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1962 hit with the lyric "Like the samba sound, my heart begins to pound" 82
Song that starts “My friends feel itÂ’s their appointed duty” 72
Trial for a car [NOTE: My online solve-at-home crossword contest is TODAY AT 3 P.M. ET (Sunday, 9/30/12). First prize is $2,500. For details, visit www.alzfdn.org.] 165
Rap/country collaboration with an extremely crunk version of "Ring of Fire"? 86
Film which featured Julianne Moore in a role once played by Jodie Foster 72
O'Donnell who hosted a widely panned 2008 Thanksgiving variety special 74
Shakespeare character who said "more sinned against than sinning" 75
"___ peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!" (The Amazing Mumford line on "Sesame Street") 107
About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" 72
Sitcom about the Connor family, which helped propel John Goodman to fame 72
Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” 115
"Chimp and ___" (kid-lit series by Catherine and Laurence Anholt) 75
"You are ___ for street repairs" (Community Chest card in Monopoly) 77
Biker club for Jewish guys? (This one's real; their shirts say, is hog is kosher") 91
Oscar-winning actor with the autobiography "Halfway Through the Door" 79
"One of the most time-consuming things is to have an ___": E.B. White 79
2003 what-if mockumentary about the aftermath of the South's Civil War victory 82
"I give you the steel-handed stingray, Captain James Hook!" speaker 77
Small bills [alas, Ink Well ends 6/25/14 - sign up at avxword.com to get similar weekly puzzles] 96
__ Suzuki, mother of Bond's unborn child at the end of Fleming's "You Only Live Twice" 104
Items that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula Trees 81
"We Are Never ___ Getting Back Together" (#1 song for Taylor Swift) 77
"I Got ___" (silly children's song with the line "Why is everyone laughing at me?") 107
TV host whose first name is spelled by the first and last letters of his surname 80
"Something you'd hate to discover living in your attic." "___" 86
Emperor whose last words were "What an artist the world loses in me" 78
Guess about an Airbus: Abbr. [thanks for solving Ink Well! Goodbye! Solve my puzzles hence at avxwords.com] 107
Cackling cry from a mad scientist before unleashing havoc on southern California? 81
1992 dystopian novel in which mass infertility has doomed the human race 72
"People come up to me ... concerned ... that I'll reproduce" comedian Philips 91
He once wrote "Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague" 78
Massachusetts city where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" 81
"I Got Lost in ___ Arms" ("Annie Get Your Gun" song) 72
Song whose subject is encouraged to "hurry down the chimney tonight" 78
Spiro who wrote, "If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" 87
A Bond baddie had them in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" 84
Political cartoonist called "our best recruiting sergeant" by Lincoln 79
__-Chung (T.C.) Chen, first golfer in U.S. Open history to make a double eagle (1985) 85
REO Speedwagon "It's time to bring this ship in to the ___" 73
The "she" in the lyric "And when she passes, I smile" 73
Cheers bartender Woody's slimy menu addition, in his new Brooklyn bar? 74
Word with ''day now'' or ''other questions'' 76
Catcher Buck ___, elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in its first year 74
Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released 97
Doomed Netflix offshoot on CNET's "20 Worst-Named Tech Products" 78
"I've ___ All Good People" (song on "The Yes Album") 76
"Why don't you discuss that with your urologist instead of me? Sheesh ..." 88
Famous rallying cry ... and a hint to eight other answers in this puzzle 72
Song that was the basis for Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never" 81
"Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) 97
English king said to have died from eating a "surfeit of lampreys" 76
1959 novella that begins "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" 97
Actor Nick who was #1 on VH1's "40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mugshots" 82
TREASURE HUNT STEP 5: Read these (starting east) ... and congratulations! 73
Motown star who wrote the lyrics for and sang "The Tears of a Clown" 78
Ostensible composer of "The Abduction of Figaro" and "Oedipus Tex" 86
She joined forces with Prince during the "Purple Rain" recording sessions 83
Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" 87
"And in this perfect weather, we'll find a place together" tune (Chili Peppers) 93
Oscar-winning actress in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice" 90
Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle 79
"___ makes strangers of people who would be friends": Shirley MacLaine 80
Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" 81
"SNL" commercial with Phil Hartman on a giant pyramid of cereal 73
Prison threshold (represented by this 4x4 corner) at which the solver must arrive 81
1966 album that's #2 on Rolling Stone's all-time greatest albums list 77
Massachusetts town on Lake Chargoggagogg-manchauggagogg-chaubunagungamaugg 74
“Chariot” in von DänikenÂ’s “Chariots of the Gods?” 73
Answer to the question, "In your opinion, what do you suppose is the object most likely to scare away Dracula?"? 122
Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary 74
Eugenia Washington (co-founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington 97
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do" quipster 108
This weekend's fridge contents, probably, and what's missing from five long puzzle answers? 99
Yearly parody prize awarded at Harvard for various scientific categories 72
Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role 78
Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? 120
"I'm not a Republican, but I'm saving up to be one" comic Philips 83
Winner of dual Worst Actress Razzies for "I Know Who Killed Me" 73
Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally 121
TV host who told viewers "Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" 78
___ Commission (corruption investigation at which Frank Serpico testified) 74
DESIGNER: "What'd I do, officers?" LIEUT: "You ___ at a competitor's designs." 106
Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl" 81
Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" 76
Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers 76
Say "Yes, officer, that's the singer that was using Auto-Tune"? 77
"Uh-oh, there's a ball and glass shards under the window"? 72
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" role that launched a spinoff series 72
"The Joy of ___" (Gyles Brandreth's celebration of wordplay) 74
Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? 79
Item: 1966 true-crime work. Problem: Pages soaked with viscous red substance. 77
Pet targeted by the first words of this puzzle's four longest answers 73
Name on "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" 74
From a star on "The Golden Girls" to a Pennsylvania Avenue abode? 75
Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" 102
"People are said to hate you or love you. What do you hear from them?" 80
Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods 116
Band that headlines the annual "Gathering of the Juggalos" festival, for short 88
Sick Puppies "You're Going Down" album "___-Polar" 74
Paul Simon told him to get on the bus to "Leave" his "Lover" 80