Clues

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Rap/country collaboration with the album "Defying Gravity with Dr. Octagon"? 86
River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" 81
Record label that released the "Tommy" and "Grease" soundtracks 83
Rank of Barry Sadler, the singer of "The Ballad of the Green Berets": Abbr. 85
Ripley who wrote the "Gone With the Wind" sequel "Scarlett" 79
Radio host who said "My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life" 101
Reply to "Lackaday, Lady Macbeth, what shouldst be said to the cursed dog to make it leave the castle?" 113
R&B singer with "Like a Surgeon" (no relation to the Weird Al song) 81
Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. 74
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
Rhyme scheme for Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" 77
Real-life talk show host played by Jay Mohr on 1990s "Saturday Night Live" episodes 93
Ron who was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager 77
Rule for finding buried treasure ... and a hint to making sense of this puzzle 78
Rand who said "A culture is made, or destroyed, by its articulate voices." 84
Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" 81
Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera 79
R&B singer arrested in 1993 for an "overly suggestive stage performance" 86
Redistributionist's catchphrase ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters 92
Refrain lyric from "Do-Re-Mi" ("The Sound of Music") 73
Reasonable response to "Do you think BP is handling the oil spill adequately?" 88
Reverend whose name is linked to terms like "Pazz and Jop," and this puzzle's theme answers 105
Rapper who said "My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform" 103
Richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood, according to Forbes 74
Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" 85
Record label whose first release was Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" 83
Reply to "Perchance, Hamlet, is this barbecue spice mix what ye seek?" 80
Rapper with the 3x platinum single "Hold On, We're Going Home" 76
R&B group with the 1995 #2 album "The Show, the After Party, the Hotel" 85
River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" 89
Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" 74
Reply to "would Madame like fresh pepper on the beef bourguignon?" 76
Radio host who said of U2: "These guys are from England and who gives a shit?" 88
Rock song with the lyric "A big-legged woman ain't got no soul" 77
Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 92
Racer Protasiewicz or ex-prime minister Jaroszewicz (or a variant spelling of Tchaikovsky's first name) 107
Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) 74
Rapper with the line "if you catch me at the border I got visas in my name" 85
Rap hit with the refrain "Got my mind on my money and my money on my mind" 84
Reviewer on "Das Kapital": "Its arguments don't hold water" 83
Radio station whose call letters include the first three letters of its Ohio city 81
Racehorse whose 1955 Kentucky Derby win kept Nashua from taking the Triple Crown 80
Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" 77
Rare large white animal killed by hunters in Nova Scotia last fall, which sparked an outrage due to its sacred status to the Mi'kmaq people 143
Result of "too much change in too short a period of time" (Alvin Toffler) 83
Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role 78
Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" 95
Remington owner Victor who said "I liked it so much, I bought the company" 84
Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? 89
River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" 93
Repetitive Brooklyn rockers with the 2008 album "Saint Dymphna" 73
Response to "Swiper, no swiping!" on "Dora the Explorer" 76
Rejected Supreme Court nominee whose name has become a verb meaning "attack relentlessly" 99
Red Sox pitcher Bruce who was selected to be the 1986 World Series MVP just before the Mets forced Game 7 105
Robert who won Oscars for both writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" 82
Richards who played Lex Murphy in the first two "Jurassic Park" movies 80
Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" 103
Ratt "Feel the heat of the rhythm. Feel the heat of my hand. ___" 75
Rice-___ Stadium (setting of the ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Olympics) 76
Response to "Tom!" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" 72
Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" 90
Record label that Paul McCartney blames for the Beatles' absence on iTunes 78
Reply to "Were any people left after Dick and Harry departed?" 72
Rapper with the recent "Illmatic XX" twentieth-anniversary rerelease 78
Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" 86
Racer who has led the most number of laps in Indianapolis 500 history (644) 75
Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" 72
Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter 74
Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" 83
Revolutionary War general with the nickname "The Hero of the Two Worlds" 82
Recently revived TV show with trivia-filled bubbles called "info nuggets" 83
Rock grp. once promoted as "the English guys with the big fiddles" 76
Richard who played the garage attendant in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" 83
Reynolds' impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? 94
Reception assistant, or what you might incite if you don't perform mitzvahs? 80
Result of not following through (of which there are four examples in this puzzle's grid) 92
Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" 72
Rihanna lyric "Got my Ray ___ on and I'm feeling hella cool tonight" 82
Randy Watson's overrated soul band, in "Coming to America" 72
Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in turn, of each starred answer would be touch-typed 154
R&B group with the 1963 chart-topper "Easier Said Than Done," with "the" 96
Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" 97
Rossellini film renamed "Ways of Love" in its American version 72
Real-life death penalty opponent played by Sarandon in "Dead Man Walking" 83
Rooney __, who played Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" 77
Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light 119
Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The") 77
Radio studio feature, and what each of this puzzle's four other longest answers literally is 96
Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. 78
Ring org. with a "Minimumweight" category (less than 105 pounds) 74
Rock star who offered his help to Nixon in combating "the hippie elements" 84
Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid 106
Reply to "Mark Antony, dost thou require any of my Spock accessories for the costume party?" 102
Retailer whose "Gutvik" children's bed translates to "good fuck" in German 98
Rap/country collaboration with a Dirty South version of "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy"? 99
Regained one's winning status ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters 84
Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them 87
Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 75
Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme 77
Run in the wash[To fully understand this week's and last week's puzzles, SEE NOTE ABOVE] 96