Clues

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Alfalfa's love in "The Little Rascals" 52
Award for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" 52
Attorney Melvin, the ''King of Torts'' 54
Airline whose name is consecutive letters of the alphabet 57
Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country" 53
Actress Turner of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" 60
Athletic boost "taken" by the four theme answers 58
Artist known by the French pronunciation of his initials 56
Actress Pounder of "ER" and "The Shield" 60
Album that knocked the Beatles' "1" off the #1 spot 65
Actress Michelle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" 62
Activity in which people are not playing with a full deck 57
Ask "Rabbit Redux" author for spare change? 53
Award for Lynn Nottage's play "Ruined" 52
Alma mater of "Wicked" author Gregory Maguire 55
Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire 66
“Jesus Hopped the ___” (Stephen Adly Guirgis play) 58
Abalone so-called from where it comes from and what it looks like 65
Antepenultimate word of "Casey at the Bat" 52
Attachment to ''smith'' or ''plane'' 68
Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" 69
Acronym of a scientific project seeking contact with alien life 63
Aníbal Cavaco ___, Portuguese president beginning in 2006 60
Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18" 56
Armstrong who took a "giant leap for mankind" 55
    Temple University team, with "the" 54
Arthur's nickname in "The Once and Future King" 61
Author of "A Child's Christmas in the Magic Mountain"? 68
Anita Loos's autobiographical "A ___ Like I" 58
Author who covered the Spanish-American War for New York newspapers 67
Architect Maya who created the Civil Rights Memorial 52
Annual major golf tournaments played in August, familiarly 58
Ashley's sister in "Gone With the Wind" 53
Artist's name formed phonetically from his initials 55
“Lord High Everything ___” (title in “The Mikado”) 66
Animation studio that made "The Incredibles" 54
Atlantic City resort, informally, with "the" 54
Alice's foil in ''The Honeymooners'' 56
Ancient Scientology dictator selling papers on the street? 58
Agarn or O'Rourke, in "F Troop": Abbr. 52
Actor Coco who played Milo Perrier in "Murder by Death" 65
Al Capp character shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs 59
Actress Andersson of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" 67
Actress ___ Dawn Chong of "The Color Purple" 54
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” director Nicolas 52
Actor Furlong of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" 55
Apt starter for the first word of the longest answers 53
Actor whose voice is emulated by Snagglepuss the Lion 53
An "animal control warden" used to be called a ___ 60
A hint for the "life insurance" options in this puzzle 64
Adjective forbidden in crosswords because it's gross and bodily 67
Attribute of a liberal, in the eyes of a conservative 53
Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Mr. ____" 57
Abram's original "This Old House" co-host 55
Astin who played Sam in "Lord of the Rings" films 59
Author of the 2006 best seller "Culture Warrior" 58
Actress Lindsay who said "Normalcy is not interesting" 64
A ''That's Entertainment!'' host 52
Anatomical part whose name comes from the Latin for "grape" 69
“___ oÂ’ My Heart” (“Ziegfeld Follies” song) 63
Apparel for a lead actor in "Escape from New York"? 61
Action that makes bad situations worse, and this puzzle's theme 67
Answer to the parental question "What do we say?" 59
Actor roomies' mailbox label that sounds like racing groups? 64
A1: "Our guy is being held by a couple of tough ___ ..." 66
African antelope "caged" in five answers in this puzzle 65
Animated TV series about toddlers that features the Pickles family 66
Actor Robert in the final scene of "The Sopranos" 59
Alfred who coined the term "inferiority complex" 58
Animal visitor to Paris in a classic children's book 56
“It might have ___” (WhittierÂ’s “saddest words”) 68
Air marshal's explanation about keeping his pilots alert? 61
African evergreen whose leaves are chewed as a narcotic 55
Automotive part ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme 57
Alien visitor in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" 58
“Long DayÂ’s Journey Into Night” family name 55
Arm's-length pics of oneself with friends, in modern slang 62
Alexander ___, Russian who popularized a chess opening 54
Archaeologist Louis + actress Farrah = job for a plumber? 57
Asian country in which English is an official language 54
Animal that has something in common with this week's puzzle 63
Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers) 56
Ari Meyer's role on "Kate & Allie" 52
Adolph who coined "All the news that's fit to print" 66
Actor Sheen after starting a new career in piano maintenance? 61
Actress Durance who played Lois Lane on "Smallville" 62
Appealing element in plotless movies, for some: Abbr. 53
Add a building wing to a "Lord of the Rings" actress? 63
Actor who won both comedy and drama Emmys for the same role 59
“How many times __ man turn his head”: Dylan 52
Alanis: "You've washed your ___ of this" 54
Amy's "Parks and Recreation" character 52
Actress Gardner of "The Night of the Iguana" 54
Actor Sitka who appeared in numerous Three Stooges films 56
After the Fire's Falco cover "___ Kommissar" 58
Author of "Underworld" and "Mao II" 55
Antagonist in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" 59
A funny thing happened on the way to this, in an old musical 60
An elderly woman was having dinner with her husband and was ... 63
African city of 2.5+ million founded by the Portuguese 54