Referring Clues

• "___ alive!"
• Part of T.G.I.F.
• "___ De-Lovely"
• "A bird," "a plane" or "Superman" preceder
• Monty Python show opener
• The thing is?
• The "I" in T.G.I.F.
• W. C. Fields film "___ a Gift"
• "___ Not Unusual"
• "___ a Joke, Son" (1947 flick)
• "___ a Living"
• Tag pursuers
• "___ no use"
• "When ___ Love" (Van Halen hit)
• The "I" of T.G.I.F.
• "___ Howdy Doody time!"
• Catchers in tag
• Tag players
• Tommy Dorsey's "___ Always You"
• "___ true!"
• "___ Over" (1964 hit)
• "___ Howdy Doody time..."
• "___ your dime!"
• "___ time"
• "___ show time!"
• With 112-Across, enthusiastic review
• They're inhuman
• With 52-Down, words of agreement
• "___ a small world..."
• "___ in the bag"
• The "I" in T.G.I.F.
• Leonard Bernstein's "___ Love"
• "___ Howdy Doody time!"
• "___ magic!"
• "___ a girl!"
• For what ___ worth
• Gore's "___ My Party"
• "___ the law"
• Roy Orbison's "___ Over"
• "___ a deal!"
• "___ in his kiss" (1964 pop lyric)
• "___ not fair!"
• "___ You" (song from "The Music Man")
• T.G.I.F. part
• "___ a Blue World" (1940 hit)
• "___ Too Late" (King hit)
• "___ only me"
• "___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
• "___ So Easy"
• Certain seekers
• Possessive pronoun
• They've been tagged
• Ricky Nelson's "___ Late"
• Carole King's "___ Too Late"
• "___ Too Late" (Carole King hit)
• "___ a small world ..."
• "___ over!"
• That one's
• "___ a date!"
• Tag antagonists
• "___ been real!"
• The "I" in the answer to 1-Across
• Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing
• "___ been real!"
• Part of FWIW
• "For what ___ worth ..."
• Part of F.W.I.W.
• "___ a go!"
• Perry Como's "___ Impossible"
• "Baby ___ You" (1962 hit)
• The "I" in F.W.I.W.
• Comforting words
• "___ true"
• "___ Alive!" (1974 thriller)
• "___ my fault!"
• Kind of elf
• "___ O.K."
• With 57-Across, welcome words when the check arrives
• With 6-Down, "Curious ..."
• "___ only money!"
• Word before "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
• "___ a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963 movie)
• "___ So Easy" (Ronstadt hit)
• "___ the truth!"
• Where ___ at
• "___ Alive!" (1974 camp classic)
• Part of TGIF
• "___ up to you"
• "___ a Wonderful Life"
• "___ showtime!"
• TGIF part
• Orbison's "___ Over"
• Oft-mispunctuated pronoun
• Word that often precedes "showtime"
• "___ Impossible"
• "___ a Sin" ('87 Pet Shop Boys hit)
• "___ never too late!"
• More of the quip
• "___ no skin off my nose"
• "___ a Long Way to Tipperary"
• Possessive that often has an erroneous apostrophe
• "___ a Most Unusual Day"
• "___ About Time" (1960s sitcom)
• "___ about time!"
• Genderless ones
• The "I" in TGIF
• "___ now or never"
• "___ been real"
• "___ not my fault"
• "___ a boy!"
• Apostropheless possessive
• "___ the economy, stupid"
• "___ no use!"
• "___ me"
• "___ the economy, stupid!" (Bill Clinton, 1992)
• "___ My Party" (1963 hit by Lesley Gore)
• "___ your call"
• "___ now or never!"
• "... till ___ over"
• For what ___ worth
• "___ no use!"
• "___ only money"
• With 23-Down, "Duck soup!"
• Part of 46-Down
• "___ show time!"
• "___ Growing" (Temptations hit)
• "___ party time!"
• "Don't judge a book by ___ cover"
• FWIW part
• I Can't Believe ___ Not Butter! (bread spread brand)
• "Every dog has ___ day"
• Word at the start of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
• "... ___ how you play the game"
• "___ a long story"
• "___ the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
• "___ Not About the Bike" (Lance Armstrong book)
• "___ My Party" (1963 #1 hit for Lesley Gore)
• With 39-Down, words found on some balloons
• The "I" in 23-Down
• "___ on me"
• "___ no big deal"
• "___ only a game"
• "... for what ___ worth"
• "___ a Wonderful Life"
• "___ now or never!"
