Clues

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Sign seen when approaching an exit road, perhaps, which limits a motorist's options 87
His number 23 is retired by the Miami Heat even though he never played for them 79
Good name for an Asian airline (possible slogan: "The same great service coming and going") 101
"... would thou ___ ne'er been born" ("Othello") 72
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon character that debuted in 2001 73
Comics character who is 65 years old this month (and whose friends are answers to asterisked clues) 99
Title name after the lyric "What's it all about when you sort it out" 83
Acme weapon that makes you feel like a kid again (literally), from "Mad as a Mars Hare," 1963 103
One's favorite decades old concert tee, in the eye's of one's wife 78
Where Mirabelle Buttersfield sells gloves in the movie "Shopgirl" 75
Actress Allen who won a Tony for "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" 77
"Add ___ a tiger's chaudron, / For the ingredients of our cauldron": Shak. 88
What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style 123
Progressive bimonthly, before the second word was dropped from its title 72
Facetious unit defined as the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship 72
Announcement/event of September 2011, or what happened to the theme answers 75
Live video of the 2008 presidential runner-up going about his daily life? 73
"Matrix" protagonist and hopefully someone else someday, so this can be a less dubious crossword entry 112
"I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record" 76
"It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" speaker 83
Mammal whose name derives from the Latin words for "pig" and "fish" 87
"___ Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early" (Onion headline) 82
Kind of participle found in the sentence "While working on my computer, the dog pestered me for dinner" 113
TV character who says "Captain, you almost make me believe in luck" 77
Achieves a rare baseball feat, delineated by part of each long puzzle answer 76
Weight-conscious rapper, or what the singer of "American Pie" eats? 77
''___ Remember'' (from ''The Fantasticks'') 75
Director of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "This Is 40" 73
"... with no ___ dialect, unless he wanted to have one" (Harry Reid on Barack Obama, 2008) 100
Phone company ranked first in msn.com's "Customer Service Hall of Shame" 86
Mexican cooking ingredients called "flores de calabaza" in Spanish 76
1978 comedy set at Faber College (whose motto is "Knowledge is good") 79
Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer 80
Lone Star beverage intended to rival baked Alaska in popularity but which never caught on? 90
She was actually a year younger than Bea, despite playing her mother on TV 74
Whacked "Godfather" character Greene who was shot in the right eye through his glasses 96
Creator of the "Microsoft sound" played when Windows 95 starts 72
Only sch. to win both the menÂ’s and womenÂ’s N.C.A.A. basketball titles in the same year 95
"Or that the Everlasting ___ fix'd/His canon . . . ": Hamlet 74
Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character 92
Doors song off "Backstage and Dangerous" (with "Hyper") 75
"Either that wallpaper goes ___ do" (Oscar Wilde's last words) 76
Master P's son who used to have "Lil'" in front of his name 77
"I wanted a TWIN-NOSED JET, but all I got were these ___! (Which don't bend like normal salamanders)" 116
"___ Warns Russkies to Knock it Off" (1963 "Our Dumb Century" headline) 91
"A place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," in a 1979 hit 85
Tracy Chapman: "You've got a ___, I want a ticket to anywhere" 76
Republican candidate whose campaign manager is the "smoking man" 74
Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? 72
Khal ___ (Dothraki chief who wed Daenerys, on "Game of Thrones") 74
Lee who got a Best Actress nomination for "Days of Wine and Roses" 76
Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 92
Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" 84
Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" 75
Rapper with the 1996 nine-time platinum album "All Eyez on Me" 72
Elite Navy group that's fittingly camouflaged in the four longest answers in this puzzle 92
"___ liebt dich" ("She Loves You" rerecorded in German) 75
Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" 107
Singer of the 1993 No. 1 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" 95
"Forgive your ___, but never forget their names": John F. Kennedy 75
"___ & Order" (show in which "vic" means "victim") 84
Seuss character who "spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy" 78
Time magazine called her "a first responder in the advance guard of style" 84
Her white dress billowed over a subway grate in "The Seven Year Itch" 79
"Dedicated to the ___ Love" (1967 hit by the Mamas and the Papas) 75
"Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they" speaker 80
Tony Nelson: "What's another word for 'toilet'?" Jeannie: "___" 95
Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is 78
"Proudly serving the men and women who serve our country" grp. 72
Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" 81
__ Vandelay, recurring fake "Seinfeld" character who turns out to be a real judge in the final episode 112
Graphic novel subtitled "A Survivor's Tale" that won a Pulitzer in 1992 85
Program about a crime-fighting unit from the South that stages Civil War reenactments? 86
1971 hit for Jean Knight with the lyric "Who do you think you are?" 77
Disrespectful roommate's reply to an inquiry about that last slice of pizza you were saving 95
"The Courageous Heart of ___ Sendler" (April 2009 TV film with Anna Paquin) 85
Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary 72
"I only spend these quarters on video games that involving drawing partitions"? 89
Work that begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." 76
One feeling sad, perhaps because rejecting all truth isn't going so well? 77
"Crescit eundo" ("It grows as it goes") is its motto: Abbr. 79
Former L.A. Ram who holds the N.F.L. record for most receiving yards in a game (336) 84
1894 novel describing the adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll, with "The" 79
Film character who says "Named must your fear be before banish it you can" 84
"Shaggy! There are monsters under this bridge with terrible colds!" 77
Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it 94
And that did it--they immediately started crying. I said, "Well, I hope you've ___" ... 102
Newsman who famously defined news as "something somebody doesn't want printed" 92
Temporarily not playing, in baseball lingo (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) 82
U.S. defensive midfielder ejected in the semis of the 2007 Women's World Cup 80
"This gun's for ___, even if we're just dancing in the dark ..." 82
Crystal ___ (singer of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") 72
"It was ___ dream/I used to read Word Up magazine" (Biggie lyric) 75
A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" 122
Alec who starred in "The Ladykillers" and "The Prisoner" 76
"For ___ though vanquish'd, he could argue still": Goldsmith 74
TV series whose theme song is "I'm a Survivor" (sung by the star) 79
Like the Wicked Witch of the West at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" 76
Original "How to Boil Water" host on the Food Network, familiarly 75
Title words following "don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm just not concerned," in a 1966-'67 hit 126