Clues

TextLength
Thrilla in Manila fighter 25
The Sahara's main feature 29
Type of TV tube 15
Tricker 7
Thundering shower 17
Tie a boat securely 19
Testifier's phrase 22
Track action 12
They respond to your reservations 33
The youngest Broflovski 23
The cellar, in sports 21
Tropical starch source 22
Threatening alternative 23
Thoroughly blue 15
Trauma remnant 14
T.R.'s "Good!" 28
Treated with carbon dioxide 27
Traditional Christmas burners 29
Twelve inches of supply boat? 29
Treated 7
Top of royalty 14
To a great degree 17
Testudinates 12
Tracking ability 16
Touching sport? 15
This could be crazy 19
Trombone device 15
The green fairy 15
TV toon boy 11
The pairs of letters inserted into each of this puzzle's theme answers, for example 87
Tom Waits flame Jones 21
Two-time opponent of Ike 24
Three-star VIP 14
Target of criticism in Vincent Bugliosi's 1996 book "Outrage" 75
To the max 10
The art of creating melodies 28
The previous spring, say 24
Trivial Pursuit wedges, vis-à-vis the whole pie 50
They may be high or heavy 25
Teatro La Fenice offering 25
They keep skeletons in closets 30
TD trailers 11
Tree on a Connecticut state quarter 35
Take of song with vocal track left out 38
Tests the meter 15
Talent for making millions 26
Talks too freely 16
The nod 7
Tpk. or hwy. 12
They dig, daddy-o 17
Twirls 6
TV host with a Top Ten List 27
Tire parts 10
Takes up residence 18
The "I" of I.M.F.: Abbr. 34
Takes to Sardi's, say 25
Title girl in an 1884 operetta 30
Titan or Minuteman, e.g. 24
Twist and reel 14
The Muses, as a group 21
The man behind Bunker 21
Temporarily blinds, in a way 28
Too snug 8
Tattoo's boss on "Fantasy Island" 47
Texas senator Ted 17
Threesome needed in Wagner's "Ring" cycle 55
Teeny bites 11
Timber treatment 16
Transfusion infusion 20
Tactical maneuver 17
Tamiroff of "Topkapi" 31
Trip-hopping Brits ___ Pimps 28
Tie-ups 7
The Colts retired his #19 25
Trading letters 15
Title Drake held 16
Thinker, for one 16
Top of a jar 12
Tuning note instrument 22
Tramcar load 12
Trust busters? 14
Town hall, for one 18
Therapy goals 13
Tax, old style 14
Thrift shop activity 20
They might be candied 21
Type of beer or miss 20
Tow truck type 14
Tearing spot 12
Thumb drive alternative 23
Tower beside a barn 19
There are 220 in a furlong: Abbr. 33
Toward once 12
Time can do it to all wounds, it's said 43
TV actress Gimpel 17
They're rolling in petrol 29
That thing, in Spanish 22
The civil engineer ... 22
Talk show clip-on 17
Tense times for troops 22