• Oft-mistyped possessive
• Where-at link
• With 23-Down, "You're on!"
• Tag chasers
• "___ my turn"
• "___ in the bag!"
• "___ not my problem"
• It is in most dialogue?
• "___ a girl!"
• "___ in the bag"
• "___ been fun"
• "___ your move!"
• "___ been real!"
• A thing's
• "___ a Wonderful Life"
• "___ a living"
• "___ about time!"
• "___ yours!"
• Some tag players
• Tag needs
• "___ time!"
• "___ a deal!"
• "For what ___ worth . . ."
• "___ De-Lovely"
• "___ Not for Me to Say"
• "___ Not Unusual"
• That thing's
• "___ Now or Never"
• "... for what ___ worth"
• "___ your move"
• "For what ___ worth ..."
• "... for what ___ worth"
• "___ a bird ..."
• Word often mistakenly apostrophized
• "Live from New York, ___ Saturday Night!"
• Not his or hers
• "___ My Party"
• Word often given an unnecessary apostrophe
• "___ a girl!"
• "___ alive!"
• "___ Not Unusual"
• Oft-misspelled possessive
• Of a thing
• Genderless possessive
• "___ a deal!"
• Tagged game-players
• "___ always something"
• Sexless possessive
• Every dog has ___ day
• ". . . ___ how you play the game"
• Sit, differently
• "___ My Party"
• Start of Mr. Rogers' song
• "___ the least I can do"
• "___ Magic" (Doris Day hit)
• "___ not for me to say . . ."
• "___ a small world . . ."
• Antagonists in the game of tag
• "___ Not for Me to Say"
• Start of a Carole King song title
• TV's "--- Academic"
• "___ Alive" (1974 thriller)
• "___ you!"
• Often-misspelled possessive
• ___ "a Gift "(W.C. Fields film)
• "___ only a game"
• Neutral possessive pronoun
• "___ a beautiful day in the neighborhood"
• "___ no skin off my back"
• "___ So Easy" (Linda Ronstadt hit)
• "___ a date!"
• Where ___ at
• "___ a done deal"
• Roy Orbison's "___ Over"
• "___ complicated"
• "___ only money"
• "___ Raining Men"
• "___ all in your mind"
• The thing's
• The "I" in FWIW
• "___ for me to know ..."
• "___ all in your mind"
• The “I” in T.G.I.F.
• “___ Too Late” (Carole King hit)
• "For what ___ worth …"
• "___ been fun"
• "___ my turn"
• "___ not my problem"
• "___ in the bag!"
• "___ on me"
• "___ a done deal"
• "___ complicated"
• Belonging to the Thing?
• Word often mis-apostrophized
• "--- now or never!"
• "--- show time!"
• "--- about time!"
• "For what --- worth ..."
• "--- your move"
• "--- a deal"
• Synonym (and anagram) of 79 Down
• "___ your move!"
• "___ yours!"
• "___ time!"
• "___ not for me to say ..."
• "___ for me to know ..."
• Possessive adjective
• Word with an extraneous apostrophe, often
• Contraction that gives many spellers trouble
• With 1-Down, "Piece of cake!"
• "___ official ..."
• "___ mine!"
• "___ mine!"
• Some players in tag
• Lead-in to a date?
• First word of "A Hard Day's Night"
• It is, condensed
• It is, condensed
• Often-misused possessive
• "___ later than you think"
• "___ not my fault!"
• "___ me" (phone comment)
• With 13-Across, coming-out phrase?
• Word often missing an apostrophe
• Impersonal pronoun
• Cole Porter's "___ De-Lovely"
• "___ just not fair"
• "___ on now!" (fighter's words)
• Before-time link
• Part 3 of the quotation
• 'Monty Python' opener
• '___ Impossible'
• 'Monty Python' intro
• '___ your loss!'
• '___ been real!'
• Roy Orbison's '___ Over'
• '___ been swell!'
• '___ a deal!'
• '___ been real'
• '___ All in the Game'
• '___ a girl!'
• '___ Not Unusual'
• '___ a Small World'
• '___ Now or Never'
• '___ Not for Me to Say'
• '___ a Cryin' Shame'
• '... ___ Superman!'
