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Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) 74
Longtime G.E. chief with the best seller "Jack: Straight From the Gut" 80
Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round 79
Language producing ''shampoo'' and ''pajamas'' 78
Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters 96
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #4: tape some toothpicks to a negligee and bam, you're a ___ 104
Like the Jordan River, according to "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" 75
Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever 72
Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" 117
Little ___ (nickname for the Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) 78
Legislation recently re-introduced by Edward Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney: Abbr. 79
Language from which "jungle" and "pundit" are derived 73
Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme 83
Legendary Memphis site where Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Great Balls of Fire" 85
Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" 72
Like 49.1 pecent of the population, according to a 2000 report by the U.S. Census Bureau 88
Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses 84
Lennon/McCartney song whose title words follow "They'll be glad, you're not ..." 98
Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" 90
Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? 79
London-based dubstep artist whose name is pronounced like a math operation 74
Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers 75
Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams 88
Lead singer of the band whose name is derived from a "Barbarella" villain's name 94
Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" 74
Longtime coach of the University of Chicago who was a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame 105
Locale of a John McCain statue that calls him a "famous air pirate" 77
Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? 79
Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" 98
Lowish varieties of "vertical deflection traffic calming devices" 75
Letter that, as it appears in the middle of this grid, can precede the first words of the starred entries 105
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ 116
Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" 73
Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" 72
Language we got the words "basmati" and "juggernaut" from 77
Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" 91
Landmark named "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon completion in 1936 77
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #1: raid the knife drawer, put a gold chain around your neck, and next thing you know you're a ___ 142
Louis ___ (trial lawyer and author of "My Life in Court," 1962) 73
Leader played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 Libyan film "Lion of the Desert" 83
Literary captain who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" 77
Lizzie Borden's blows – "Easy Pieces" ÷ proverbial crowd = 82
Literary character whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" 78
Like people in a group hug, presumably (and a group hug involving Tributes #7, #8, and #11) 91
Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." 72
Longtime bar band that had a cameo on "The Simpsons" episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze" 103
Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix 76
Likely 2008 playoff team in both the American and National leagues, on the scoreboard 85
Like fish for fish & chips -- or this puzzle's four theme entries 73
Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" 84
Lord Nelson's famous Trafalgar quote, "England expects that every man will ___" 93
London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? 116
Location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 87
Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" 81
Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch 97
Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) 128
Line from 1989's "Dead Pesto Society" about grabbing ten cents? 77
Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" 82
Like the order of the letters in the first words of the starred entries, before being shaken up 95
Lead-in to "Five Dollars" and "Sixpence" in song titles 75
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ 116
Lying in the mud during a freezing storm, in "The Divine Comedy"? 75
Like you after drinking Red Bull, according to commercials, in scientific terms 79
Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" 101
Literary experimentalist Georges with "Life: A User's Manual" 75
Letter abbr. that tells the reader there's something else in the envelope 77
Lover's woe ... or something found, literally, in the 4th, 5th, 8th and 11th rows of this puzzle 100
Locale of St. Catherine's Monastery, said to be the world's oldest working monastery 92
Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" 90
Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers 82
Literary character played in film by Charles Laughton, Anthony Perkins and Geoffrey Rush 88
Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work 99
Long rant about how the captain was mean, the shanties sucked, and everyone got scurvy? 87
Language in which "Pakistan" means "land of the pure" 73
Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study 111
LaBeouf of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" 73
Literary character whose name is said to mean "laughing water" 72
Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid 86
Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" 74
Little ones who, they say, are made up of the ends of this puzzle's four longest entries 92
Long-extinct German dialect of which the epic poem "The Heliand" is the only known sample 99
Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" 87
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" 83
Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan 111
Literary character who asks "Would you, could you, in the dark?" 74
Language where "Jak se máš?" means "How are you?" 75
Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it 94
Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed 90
Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" 107
Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" 87
Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" 99
License plate (and character played by Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down" 83
Looks proudly [get xword deals by signing up for our free news list! - avxwords.com] 84
Lebowitz who said "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying" 93
Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues 83
Like pronouns such as "myself" which refer back to the subject of the clause 86
Like dictionaries without a word meaning "raisable castle door"? 74
Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat" 74
Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid 107
Lindsay who tied with herself for a Worst Actress Razzie by playing two roles 77