| Actress Polo who played a presidential candidate's wife on "The West Wing" | 88 |
| Actress Seydoux of the 2013 Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color" | 87 |
| Actress Strong whose character narrates "Desperate Housewives" | 72 |
| Actress Thurman, after joining the "More Than a Feeling" band? | 72 |
| Actress Torpey who was on "One Life to Live" for over a decade | 72 |
| Actress Veronica who was the model in the last cigarette ad shown on U.S. TV | 76 |
| Actress who accidentally flashed her breast augmentation scar to paparazzi | 74 |
| Actress who famously said, "Acting is the perfect idiot's profession" | 83 |
| Actress who had the Tomlin role in the sitcom version of "9 to 5" | 75 |
| Actress who played Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" | 102 |
| Actress who played Natasha in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" | 80 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Actress Wright of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" and Coppola's "The Rainmaker" | 107 |
| Actress/cartoonist roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an airport employee? | 83 |
| Actress/comic roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an auto safety feature? | 81 |
| Actress/singer Helen with the CD "Crossword" (the title track starts "I found my true love today doing the crossword on the back of the 6 train") | 165 |
| Actual protest activity for tax-and-spend opponents that sets the tone for this puzzle's theme | 98 |
| Actual title of the 1979 #1 hit known as "The Piña Colada Song" | 76 |
| Ad slogan that explains why a Simpson kid is missing part of his candy bar? | 75 |
| Adam Sandler cringefest that topped many "Worst Movie of 2011" lists | 78 |
| Add vertical line 1 (word 1) and vertical line 15 (word 3) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 114 |
| Add vertical line 13 (word 3) and vertical line 3 (word 1) together and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 123 |
| Add vertical line 15 (word 1) and vertical line 1 (word 3) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 114 |
| Add vertical line 9 (word 2) and vertical line 7 (word 2) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 113 |
| Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words" | 73 |
| Adjective for the man who shirtlessly plays "Careless Whisper" on his saxophone in malls and grocery stores | 117 |
| Admonishment to someone eating off your plate at a Polynesian restaurant? | 73 |
| Adopted last name of singer Anita Colton (it's pig Latin for what she hoped to make) | 88 |
| Advice during a solar eclipse (and a homophonic hint to uncovering this puzzle's secret image) | 98 |
| Advice for the brokenhearted ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 91 |
| Advice like "Don't fly so low you crash into the Death Star"? | 75 |
| Advice to a young Schwarzenegger: "If you want to succceed, ___!" | 75 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Aerosmith studio album whose back-to-front text can be read with a looking glass | 80 |
| Aerosmith video in which Alicia Silverstone's middle finger was blurred by MTV | 82 |
| African American mathemetician who purportedly surveyed the District of Columbia | 80 |
| African city of 4+ million whose name means, literally, "haven of peace" | 82 |
| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | 82 |
| After following the instructions to make a big one, hint that tells you where to look around to find hidden booty | 113 |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods | 116 |
| Agcy. whose careers page says "Where Intelligence Goes to Work" | 73 |
| Agcy. whose FAQ page includes "Is there an age limit on claiming my child as a dependent?" | 100 |
| Age at which Gerald Ford, the longest-lived U.S. President, died in 2006 | 72 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| Agreement reached in Philadelphia on June 29, 1787 (with "The") | 73 |
| Aired on 11/21/1980, it was then the highest rated episode in TV history | 72 |
| Airline that offers the most nonstop flights between the U.S. and Israel | 72 |
| Airline that runs a "Kangaroo Route" from Australia to the U.K. | 73 |
| Aktors and akattresses who definlly say thare lines better with a couple in 'em? | 84 |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
| Alan of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Sunshine Cleaning" | 74 |
| Alan who played Cameron Frye in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 72 |
| Album whose American version opens with "I've Just Seen a Face" | 77 |
| Alcohol brand named after the businessman who rebuilt the company post-Prohibition | 82 |
| Alcohol rumored to spoil after opening, in an "Arrested Development" episode | 86 |
| Alcoholic beverage made with jalapeño? (and three words that can follow RED and WHITE, but not BLUE) | 103 |
| Alec who starred in "The Ladykillers" and "The Prisoner" | 76 |
| Alejandro ___, Tony Montana's rival drug lord in "Scarface" | 73 |
| Alex who starred in 2007's "The Water Horse" (anagram of LEET) | 76 |
| Alexander who claimed he was "in charge" after Reagan was shot | 72 |
| Alfred who broke with Freud to focus on "individual psychology" | 73 |
| Ali G asked him, "Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?" | 89 |
| Alistair Horne book subtitled "A Short History" that begins with the division of Gaul into three parts | 112 |
| All-in-one breakfast foods popularized by a song from "Adventure Time" (having it instantly get stuck in your head will be your punishment for cheating and Googling it) | 178 |
| All-time All-Star Game leader in hits (23), runs (20), and stolen bases (6) | 75 |
| All-too-frequent headline these days, and the inspiration for this puzzle | 73 |
| Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) | 83 |
| Alt.country singer Case whose "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" comes out tomorrow | 142 |
| Alternate title of a 1980 animated feature focused on Okefenokee Swamp elections | 80 |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Amateur detective in 1967's "The Clue in the Crossword Cipher" | 76 |
| Amazon tablet (Yeah, I probably should have included this as part of the theme, but I couldn't come up with a suitable answer.Sue me.) | 138 |
| Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the" | 78 |
| American Film Institute's "greatest male star of all time" | 72 |
| American lake every constructor is sick of cluing, and "American lake" was probably enough to give it to you, so screw it | 131 |
| American swimmer whose relay team set a world record in the women's 4×100 freestyle at the 1924 Olympics | 112 |
| Amin who was called, quite fairly, "a murderer, a liar, and a savage" | 79 |
| Amt. set by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council | 73 |
| Amy who was on "ER" and three episodes of "Judging Amy" | 75 |
| An annual convention in August, 2006, will celebrate its 40th anniversary | 73 |
| An arachnid that sucks the juices of its prey was named after this author | 73 |
| An automatic one injured Vince Coleman in 1985, forcing him to sit out the World Series | 87 |
| An orb-weaving spider with black markings resembling a mustache was named after this musician | 93 |
| Anagrammatic girls' name given to eight babies in 1999, and 4,457 in 2005 | 77 |
| Ancient court official who got his job because he could be trusted around women | 79 |
| Ancient deity mentioned 39 times in Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" | 73 |
| Ancient playwright who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 97 |
| Ancient stone once thought to be man-made but now believed to have been produced by glaciation | 94 |
| And after being convicted, he feels like Sid the Skydiver again, right down to his colorful new ___ | 99 |
| And you even managed to do 24 ___ in the strip mall parking lot, when the sign clearly said Five Guys Burgers and Fries... | 122 |
| Angle irons graphically represented by four sets of black squares in this grid, and by letter formations starting in the four longest answers | 141 |
| Animal in the children's book "Guess How Much I Love You?" | 72 |
| Animal taking a walk in Henry Mancini's jazzy "Hatari!" tune | 74 |
| Animated character Cartman who describes himself as "big-boned" | 73 |
| Animated film featuring the voices of Gene Hackman and Sylvester Stallone | 73 |
| Animated movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 86 |
| Animated parrot of film whose voice is the same as that of the Aflac duck | 73 |
| Animated skunk Le Pew [get the 2013 rate at avxwords.com while it lasts - sign up now] | 86 |
| Animator who created "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" | 87 |