• '___ a Wonderful Life'
• With 25-Down, '___ Unusual'
• '___ De-Lovely'
• 'Monty Python' starter
• With 10-Down, '___ Unusual'
• 'No, ___ Superman!'
• 'If ___ Tuesday, ...'
• '___ My Party'
• '___ a Mad, Mad, ...'
• '___ Now or Never'
• '___ now or never!'
• With 40-Across, breakup statement
• '___ a boy!'
• '___ so you!'
• 'I' of TGIF
• '___ about time!'
• '___ a living!'
• '___ a long story'
• '___ a go!'
• '___ magic!'
• '___ over!'
• '___ all true!'
• '___ showtime!'
• '___ all good'
• '___ a date!'
• '___ in there!'
• '___ the law'
• '___ a snap!'
• "___ too risky"
• Word with an erroneous apostrophe, sometimes
• Inhuman creatures
• 'TGIF' part
• "Baby ___ You": Shirelles hit
• Nitpicky word for grammarians
• Word with a mistaken apostrophe, often
• "___ Hard" (1982 album by the Who)
• Word with a gratuitous apostrophe, often
• '___ that time'
• Identification introduction
• '___ only a paper moon, ...'
• With 40-Across, a chorus line ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
• '___ in the bag!'
• "___ disposable!"
• TGIF's 'I'
• "___ open!"
• "___ all in the wrist"
• "___ Too Late" (Carole King hit)
• Word often given an incorrect apostrophe
• '___ all good!'
• '___ Complicated'
• "___ a trap!"
• "___ a fact!"
• Doris Day hit "___ Magic"
• Word with an incorrect apostrophe, often
• "___ never going to work!"
• '___ alive!' (Frankenstein cry)
• Monster's possessive
• With 18-Down, exclamation in "Frankenstein"
• "It is" variation
• "___ Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
• TGIF segment
• "___ snowing!"
• With 36-Down, "Easy!"
• "___ Now or Never" (Presley hit)
• Common possessive
• "Don't Think Twice, ___ All Right"
• "___ Greek to me"
• Oft-mispunctuated possessive
• "___ like I said ..."
• "___ My Party": Lesley Gore hit
• Contraction that gives trouble to many
• Ran ___ course
• "___ a rip-off!"
• Common contraction
• Oft-mismarked possessive
• " ... book by ___ cover"
• With 11-Down, "See you then!"
• "Where ___ at"
• "___ magic"
• Neutral pronoun
• "... and everything in ___ place"
• It is shortened?
• The Who's "___ Hard"
• Belonging to that thing
• 'Every dog has ___ day'
• Word repeated in the "Superman" intro
• Commonly mistyped word
• Porter's "___ De-Lovely"
• "___ official"
• "___ over"
• "___ Too Late" (Carole King)
• "___ all good"
• "___ none of your business"
• '___ my party and ...'
• What c'est can mean
• Frequently mispunctuated word
• "___ Not Unusual" (Tom Jones)
• '___ all over!'
• The "I" of TGIF
• Neutral possessive
• Handler best seller "Are You There, Vodka? ___ Me, Chelsea"
• '___ a living'
• Oft-mispunctuated word
• Cheez- ___ (crackers)
• Neither his nor hers
• "___ a most unusal day"
• On ___ own terms
• "___ My Life" (Bon Jovi song)
• "___ Complicated" (Meryl Streep movie)
• ' Impossible'
• "___ Now or Never" (1960 chart-topper by Elvis Presley)
• ' De-Lovely'
• "___ a miracle!"
• Inhuman ones
• "___ Showtime at the Apollo"
• "___ a beautiful morning"
• Word with "too late"
• Pronoun
• With 45-Down, phrase accompanying a handshake
• "___ no biggie"
• "___ a beautiful morning" (Rascals lyric)
• FW*W
• "___ only love"
• "___ Late" (Ricky Nelson hit)
• "Look, ___ a miracle!"
• ___ a boy!
• Belonging to a thing
• "- true!"
• "Really, ___ nothing"
• Mail carrier's pun (part 4)
• "Are you sure ___ OK?"
• "Hey Vern, ___ Ernest!"
• "___ Magic," Doris Day hit
• Not his or hers?
• I, in some initialisms
• 'FWIW' part
• "So ___ you"
• "___ a trick!"
