| Mo. with very few holidays, though looks like it's got National Ice Cream Sandwich Day | 90 |
| Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary | 72 |
| She said "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 84 |
| "___ Lee" (Civil War song from which "Love Me Tender" was adapted) | 86 |
| Invention a British parliamentarian claimed in 1903 would not lead to a decline in riding horses | 96 |
| Palindromic girl's name that ranked among the 10 most popular in each of the past five years | 96 |
| Kate's role opposite Cate's Katharine in "The Aviator" | 72 |
| "Voulez-vous coucher __ moi?": "Lady Marmalade" lyric | 73 |
| Charles Gounod piece based on the first prelude of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" | 95 |
| "When I am dead and gone, remember to ___ me ...": "Henry VI, Part I" | 89 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end | 86 |
| "What? keep __ away? seven days and nights?": "Othello" | 75 |
| Teacher's comment that she maybe might write near sentences sort of like this current clue here | 99 |
| Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one | 107 |
| "That's ___!" (director's "We're finished!") | 76 |
| “All-out war was launched on the graph today when the ___ attacked” | 75 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end | 72 |
| Bill who was rumored to have written Obama's "Dreams from My Father" | 82 |
| Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" | 83 |
| Rand who said "A culture is made, or destroyed, by its articulate voices." | 84 |
| Rand referenced by Rand Paul-supporting PAC "Stand With Rand," or so they say | 87 |
| ___ Robbins, co-lyricist of the #1 "Rocky" theme song "Gonna Fly Now" | 89 |
| “___ Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up": Barack Obama | 140 |
| Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" | 74 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| Empire whose main sport was tlachtli, wherein the loser was ritualistically executed | 84 |
| Los Angeles suburb whose name is thought to mean "everything in the States" | 85 |
| "___ O'Riley" (first song on the album "Who's Next") | 80 |
| "Histoire de ___," first in a popular series of children's books | 78 |
| "Saturday Night Live" character who introduced herself with "Hewwo" | 87 |
| Directing nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu for "___" | 74 |
| ___ fish (creatures that can translate any language in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") | 108 |
| Who nobody puts in the corner, according to a line from "Dirty Dancing" | 81 |
| ___ to school . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme suggested by the ends of five answers | 87 |
| Song performed by U2 at Live Aid in 1985, and a single for Michael Jackson in 1987 | 82 |
| 2003 film with the tag line "He's very naughty ... and not very nice" | 83 |
| Soul singer with the 2010 album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)" | 86 |
| Singer with the 2008 album "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" | 76 |
| The only 1930's boxing champ you need to know for solving crosswords | 72 |
| Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" | 87 |
| Faith whose core principles include the unity of God, religion, and humankind | 77 |
| 1949 show tune with the lyric "Here am I, your special island!" | 73 |
| "Let's ___ it up a notch!" (phrase spoken by Chef Elzar, a "Futurama" character based on Emeril Lagasse) | 128 |
| A: You have 24 hours to arrange payment. T: (to himself) Looks like we'll be a __ (Paul McCartney & Wings) | 114 |
| Rihanna lyric "Got my Ray ___ on and I'm feeling hella cool tonight" | 82 |
| Restrictions, like the ones on PA systems that necessitate the "human microphone" at Occupy Wall Street | 113 |
| Word after "Don't pass" and "Don't come" on a craps table | 85 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| "Guinness World Records" was originally created to settle them | 72 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Comedian who was the Peace and Freedom Party's 2012 presidential nominee | 76 |
| TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows" | 110 |
| Name that might elicit giggles if used in the song "The Name Game" | 76 |
| Topic of a classic 1940s comedy routine, and the inspiration of this puzzle | 75 |
| The Peck and Snyder Company pioneered the use of ___ as advertising tools to sell a) candy; b) beverages; c) tobacco; d) sporting goods | 135 |
| What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" | 73 |
| Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" | 106 |
| Grp. that battles consumer fraud ... or a hint to some much-repeated letters in this puzzle | 91 |
| Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? | 79 |
| Arthur whom The Smoking Gun claims was "a truck-driving Marine" | 73 |
| Arthur who was the first Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 80 |
| Arthur who played Larry David's mother on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 78 |
| ___ Sigurdson (Eric Forman's grandmother on "That '70s Show") | 79 |
| First actress to play Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 77 |
| Newcaster who said "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" | 98 |
| Looks proudly [get xword deals by signing up for our free news list! - avxwords.com] | 84 |
| It's soft, strong, and demonstrated by this puzzle's four theme answers | 79 |
| Michael Jackson "it doesn't matter who's wrong or right" hit | 78 |
| "Get lost!," and a hint to the beginnings of the three longest entries | 80 |
| With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
| Words repeated by Samuel L. Jackson in the diner scene from "Pulp Fiction" | 84 |
| "In ___" (jokey postscript tacked onto fortune cookie messages) | 73 |
| Theologian who started the custom of dating events from the birth of Christ | 75 |
| Word with ''queen,'' ''oyster'' or ''flower'' | 93 |
| Contest where you'd hear words like "euonym" and "autochthonous" | 88 |
| Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| "New York Mining Disaster 1941" was their first U.S. hit in 1967 | 74 |
| "Jive Talkin'" group, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| Designer who said "The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable" | 79 |
| “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline”: Frank Zappa | 91 |
| "All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with ___": Homer Simpson | 165 |
| 1999 #1 hit that introduced the "Cher-bot" vocal recording technique | 78 |
| Only person to have the #1 movie, #1 album and #1-rated late-night TV show all in the same week | 95 |
| Plain whose novel "Heartwood" was published posthumously in 2011 | 74 |
| Author of the story that inspired "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" | 77 |
| Robert who won Oscars for both writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 82 |
| Kentucky town with a college and a cornbread festival ... Christ, Wikipedia yields shitty clues | 95 |
| "I got this hat at a thrift store; all I had to do was clean it..." | 78 |
| Disease whose name is a reduplication of the Sinhalese word for "weakness" | 84 |
| He said "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting" | 76 |
| He jumped into Larsen's arms after the only World Series perfect game | 73 |
| Diamond great with the line "I really didn't say everything I said" | 81 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| "And they give you cash, which is just as good as money" speaker | 74 |
| Ballplayer Campaneris who was the first ever to play all nine positions in a single game | 88 |
| "The path of the righteous man is ___ on all sides ..." ("Pulp Fiction" line) | 97 |
| Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" | 84 |
| Technology at issue in the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal Studios, Inc. | 100 |