Clues

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William Shakespeare on the knuckleball ("Henry VI, Part II," II, i, 6) 80
Whom you might see in your rearview mirror if you ignore the above signs 72
Weird Al hit with the lyric "I don't care if you're full" 75
When Kathie Lee and Hoda show up to destroy what's left of the "Today" show's reputation 106
Word derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning "one-twelfth" 78
What one gets by multiplying the numbers in this puzzle's theme answers 75
Website with a focus on step-by-step instructions to "just about everything" 86
When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon" 72
Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" 101
Work unit that appears far less often in crosswords than "erg" 72
Winner of the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent (2012) 73
Word with "aside," "down," "out" or "on" 80
Washed-up-but-still-nominally-entertaining "Dogg After Dark" host, casually 85
Wisecrack about an actor waking up from his nap on the set of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? 100
Who said "I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage" 136
With "The," 1978 horror mystery with John Huston--refilmed in 3-D? 76
What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like "The Man in Black"? 89
With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? 78
Wanda and Darryl's firstborn in the comic strip "Baby Blues" 74
What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller 74
Where there are "many ways to have a good time," in a 1978 hit 72
What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol 94
Word for "beginning" that encloses four answers in this puzzle 72
What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me 94
Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." 101
Where Claudius is during Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy 79
Where Mitt Romney built a treehouse for his former employees? (... à la Michael Bloomberg in 2007) 101
Who said "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin" 92
Who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" 83
Words after ''see,'' ''hear'' or ''speak'' 90
Web site with the headings "Toys & Hobbies" and "Music" 79
When a larger company buys a smaller company and incorporates its employees, in modern jargon 93
Word with an English homophone that translates to "nous" in its language 82
What Fido's recently purchased tether gave him (with "a")? 72
Walter who wrote "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" 75
What some astronomers did with their teeth when the remotest planet in the Solar System was demoted? 100
What Soul Asylum's phone won't do in "Somebody to Shove" 74
Woman's name heard in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" 75
Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" 84
Word that can follow the first word of this puzzle's four longest answers 77
What it takes not to say "I see you've put on a little weight" 76
Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary 72
With "The," Entertainment Weekly's pick for worst TV show of 2008 79
With "The," 1989 Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner film that starts with a card game? 93
Wordsmith who wrote "Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague" 84
Word repeated three times in the score to John Cage's "4'33"" 84
Word with ''hitching'' or ''scratching'' 72
What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style 123
Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" 122
Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" 90
Whaleship that's the subject of the book "In the Heart of the Sea" 80
When accused of being "out of uniform," what the naked private said he was wearing? 93
Where this grid's starred answers' ends have particular relevance 73
Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries 76
What one of the hypocycloids in the Pittsburgh Steelers' logo represents 76
Words that fill both blanks in the 1990 Almadovar film "___ Up, ___ Down" 83
Words that can precede both parts of this puzzle's six longest answers 74
What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like a "Star Wars" actress? 92
What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney 74
Waitress: "What'll ya have, Rocky?" Rocky: "Let's see ... some diced ___ ..." 105
Words before "though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful" 75
Word with ''temporary'' or ''practical'' 72
Wine that can't decide what it is (from a stand-up comedian and a fictional newsman)? 89
Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers 73
When Jaques says, "All the world's a stage" in "As You Like It" 87
Word fragment repeated multiple times by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October 94
Word that could mean “force vacationers to vacate” or “one who takes alternate routes” 102
Words repeated by Samuel L. Jackson in the diner scene from "Pulp Fiction" 84
Wheels on loan ... or, as the circles show, what four puzzle answers have done? 79
Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle 79
What the pool player started "playing" when his favorite song came on the radio? 90
Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" 129
Who wrote "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens" 112
Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? 78
With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" 106
Washington newspaper that ended its printed version in March 2009, for short 76
Word after "Don't pass" and "Don't come" on a craps table 85
Where to meet for drinks with Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Chandler 78
Whence the line "A person's a person, no matter how small" 72
What one achieves by smashing one's malfunctioning smartphone against a branch? 83
Warning sign at a train station's food court? (NOTE: The original sign, without my additions, actually exists. It's in Grand Central Terminal in NYC, on the lower level — the food court level. The sig 215
What many sports cars lack, and, in a way, what the ends of the starred answers are 83
Words before and after "my lads" in the United States Merchant Marine anthem 86
Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech 109
Word repeated in Shelley's line "___ happiness, ___ majesty, ___ fame" 84
What 16th-17th century countess Elizabeth Bathory reputedly bathed in to stay younger 85
Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" 91
Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers 81
Word fragment repeated by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October 79
What you get when you blend the results of this puzzle's recipe instructions 80
We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago 95
Warning label on consumer products that one might be tempted to chew on, say 76
Winner over Ohio State in 1935's so-called "Game of the Century" 78
When the line "Double, double toil and trouble" is delivered in "Macbeth" 93
What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit 101
With "The," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy 78
Word with "Happy" and "Death Valley" in old TV titles 73
What Van Halen's "hot shoe" would do down the avenue, in "Panama" 89
What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order 77
Words with ''a pistol'' or ''a firecracker'' 76