• "___ not what you think!"
• Post-___
• ____ a boy!
• With 12-Down, "Gimme that!"
• They play tag
• Word enoting ownership
• "___ a Small World"
• "___ never too late"
• "___ no problem!"
• Word that is not possessive with an apostrophe
• ' been real'
• Word often wrongly apostrophized
• With 50 Down, frustration exclamation
• Introduction introducer
• "___ All Too Much" (Beatles song)
• With 42-Down, "We have the OK"
• First word said after a birth
• Something often preceding "you" or "yours"
• Part 7 of today's quote
• Possessive often containing a mistaken apostrophe
• Neuter possessive
• Often-incorrectly apostrophized pronoun
• Identification lead-in
• Possessive often written incorrectly
• "___ so you!"
• "___ a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
• "___ my pleasure!"
• "___ been a while"
• Of that one
• Old TV's "___ Academic"
• With 37-Across, "No problem"
• "___ Not Easy Being Green"
• Seekers in a kid's game
• ' a deal!'
• Gender-neutral possessive
• '___ a go'
• "___ only me!"
• Word often improperly punctuated
• "___ All Over Now" (Rolling Stones hit)
• "___ a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963 film)
• With 11-Down, 1970 Perry Como hit
• "___ you I love"
• "___ not up to me"
• '___ all true'
• ' a Wonderful Life'
• "___ your turn"
• Thing's pronoun
• Contraction
• "___ Pat"
• Contraction for it is
• "___ time for dinner!"
• "___ going to be a great day!"
• "___ time for bed"
• "___ very nice to see you"
• "___ a beautiful day"
• Contraction of it is
• Anagram of sit
• "___ a beautiful day22
• "___ your move22
• Word often mis-apostrophe'd
• "___ what's for dinner"
• "___ time to go"
• Favorite word of nitpicky grammarians
• "___ just what I've always wanted!"
• Possessive pronoun for a thing
• Some tagged players
• "___ not too late!"
• Every Rose Has ___ Thorn
• Beck: "Where ___ At"
• Men At Work: "___ a Mistake"
• Boston "___ Easy"
• Supertramp "___ Raining Again"
• Billy Joel "___ Still Rock and Roll to Me"
• Buffalo Springfield "For What ___ Worth"
• "___ the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
• ZZ Top "___ Only Love"
• Bon Jovi "___ My Life"
• Squeeze "If ___ Love"
• Violent Femmes "Yeah ___ gone daddy gone"
• 'Tis merely another form
• Possessive? It is!
• •Tis indeed part of Whitsuntide
• The thing is, one of the bits is missing!
• Belonging to something nonhuman
• With 43-Across, treater's words
• "Hello, ___ me" (Adele lyric)
• "___ Over" (Roy Orbison hit)
• Belonging to that
• 1964 Roy Orbison hit "___ Over"
• Ricky Nelson hit "___ Late"
• "Where ___ At" (Beck song)
• "___ love's illusions I recall..."
• Bryan Adams "___ Only Love"
• Word with "only money"
• TV's "___ Academic"
• "___ a hit!"
• "___ not a tumor!" (classic rebuke in "Kindergarten Cop")
• "___ not you, ___ me" (break-up phrase)
• "Tipperary" tune start
• "___ Quiet Uptown" ("Hamilton" number)
• Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and ___ Discontents”
• "___ Over" (Roy Orbison song)
• Possessive without an apostrophe
• Monster's pronoun
• 'Tis (2'1)
• Belonging to it
• It is (2'1)
• His, hers & ___
• "___ all Greek to me"
• "___ the pits"
• 'Tis wrong to sit badly
• "___ Raining Men" (Weather Girls song)
• "___ no wonder!"
• "___ Complicated" (Streep movie)
• TGIF word
• ' showtime!'
• "___ nothing to worry about"
• "___ the new Mother Nature taking over"
• For what - worth link
• "___ not rocket science"
• "___ over" ("We're done")
• Cousin of hers
• "Now ___ official!"
• 'Tis anagram
• Apostrophe-free possessive
• "___ a beautiful day in the neighborhood": Mr. Rogers
• "___ yours": "My gift"
• "___ a Sin": Pet Shop Boys hit
• "___ a good thing!"
• "___ go time!"
