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Anton ___ (character voiced by Peter O'Toole in "Ratatouille") 76
"Dancing With the Stars" winner who's an Olympic skating champ 76
"___ O'Riley" (first song on the album "Who's Next") 80
Model who co-wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" 79
Fastest ocean liner ever in a transatlantic crossing (3 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes) 83
Two great genres that for some inexplicable reason don't go well together 77
According to Han, "He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel.You'd like him." 92
Unfinished Henry James work about Gainsborough's "Blue Boy"? 74
Film in which Agnes Moorehead debuted as the title character's mother 73
1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" 78
Voicings of simultaneously-sounded groups of musical notes in which the root note is not in the bass part 105
Oil-based paste mentioned in the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" 84
Ravel's "Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé," e.g. 72
Play king whose first line is "Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester" 93
Wart-covered and hungry for flies or, alternately, have a meeting about one of Jon's pets? 94
Setting of much of the first Sherlock Holmes tale, "A Study in Scarlet" 81
She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" 76
Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle 84
U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake 72
Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds 89
Novel whose first chapter is titled “Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle” 74
Poker occasions "you got to know," according to a Kenny Rogers song 77
“Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” 109
Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers 81
"Flew in from Miami Beach ___" (opening lyric to "Back in the U.S.S.R.") 92
Proposed legislation whose current lead sponsor in the Sen. is Ted Kennedy 74
Words with ''distance'' or ''disadvantage'' 75
"The Big Bang" rapper who voiced a character in "The Rugrats Movie" 87
Noted children's book illustrator (one of six "middle C" people in this puzzle) 93
"The primary factor in a successful attack," per Lord Mountbatten 75
"In fair Verona, where we lay our ___" (second line of "Romeo and Juliet") 94
"The Chronicles of Vladimir ___" (hit young adult book series about a vampire) 88
Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." 74
Copies of "Our Man in Havana," "The Quiet American" and "The End of the Affair"? 110
Pulitzer nominee for the novels "Black Water" and "Blonde" 78
"I ate his liver with some ___ and a nice Chianti": Hannibal Lecter 77
"... and he's got Budweiser and Michelob on tap - excellent ___!" 79
Ohio city where a Burger King worker YouTubed himself bathing in the sink in 2008 81
Org. that suggests Obama's success is attributable to his being half-white 78
Who nobody puts in the corner, according to a line from "Dirty Dancing" 81
Opera character who cries "Il fazzoletto!" ("The handkerchief!") 84
..."I Just Can't Help Believing She Blinded Me With Science" 74
"But why is she blogging in every episode?" (highly literal TV title #1) 82
Cheri who was the voice of Sleeping Beauty in "Shrek the Third" 73
1982 George Clinton song sampled for Snoop's "What's My Name?" 80
Autobiography subtitled "A Baseball Life" by a Yankees bench coach 76
"My plan is to hide inside John's piano and jump out at him"? 75
Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson 80
First of 12 popes (just put the Roman numeral in now and get the name from the crossings) 89
"They tried to make me go to ___, I said, 'No, no, no.'" 74
"I'm ___ Boat" (single featured on "SNL" in 2009) 73
___ to school . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme suggested by the ends of five answers 87
"___ Yu" (collection also known as "The Analects of Confucius") 83
"... Love at first sight? No, she just didn't want to ___ any more! Then I woke up" 97
Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers 127
Lower-tract product whose instructions say "Fasten your seat belts"? 78
Writer of "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another" 107
Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" 124
Where you'll find yourself after cashing in your chips, with "the" 80
"... when I am king, claim thou of me / The ___ of Hereford": "Richard III" 95
Moorish ___ (kind of fish that Willem Dafoe's Gill is, in "Finding Nemo") 87
Band who appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch" 95
Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" 81
Invoice for loofahs with "No-Spin Zone" printed on the handle? 72
"Schindler's ___" (novel on which "Schindler's List" was based) 91
She and Clark Gable were known as "the team that generates steam" 75
"Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you" speaker 74
Device that protects kids from sex and violence, as long as they don't do anything but watch TV 99
Filter "Awake on my airplane, my skin is bare, my skin is ___" 72
"All the world is sad and dreary, everywhere ___" (Stephen Foster) 76
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame the same year as Billie Jean 87
Thomas who was "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination" 111
Word before "knows," "hurts," and "dance now," in various song titles 99
Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years 90
Words with ''step'' or ''I'll get right'' 77
"Make ___" (Picard's command on "Star Trek: T.N.G.") 76
It was once voted "America's Most Innovative Company" by Fortune magazine 87
"The Music and the Mirror" singer in "A Chorus Line" 72
One-named singer/songwriter of the 1970 Woodstock-inspired hit "Lay Down" 83
"What's that D.C. university, hon?" response (from a director and former pitcher)? 96
They're found at the ends of this puzzle's three other longest answers 78
Sports org. whose last game was the Chicago Sting over the Toronto Blizzard 75
"That little darkroom where negatives are developed," per Michael Pritchard 85
Singer with the so-called "hardest-working legs in show business" 75
"... but the daughters acted swiftly and drank from the enchanted waters of ___ Falls ..." 100
___ fish (creatures that can translate any language in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") 108
Flower whose name is derived from the Turkish/Persian for "turban" 76
1983 film about a brother and sister's journey from Guatemala to Los Angeles 80
Brand whose limited edition wasabi ginger flavor had damn well better become permanent 86
Entertainer whose last name is the past tense of a synonym of his first name 76
Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years 74
1962 Anne Sexton poetry collection whose title comes from “Macbeth” 75
Phineas ___ (lead role on the 1980s sci-fi series "Voyagers!") 72
Pop group whose first Top 40 album was, appropriately, "Arrival" 74
"You haven't lived until you've died in California" speaker 77
Jack who quipped "A funny thing happened to my mother one day: Me" 76
Magazine whose debut issue featured a cover photo of Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington 89
One of the girls in the Madonna children's book "The English Roses" 81
''Before I __ at You Again'' (''Camelot'' song) 79
"___ Myself" ("The Producers" number sung by Hitler) 72