said I was going to take piano lessons.Instead I ..." | 75 |
| Morrissey video compilation that translates to "Listen, Steven" | 73 |
| Shelley poem that begins "I met a traveller from an antique land" | 75 |
| He composed "A Hymn to the UN" in 1971 to commemorate the UN's 25th anniversary | 93 |
| "1. My ideal night of drinking involves knocking back a couple ___" | 77 |
| Most of "The Taming of the Shrew" characters, geographically speaking | 79 |
| Kentucky city that's home to the Museum of the American Quilter's Society | 81 |
| What Travolta carries in the first scene of ''Saturday Night Fever'' | 84 |
| 1966 hit with the lyric "I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky" | 80 |
| Musical featuring the song "Hernando's Hideaway," with "The" | 84 |
| Actor in both "Shane," 1953, and "City Slickers," 1991 | 74 |
| What the "arrant thief" of a moon "snatches from the sun," in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" | 127 |
| What one achieves by smashing one's malfunctioning smartphone against a branch? | 83 |
| "___ to Power" (Frederick J. Sheehan's exposé of Alan Greenspan) | 81 |
| Noted box opener (that, curiously, will tell you what to put in six of this puzzle's boxes when read with the enumeration 1 3/2 1) | 134 |
| One of The Forbidden Planet's "Best of the Year" movies of 2006 | 77 |
| Nickname of the dictator who said "I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people" | 103 |
| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| Potentially hackable polling system voted "Worst of Technology" by "Fortune" | 96 |
| Invention by tailor Franz Reichelt in which he fell to his death (as seen on YouTube) | 85 |
| What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order | 77 |
| There are ones named after all the men featured on current U.S. banknotes except Hamilton | 89 |
| Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" | 117 |
| LIEUT: "He says you're ___." DESIGNER: "That's not true!" | 85 |
| They're found at the ends of this puzzle's three other longest answers | 78 |
| First part of an erroneous "Christian Science Monitor" headline published on April 15, 1912 | 101 |
| Friend barges in while gent is making amorous overtures; ref declares ... | 73 |
| Game show on which Oscar gave the clue "Aristophanes" and Felix correctly answered "Ridiculous," on an "Odd Couple" episode | 153 |
| Disgraced evangelical leader Haggard, to his flock who wasn't aware of the whole gay-sex-and-meth thing | 107 |
| History class: F -- “The professor ignored my attendance record and class participation, judging me entirely on ___” | 124 |
| Union that didn't live long to regret endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980 | 73 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| International Tennis Hall of Famer who won consecutive US Opens in 1997 and 1998 | 80 |
| He guest-starred as a gay opera director in a 2003 "Frasier" episode | 78 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| "Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me" author Boyd | 80 |
| Johnny Carson's co-writer of his "Tonight Show" theme song | 72 |
| He wrote the theme for and appeared in 1962's "The Longest Day" | 77 |
| Co-writer of Michael Jackson's posthumous hit "This Is It" | 72 |
| Horror host who always seems to have a great weight on his shoulders?[The only real host on the list. He was on TV for 25+ years.] | 130 |
| BABE MAGNET. Very tall, rugged outdoorsman. Enjoys cutting-edge technology ... | 78 |
| Patriot in the American Revolution known for a midnight ride born on January 1, 1735 | 84 |
| "We never stopped talking. Communication may not always lead to understanding, but at least it ___ ..." | 113 |
| Spanish actress who starred in "Sex and Lucia" and "Spanglish" | 82 |
| My favorite cheap beer, for short (just sayin', if you're buying) | 73 |
| Film with the tagline "Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke" | 77 |
| "Composer" of the "1712 Overture" and "The Abduction of Figaro" | 93 |
| Broadcasting award inscribed with the words "The University of Georgia" | 81 |
| Dessert served a la mode, while the waiter jabbers about winning a million dollars? | 83 |
| Colored like the boat in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 79 |
| Where "all the people that come and go stop and say hello," per the Beatles (1967) | 92 |
| Shape formed by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order, plus one more connection back to A | 104 |
| Site affiliated with "WTF Tattoos" and "White Trash Repairs" | 80 |
| Star of the Oscar-winning short film "For Scent-imental Reasons" | 74 |
| Literary experimentalist Georges with "Life: A User's Manual" | 75 |
| Georges who wrote "A Void" (novel without the letter "E") | 77 |
| "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" guitarist | 83 |
| "Equus" playwright whose twin brother Anthony was also a playwright | 77 |
| What the Baseball Hall of Fame is considering lifting a lifetime ban for? | 73 |
| Scared the daylights out of Elijah in "The Lord of the Rings"? | 72 |
| 1966 album that's #2 on Rolling Stone's all-time greatest albums list | 77 |
| Flowers that materialize above Magrathea, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" | 97 |
| With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
| He's famous for the words "There's a sucker born every minute" | 80 |
| Philanthropist Henry who founded many affordable housing developments in NYC | 76 |
| "Charmed" sister who said "The power of three will set us free," among other spells | 103 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| “Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” | 109 |
| Common chamber music form that includes Beethoven's "Ghost" | 73 |
| Commedia dell'arte character David Bowie dressed as on the cover of "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" | 117 |
| The world's largest ..., in Coleman, Alberta, is used to raise money by the Lions of Coleman | 96 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| Infamous 1983 Royals/Yankees contest where a George Brett home run was nullified | 80 |
| Dead giveaway that somebody's been eating cheap fast food hamburgers? | 73 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan character who sings "Under the brave black flag I fly" | 85 |
| One of Carlin's seven dirty words that's since become commonplace | 73 |
| Extremely controversial, blasphemous 1987 photograph by artist Andres Serrano | 77 |
| "Give Me Everything" rapper vs. "My Adidas" rappers (7/21/1861) | 83 |
| Only men's basketball coach to lead three different schools to the NCAA Final Four | 86 |
| First of 12 popes (just put the Roman numeral in now and get the name from the crossings) | 89 |
| Holder of the world record for the longest ovation on the operatic stage (80 minutes) | 85 |
| Book about how it would be great to stop being nomadic and farm the prairie? | 76 |
| 11-part documentary with the episodes "Caves" and "Deserts" | 79 |
| With "The," orchestral work whose movements share the names of the starred clue/entry pairs ... | 105 |
| Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
| It's crafted to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually gone (as in "Escape From Alcatraz") | 139 |
| It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually escaped | 118 |
| Aktors and akattresses who definlly say thare lines better with a couple in 'em? | 84 |
| Oil-based paste mentioned in the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" | 84 |
| Playwright who inspired "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" | 82 |
| "... With one swing they struck the evil one right in the ___! (dispatching him instantly) ..." | 105 |
| Former New York Giants star currently in jail after shooting himself in the leg | 79 |
| Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams | 88 |