• They're tagged
• Word with "a date"
• "___ Not Unusual" (Tom Jones standard)
• "Baby, ___ You"
• "___ a good day to go surfing"
• "___ 5 o'clock somewhere!"
• "___ fleece was ..."
• "___ been a long time"
• "___ Quiet Uptown": "Hamilton" song
• "___ a Gift"
• "___ all my fault"
• First word of Mr. Rogers' song
• Word before "a bird," "a plane" and "Superman!"
• "___ Been Awhile": Staind song
• "___ never too late to learn"
• Where-at filler
• "___ no bother"
• This may be breathlessly possessive
• “___ complicated”
• “___ Now or Never”
• “___ my pleasure!”
• ___ only natural
• "___ not my call"
• "___ a Shame" (Spinners hit)
• Middle of a mountaineering explanation
• Often-mispunctuated possessive
• Common recipient of an erroneous apostrophe
• “___ De-Lovely”
• "___ all a blur"
• "___ on!"
• Word often mispunctuated
• Word with "about time"
• “___ been real!”
• Contraction with "your move"
• With 9-Down, response to a knock at the door
• "___ nothing new"
• “___ never too late!”
• Belonging to that thing over there
• With 60-Across, "That's right"
• “___ been swell!”
• "___ not the end of the world"
• "___ not over"
• 'Tis different but means the same
• With 55-Across, film comedy bomb of 1994
• "___ Quiet Uptown" (song from "Hamilton")
• Introduction starter
• "___ Gonna Be Me" (NSYNC song)
• "I should be into this guy / But ___ just a waste of time" (34-Across lyric)
• "Baby, ___ you / You're the one I love ..."
• "___ time to replace that bulb"
• "___ Tricky" (Run-DMC hit)
• "___ time for breakfast!"
• "___ beyond me"
• Often-mispunctuated word
• "___ time for a hot bath"
• "___ been a pleasure!"
• "___ time to do a good deed"
• "___ a little too cold"
• "Well, ___ about time!"
• "___ pretty unusual"
• "___ no surprise"
• "___ tough, but I can do it"
• "I wonder if ___ going to rain"
• The "I" of FWIW
• "___ Your Thing" (Isley Brothers hit)
• "When ___ snowing, break out the sleds"
• Repeated contraction in the '50s TV "Superman" intro
• "___ a long way from here to there"
• "___ really not a big deal"
• With 15-Down, brow-wiping comment
• "___ a whole thing"
• "___ all over now"
• 'Tis all mixed up?
• "___ ok to not be ok"
• "If ___ really about to rain, I'm not going"
• With 51-Across, package recipient's cry
• "Oh, ___ on!"
• "- Not Unusual"
• Part 4 of the quip
• "Lay back, ___ all been done before"
• "- a Small World"
• "- a girl!"
• Site of many errant apostrophes
• "___ been a long day"
• "___ kind of a long story ..."
• "___ about time you got here!"
• "- a Wonderful Life"
• "Hi, ___ me"
• "- been swell!"
• Gender-neutral possessive pronoun
• "___ not you ..."
• "- not for me to say"
• "___ a bird! ___ a plane! ___ Superman!"
• "___ about time you got that tooth out!"
• "___ about time you stopped that!"
• "- been real!"
• "- My Turn" (Diana Ross hit song)
• "___ a good day for raking leaves!"
• "- a miracle!"
• "What ___ Like" (1998 hit by Everlast)
• "___ National Fall-Madly-In-Love-Day" (Mindy Nettifee poem)
• "- your loss!"
• "___ really no big deal!"
• "Tis" mixed up
• "___ Not Me, ___ You" (Lily Allen album)
• "___ Okay to Not Be Okay"
• "___ time for ice cream!"
• "___ not you, ___ me."
• The "I" in 30-Down
• Possessive often mistakenly given an apostrophe
• "- a boy!"
• "___ snowing outside!"
• "- showtime!"
• Belonging to that sloth
• "___ a good time to have cake"
• "___ better the second time"
• Part of 1-Across
• Belonging to that object
• "___ My Life" (Bon Jovi hit)
• "___ giving ..." ("I'm getting these vibes ...")
• "___ your lucky day!"
• Word frequently edited to insert or remove an apostrophe
• Word with a commonly misapplied apostrophe
• "___ a free country"
• "___ hard to say"
• Word often edited to add or remove an apostrophe
• "___ been a minute"
• "___ all good, my man!"