| Actor who announced in December that he was leaving "Grey's Anatomy" | 82 |
| A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming | 82 |
| Answer to "who's responsible for eating all the cheese I left out?"? | 82 |
| After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | 82 |
| Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Antonius Block's chess opponent in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" | 81 |
| About to get a Ph.D., definitely, if not this year then sometime in the next five | 81 |
| “More research on sneezing and sniffling is ridiculous,” Tom declared ___ | 81 |
| “I’m determined to finish my behavioral experiments,” Pavlov said ___ | 81 |
| Actress/comic roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an auto safety feature? | 81 |
| “Character is like a ___ and reputation like its shadow”: Abraham Lincoln | 81 |
| Author of the 2009 book subtitled "A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" | 80 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| Arthur who was the first Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 80 |
| Actor who turned down the role of Dr. Shepherd on "Grey's Anatomy" | 80 |
| “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family ...” | 80 |
| African American mathemetician who purportedly surveyed the District of Columbia | 80 |
| Aerosmith studio album whose back-to-front text can be read with a looking glass | 80 |
| Alternate title of a 1980 animated feature focused on Okefenokee Swamp elections | 80 |
| Author of "Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series" | 80 |
| Actress who played Natasha in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" | 80 |
| Actress Kate recently voted "most desirable body" in a Daily Mail poll | 80 |
| Actor Mahershalalhashbaz ___ of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" | 79 |
| Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers | 79 |
| Anterograde ___ (affliction suffered by the protagonist of "Memento") | 79 |
| Anthony's "Remains of the Day" and "Howards End" costar | 79 |
| Author Michael who hated the movie version of "The Neverending Story" | 79 |
| Actor Dane who plays "Dr. McSteamy" on "Grey's Anatomy" | 79 |
| Activist who said "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea" | 79 |
| Actor who had to wait 41 years from his first Oscar nomination to his first win | 79 |
| Amin who was called, quite fairly, "a murderer, a liar, and a savage" | 79 |
| Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" | 79 |
| Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys" | 79 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| Actress Beverly who played Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" | 79 |
| “I may have discovered the key to the unconscious mind,” Freud said ___ | 79 |
| Ancient court official who got his job because he could be trusted around women | 79 |
| “And thankfully, the graph’s final dimension is not within the ___” | 79 |
| “The neonatology department needs funding most of all,” Tom blurted ___ | 79 |
| Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) | 79 |
| Assistant director for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" | 78 |
| Arthur who played Larry David's mother on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 78 |
| Actor who played a coin-flipping killer in the 1932 movie "Scarface" | 78 |
| Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the" | 78 |
| Actor with three quotes on AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list | 78 |
| Active Ecuadorean volcano whose name means "Smooth neck of the moon" | 78 |
| “Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
| Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
| Adam Sandler cringefest that topped many "Worst Movie of 2011" lists | 78 |
| Aptly named red tabby who played Cat in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" | 78 |
| Answer to the question, "Which part of your sinuses hurts the most"? | 78 |
| Awards won by "Les Misérables" and "The Book of Mormon" | 78 |
| Author of the story that inspired "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" | 77 |
| Awaken, and words that can precede first words of answers to asterisked clues | 77 |
| Actress de Matteo who moved from "The Sopranos" to "Joey" | 77 |
| Antepenultimate word in the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live" | 77 |
| Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature" | 77 |
| Art Spiegelman's book with the subtitle "A Survivor's Tale" | 77 |
| Answers to "do you solve mots croisés?" from anyone reading this | 77 |
| Actress Allen who won a Tony for "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" | 77 |
| Album whose American version opens with "I've Just Seen a Face" | 77 |
| Author who said "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die" | 77 |
| Army post merged with McGuire AFB and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst | 77 |
| Actor originally slated to play Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" | 77 |
| ATV that requires you say a "Hail Mary" before starting the engine? | 77 |
| Anagrammatic girls' name given to eight babies in 1999, and 4,457 in 2005 | 77 |
| Asset in answering the question "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 77 |
| Answer to ''Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?'' | 77 |
| “A great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”: Berlioz | 77 |
| “The leaders of the hostiles are said to comprise a particularly ___” | 77 |
| Audi rival, and, when spoken as a command, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Australian cager Andrew who was selected first overall in the 2005 NBA draft | 76 |
| Anton ___ (character voiced by Peter O'Toole in "Ratatouille") | 76 |
| Actress Lanchester who played Jessica Marbles in "Murder by Death" | 76 |
| Actual title of the 1979 #1 hit known as "The Piña Colada Song" | 76 |
| A different one is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 76 |
| As it was formerly known, channel with the slogan "play every day" | 76 |
| “The cruelest ___ are often told in silence”: Robert Louis Stevenson | 76 |
| Amateur detective in 1967's "The Clue in the Crossword Cipher" | 76 |
| A famous one begins "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" | 76 |
| A "career associate scanning professional" used to be called a ___ | 76 |
| Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | 76 |
| Abbr. signaling that the subject line contains the full content of an e-mail | 76 |
| Alex who starred in 2007's "The Water Horse" (anagram of LEET) | 76 |
| Alec who starred in "The Ladykillers" and "The Prisoner" | 76 |
| Actress Veronica who was the model in the last cigarette ad shown on U.S. TV | 76 |
| Actor currently playing Tevye on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 76 |
| Achieves a rare baseball feat, delineated by part of each long puzzle answer | 76 |
| Asian capital that was from 2004-07 home of the world's tallest building | 76 |
| Arlen/Mercer song "Blues in the Night ("My Mama Done ___ Me") | 76 |
| Â Â Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) | 76 |
| “Harvard Beats ___, 29-29” (1968 “Harvard Crimson” headline) | 76 |
| Autobiography subtitled "A Baseball Life" by a Yankees bench coach | 76 |
| Amy who was on "ER" and three episodes of "Judging Amy" | 75 |
| About 2.6 times the square of the length of one side, for a regular hexagon | 75 |
| “All-out war was launched on the graph today when the ___ attacked” | 75 |
| Artist's pseudonym formed from the French pronunciation of his initials | 75 |
| Actress McDaniel who was the first African-American to win an Academy Award | 75 |
| Apt place to listen to Brian Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets"? | 75 |