| #1 on the American Film Institute's "Greatest Movie Musicals" list | 80 |
| Say "I love you" by extending the thumb, index finger, and pinky, e.g. | 80 |
| Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters | 85 |
| Signal that the game's over by the Irish ref? (Prince / Living Colour) | 74 |
| Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film | 92 |
| "The most perfect expression of scorn," according to George Bernard Shaw | 82 |
| His only line in "Clerks" ends in "Most of 'em just cheat on you" | 89 |
| First professional musician to become Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Center | 77 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
| 1950's-90's singer called "The High Priestess of Soul" | 72 |
| Game with a "Livin' Large" expansion, with "The" | 72 |
| Locale of St. Catherine's Monastery, said to be the world's oldest working monastery | 92 |
| Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for "From Here to Eternity" | 72 |
| "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century," according to the BBC | 73 |
| "___ Warns Russkies to Knock it Off" (1963 "Our Dumb Century" headline) | 91 |
| ___ Building, company headquarters erected in 1908 in New York City, at the time the tallest building in the world | 114 |
| Petty "Their A&R man said 'I don't hear a ___'" | 73 |
| When asked "What is the meaning of life?" she sometimes answers "All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate" | 134 |
| Her name is Norwegian for "beautiful woman who leads you to victory" | 78 |
| Gene who would ask "Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?" | 112 |
| Instruments in the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and "Within You Without You" | 97 |
| The BBC's "Pinwright's Progress" is reportedly the first TV one | 81 |
| "Everybody Loves Raymond" or "Everybody Hates Chris" | 72 |
| "Being on a __ stops me from getting Alzheimer's": Jerry Stiller | 78 |
| "The chair doesn't recognize you, steakhouse and chophouse!" | 74 |
| Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle | 75 |
| Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan | 111 |
| Part of a game name reportedly chosen because the game surface resembles a slope | 80 |
| Like this puzzle's theme, to solvers concerned with puzzle symmetry? | 72 |
| Après-___ (following a day on the slopes -- and, literally, where the first words of the four longest puzzle answers can be found) | 133 |
| "I wanted a MISSILE TANK, but instead I'm suffering from ___! (And I never even left the lodge)" | 110 |
| Sextet of cancellations that produced the starred entries...or an oversexed MTV production now facing cancellation | 114 |
| Song with the lyric ''Lost my partner, what'll I do?'' | 74 |
| [*cross out* Children's song] Ignore the rest of the lunch I brought and just eat the fish? | 95 |
| Job that may have you dressing ahead for the winter while shooting in the summer | 80 |
| Broadway composer Matthew who was nominated for a Tony for "The Wedding Singer" | 89 |
| Actress/cartoonist roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an airport employee? | 83 |
| Johnny Mercer jazz standard with the lyric "My heart is riding on your wings" | 87 |
| Critically acclaimed role-playing game in the "Elder Scrolls" series | 78 |
| They're "in flight," according to "Afternoon Delight" | 77 |
| "The ___ Not Falling!: Why It's Ok to Chill About Global Warming" (Holly Fretwell book for children) | 114 |
| The desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair | 78 |
| Pejorative nickname for one supporting a cause via unproductive feel-good measures | 82 |
| "Language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work," per Carl Sandburg | 102 |
| "All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton | 77 |
| "Kiss With a Fist" lyric "You gave a kick, I gave a ___" | 76 |
| "I have this dream where I'm a kid delivering donuts to the Three Stooges. I'm in their office setting up (and listening) and Moe says to Larry, 'Hey, porcupine! Does this new script seem ___?' ..." | 224 |
| Actress/singer Helen with the CD "Crossword" (the title track starts "I found my true love today doing the crossword on the back of the 6 train") | 165 |
| "You're rich, with cabbage delish/Once tried, always on my side," e.g.? | 85 |
| "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd ___ of care": Shakespeare | 73 |
| "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of ___" (W.C. Fields quote) | 81 |
| "The arms of the garment were stitched together from previously worn shirts..." | 90 |
| Metaphorical political term for a system with no purpose other than to sustain itself | 85 |
| Goo Goo Dolls "I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete" song | 83 |
| Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times) | 85 |
| Toy that "Log" was a parody of, on "Ren & Stimpy" | 73 |
| Sochi alpine event with "giant" and "super giant" varieties | 79 |
| ___ ranger (punny name for a British yuppie, based on a fancy London neighborhood) | 82 |
| ___ Crosley, author of the 2008 best seller "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" | 86 |
| They might have the newspaper Hospodárske Noviny shipped overseas to them | 76 |
| "Try to chew your food a little more--don't scarf it" phrase? | 75 |
| "An' singin there, an' dancin here, / Wi' great and ___": Burns | 85 |
| "And Moe says, 'Well, you can come in, but with two conditions ¬— one, that you don't start ___' ..." | 133 |
| "I give you the steel-handed stingray, Captain James Hook!" speaker | 77 |
| "Her loveliness I never knew / Until she ___ on me" (Hartley Coleridge) | 81 |
| [*cross out* Symbols of happiness] Transmissions with colons, dashes and parentheses? | 85 |
| Julia Ormond title character with a "Sense of Snow" in a 1997 film | 76 |
| Pseudonymous surname used by a director who doesn't want to be associated with a film | 89 |
| Bill Callahan covering Scottish math metal with "I Know What Boys Like" band? | 87 |
| Suggestion uttered by Nate Dogg at the end of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" (The views and opinions expressed in this answer are not necessarily shared by The Cross Nerd Inc.) | 188 |
| Motown star who wrote the lyrics for and sang "The Tears of a Clown" | 78 |
| Jan ___, South African leader instrumental in establishing the League of Nations | 80 |
| "If you can't beat 'em in the alley you can't beat 'em on the ice", he said | 101 |
| "'Twas white then as the new-fa'en __": Alexander Anderson | 76 |
| 2006 film with the tagline "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fright" | 76 |
| Electronica group behind that "I've got the power!" music sample | 78 |
| Carroll critter that "frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea" | 78 |
| React angrily toward (while thinking, "I'll see you in court!" perhaps) | 85 |
| One of the three subjects of the sports book "American Triumvirate" | 77 |
| "See how they smile, like pigs in a sty, see how they ___" (line from "I Am the Walrus") | 108 |
| Elaborate practical joke where the victim is left in the dark charged with an impossible task | 93 |
| Show that released the edited version of "I'm on a Boat," for short | 81 |
| TV prog. that became the most Primetime Emmy-nominated show of all time in 2010 | 79 |
| NBC show that featured Janis Ian and Billy Preston as its first musical guests | 78 |
| Someone who only watches Swedish cinema and eats grass-fed beef, probably | 73 |
| "America's #1 Party Girl," per a recent Rolling Stone cover | 73 |
| Washed-up-but-still-nominally-entertaining "Dogg After Dark" host, casually | 85 |
| "Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon," as per a 1976 Time magazine cover | 81 |
| Eminem rap with the lyric "Guarantee I'll be the greatest thing you ever had" | 91 |
| Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| Aretha Franklin album with the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful" | 72 |
| "Boxers or briefs?" and "Tell us something the voters don't know about you", e.g. | 105 |
| Words before "a Brain" and "an Animal" in book titles | 73 |
| Channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight, with "the" | 76 |
| "___ you can't get under it" ("Psychedelic Shack" lyrics) | 81 |
| Solar power plant that was raided by the FBI after filing for bankruptcy | 72 |
| It has "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects," according to Aldous Huxley | 116 |
| "I'm all by myself, as I've always felt" song by the Pumpkins | 79 |
| "Judy's smile was ___" (from "Judy's Turn To Cry") | 78 |