- LONG
- Over three hours
- Like "Don Quixote"
- Desire
- Shelley of "Cheers"
- Shelley of _Cheers_
- Like Sosa's drives
- What a vowel can be
- Hanker
- Hard to sit through
- Like some vowels
- Time-consuming
- Lasting quite a while
- Like a Hail Mary
- Pine (for)
- Extended
- Seemingly endless
- Beyond the baseline, say
- Running over
- Stretched out
- Drawn-out
- Running into overtime
- ___ time no see
- Like some division
- Word before shot or division
- Have a yen
- Huey of Louisiana politics
- Word before Island or division
- The ___ Good Friday (1980 gangster classic)
- Reaching into the past, as a memory
- Quote, part 3
- Louisiana politician Huey
- Men's jacket size
- Over the time limit
- Like a bomb, to Peyton Manning
- Distance or division preceder
- Like the "o" in "slow"
- Dragged out
- Like Pinocchio's nose, at times
- Like Rip Van Winkle's beard
- Extensive
- Kind of division
- Like boring speeches
- Wordy
- Like some odds
- Like some trips
- Like some shots
- Jacket specification
- Unlike any vowels in dictionaries?
- With 42- and 66-Across, words to an old friend, whose end is a hint this puzzle's grid and theme
- __ Island
- Like a boring lecture, probably
- Like epics
- Like most Michener novels
- Like the "o" in "no"
- With 37- and 38-Across, big hit
- Boring, maybe
- Dull, maybe
- Like 1,225-page "War and Peace"
- Like epic novels
- Standing lead-in
- Word with Beach or Island
- Like marathons
- Like the mind's "i"
- To make a __ story short ...
- Sleep-inducing, maybe, as a lecture
- All the King's Men inspiration
- Before __ (soon)
- Beyond the baseline, in tennis
- Suit specification
- Pants specification
- Like some vowel sounds
- Taking quite a while
- Have a hankering
- Coat specification
- Lasting a while
- Marathon
- Overly extended
- __ time, no see
- Apt to be cut
- Quite protracted
- Overextended
- Reaching far in the past
- __ ago (olden days)
- Foot-__ hot dog
- Like a typical pilgrimage
- Highly extended
- Name for an island.
- For quite a while
- Like some tennis serves
- Suit size designation
- Kingfish.
- ___ Island.
- ___ John Silver.
- New Governor of Louisiana.
- Governor of Louisiana.
- Governor of Hawaii.
- Governor or Senator of the Pelican State.
- Senator from Baton Rouge.
- Senator from Louisiana.
- Ellender's colleague.
- Russell B. of Louisiana.
- Louisiana Senator.
- Tedious.
- Far-reaching.
- Louisiana Governor.
- Senator from the Pelican State.
- Attenuated
- Before ___ (soon).
- Big.
- Tall.
- Wish earnestly.
- Southern Senator.
- Big, as a chance.
- Word with range or distance.
- Extending far into the future.
- For the duration of.
- Position in the stock market.
- Remotely.
- Louisiana name
- Huey or Russell
- Like the way to Tipperary
- Late Kingfish
- Huey
- Suit size
- Island or Beach
- La. name
- Share the wealth advocate: 1893–1935
- Louisiana legislator
- Type of shot
- Word with bow or hand
- Desire, with "for"
- Kind of run or ton
- Adjective for a triple
- At ___ last
- Kind of suit for Goren
- Ache
- Kind of boat or bow
- ___ Tall Sally, 1956 song
- Pelican State legislator
- Shelley of "Cheers" fame
- The Kingfish
- Shelley ___ of 1 Across reruns
- Word with jump or shot
- Kingfish Huey
- Kingfish of La.
- Kind of shot
- Like Chandler's "Goodbye"
- Over the limit
- Tennis referee's cry
- Overshot
- Like a hippie's hair
- Like "War and Peace"
- Trousers spec
- Beyond the end line
- Like "Lawrence of Arabia"
- Like a Hail Mary pass
- Suit spec
- How some quarterbacks go
- Pants spec
- Past the golf pin, say
- Like books in two volumes
- Like some vowels and pants
- Like the "i" in "like"
- Tennis court determination
- Key word #3
- New York's ___ Island
- Like "War and Peace," famously
- Past the baseline, in tennis
- Thirst
- Word before ball or shot
- Like marathons and maxiskirts
- Word with shot or suit
- What "L" stands for in pant sizes
- Word before or after run
- Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers
- Out of bounds, in a way
- The "L" of LP
- not so ___ ago,
- Like T.S.A. lines on holiday weekends
- Kid Rock "All Summer ___"
- Paul Carrack "How ___"
- How ___ has this been going on?
- Glam rocker's hair length
- Interminable
- Second word of the "Star Wars" crawl
- He was assassinated in Baton Rouge, 1935
- ___ shot (dark horse)
- U.S. senator assassinated in 1935
- Bureau chief Kenneth Prewitt is defending the ___ form
- Swimmer Jessica with sixteen Paralympic gold medals
- Kind of wait
- Shelley or Huey
- Hanker after
- Least popular kind of speech
- Shelley of film
- Like the law's arm?
- Word with division
- Coat length
- Crave
- With 63-Across, event of 20-Across
- In need of editing, in a way
- Word with "Island" or "division"
- Word on some jacket labels
- Tediously protracted
- Blaze politico
- How hippies wore their hair
- Great in length
- Word with "shot" or "division"
- Like some lectures
- Man's jacket size
- Like epic films
- Man's suit size
- Type of division
- Beyond the expected run-time
- Like a marathon
- Having many pages
- Like a 15-letter word
- *One-in-a-million chance
- Not short
- Like many Oscar speeches
- Like some sleeves
- Like a three-hour movie
- Tall person's pants spec
- How a boring story might feel
- Like Rapunzel's hair
- Like a four-hour movie
- Like some grapes
- Actress Shelley
- Chambers of Cheers
- Huey for one
- Southern politician
- Lengthy
- Louisiana politician
- Verbose: ___-winded
- Like a shaggy-dog story
- Kind of division or vowel
- Louisiana legend Huey
- Like the "o" in go
- Jacket category
- Like par-5 holes
- Like epic movies
- Past the golf pin
- Soul Food star Nia
- Like many epic movies
- Like a 3.5-hour movie
- Took you ___ enough!
- ___ ago ...
- Password user of a folk tale
- Kind of bond or position
- Winter lies too ___ in country towns: Willa Cather
- Like some odds and vowels
- In need of editing, perhaps
- Like the description "drawn out excessively to the point of ridiculousness"
- Like vowels marked by a macron
- Hanker for
- Louisiana's "Kingfish"
- North Atlantic island
- Protracted
- 1956 Little Richard hit "____ Tall Sally"
- Aspire
- Have a desire
- Pine
- Fourth and ____ (football situation that usually results in a punt)
- Yearn
- Difficult to sit through without a bathroom break, perhaps
- Needing editing, perhaps
- Yearn (for)
- Like verbose writing
