| 1980s-'90s talent show, and what you need to do to find this puzzle's theme | 83 |
| Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? | 79 |
| Word for "beginning" that encloses four answers in this puzzle | 72 |
| Its opening voice-over ended "to boldly go where no man has gone before" | 82 |
| An annual convention in August, 2006, will celebrate its 40th anniversary | 73 |
| Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? | 85 |
| Onetime Minnesota governor who ran for the G.O.P. presidential nomination nine times | 84 |
| With "association," legal group in Arkansas or Tennessee, for instance | 80 |
| "I unintentionally brought Mom's bag of DVDs instead of mine, so in the back seat we watched about 10 minutes of '___' ..." | 145 |
| Very happy "place" [read the Notepad for info about the hidden answers in this puzzle] | 96 |
| Commercial interruptions literally found in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 89 |
| "Be ever wonderful, ___ you are" (Earth, Wind & Fire lyric) | 73 |
| "Let's ___" ("Billboard Hot 100" suggestion from Al Green) | 82 |
| Canonized monk who introduced the custom of dating events from the birth of Christ | 82 |
| Thing spread in bed: Abbr. [get the 2013 rate - subscribe to avxwords.com today] | 80 |
| "Souvenir" picked up in Amsterdam's red-light district: Abbr. | 75 |
| Problems that may result from screwing studs without using some kind of barrier device: Abbr. | 93 |
| What one can do, figuratively, to the last words of the four longest Across answers | 83 |
| "The Pajama Game" show tune that introduced choreographer Bob Fosse's signature style | 99 |
| A Bond baddie had them in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" | 84 |
| ___ Dan (sexual device in William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch") | 77 |
| Group whose 1972 debut album "Can't Buy a Thrill" went platinum | 77 |
| Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? | 75 |
| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" | 86 |
| Woman who said "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father" | 94 |
| Who said "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual" | 92 |
| She said: "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off" | 82 |
| Number of Belgian beers you plan on drinking (as screamed in "A Futbol Named Desire")? | 96 |
| Sci-fi character who inspired "Harmonies for the Haunted" band? | 73 |
| "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa" speaker | 78 |
| Word with ''forward,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 89 |
| "Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," in Alcoholics Anonymous | 95 |
| He won a Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for "Breakfast on Pluto" | 81 |
| "___ & Son" (British series that inspired "Sanford and Son") | 84 |
| The earliest surviving one, made in 1932, features the Philadelphia Orchestra | 77 |
| "I wanted a DIESEL TRUCK, but got this ___! (Which'll never bear birds)" | 87 |
| "Ambition should be made of __ stuff": "Julius Caesar" | 74 |
| His film debut was in "Curly Sue" (1991) as a sort of villain out to get the title girl | 97 |
| Wright who quipped "What's another word for 'thesaurus'?" | 79 |
| One of the only 12 letter words that typists can produce with just the left hand on a standard keyboard | 103 |
| Blue Jays pitcher Dave who holds his team's record for most All-Star selections | 83 |
| "___ Nacht" (original German version of "Silent Night") | 75 |
| Blender magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 40 worst lyricists in rock in 2007 | 80 |
| Fifth-century pope, the first to receive the title "the Great" | 72 |
| E.T.O. battleground that Samuel Beckett called "The Capital of the Ruins" | 83 |
| City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right | 78 |
| Beatified monk who shares his name with a "Robin Hood" character | 74 |
| Canadian figure skater Elvis who won silver at the Lillehammer and Nagano Olympics | 82 |
| DESIGNER: "What'd I do, officers?" LIEUT: "You ___ at a competitor's designs." | 106 |
| What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series | 78 |
| On 8/21/1911 the subject (the letters dropped from the starred answers) was ___ | 79 |
| The Village ___ (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") | 79 |
| 1980 funk album from Slave with the hits "Watching You" and "Snap Shot" | 91 |
| Top-grossing concert act of 1989, '94 and '05, with "the" | 75 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door | 73 |
| 1984 Talking Heads film hailed as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made" | 87 |
| Iggy investigated the theft of benches from the weight-room so he could yell "___!" | 93 |
| One who follows tornados (or a hint to the opener in four horizontal answers) | 77 |
| Where to play games like Little Red Riding Kombat and Jack and Jill's Skee-Ball? | 84 |
| "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" (supposed words from Lincoln) | 106 |
| Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" | 102 |
| Product with the old jingle line "One little can will keep you running free" | 86 |
| It once had a jingle with the line "One little can will keep you running free" | 88 |
| March figure ... or, when split into three parts, a title for this puzzle | 73 |
| Florida city that was once home to the world's largest Shuffleboard club | 76 |
| "Equus" character Alan transforms to become useful to a lumberjack? | 77 |
| Movie that was shot in "3-B" -- "three beers and it looks good" | 83 |
| Composer threatened with arrest in 1940 for adding a major seventh chord to the national anthem | 95 |
| Noted student of actress Jean Arthur when Arthur was a teacher at Vassar | 72 |
| The Delacorte Theater's "Mother Courage and Her Children"? | 72 |
| Classical music group ... or what the four sets of circled letters make up? | 75 |
| 1981 comedy with the tagline "The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls" | 124 |
| Command to the promiscuous widow in "The Night of the Iguana" to take her clothes off? | 96 |
| Source of illumination Harold Edgerton used for photographs of milk drops and bursting balloons | 95 |
| It precedes "Substituted Ball" in the Definitions section of the "Rules of Golf" | 100 |
| Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band) | 89 |
| Kerri who had that vault where her ankle was messed up but she won gold anyway | 78 |
| Probable rte. parts if you click "avoid highways" on Google Maps | 74 |
| "Two-way" thoroughfares at both ends of this puzzle's long answers | 80 |
| Show with Jean-Luc Picard as captain of the Enterprise, in fan shorthand | 72 |
| "Sanctimonious ___" (Joseph McCarthy's nickname for Senator Symington of Missouri) | 96 |
| ___ Nahan (real-life boxing commentator who appeared in all six Rocky movies) | 77 |
| This, for example: "Some traffic jam, huh?" "Yeah." "How long we been here?" "Too long!" " 'Rush hour' ... go figure." | 176 |
| Baffles (ABOUT THIS PUZZLE: If you saw the headline "Fiend Found!" you might instantly notice that, between the two words, only the vowels change — the consonants stay put. Okay, if you were me, you' | 221 |
| "Just how ___ I am?" (thought when listening to a lame excuse) | 72 |
| With "The," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy | 78 |
| "Mr. Roboto" band appearing with the "Ruby Tuesday" band? | 77 |
| One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" | 87 |
| What this puzzle's theme answers contain (if you look closely enough) | 73 |
| "The pizzeria's out of mushrooms, though, so he'll need to make a ___" | 88 |
| The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
| Risky marketing of sports jackets on a city's outskirts? [Chevrolet] | 72 |
| Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
| What the five actors in this puzzle did in "Catwoman," "Leonard, Part 6," "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery," "Gigli," and "Freddy Got Fingered," respectively | 211 |
| Puzzle that moved from the U.S. to Japan to England and back to the U.S. | 72 |
| "Alphabet series" mystery writer (she's up to "X") | 74 |
| "Guys and Dolls" song with the lyric "Call a lawyer" | 72 |
| "Guys and Dolls" song whose title follows "Call a lawyer and ..." | 85 |