| Piano pieces nicknamed 'Winter Wind' and 'Butterfly,' e.g. | 74 |
| Blue-tongued dog in the canine version of the "Twilight" series? | 74 |
| Voicings of simultaneously-sounded groups of musical notes in which the root note is not in the bass part | 105 |
| 2003 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for "Adaptation" | 78 |
| The only recipient of Sports Illustrated's "Sportswoman of the Year" (from 1976) | 94 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |
| People who recite "Jabberwocky" door-to-door during the holidays? | 75 |
| "Weird Al" Yankovic single about a nuclear holocaust during the holidays, which contains the line "...underneath the missile-toe" | 149 |
| Car that George buys, thinking it was once owned by Jon Voight, on "Seinfeld" | 87 |
| '70s TV host who purportedly led a double life as a decorated CIA assassin | 78 |
| Actor who supposedly "destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise" | 113 |
| 1999 film in which author John Irving plays a stationmaster, with "The" | 81 |
| “Should that say ‘American,’ or will we really be studying the past by watching widescreen ’60s films in ___?” | 130 |
| "Jacques, I rate your face a perfect score, but your butt is très mediocre!" | 89 |
| Song with the lyric "And the painted ponies go up and down," with "The" | 91 |
| Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" | 131 |
| Film in which Agnes Moorehead debuted as the title character's mother | 73 |
| Nightly battle between a spouse who wants to read and one who doesn't? | 74 |
| Only female to have received jazz, pop, and classical music Grammy nominations | 78 |
| Jazz legend who recorded "Porgy & Bess" as a duet album with Ray Charles | 86 |
| 1973 blaxploitation film about a female secret agent busting drug traffickers | 77 |
| "The black," in Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" | 74 |
| "Fasten tightly," "read rights while affixing" and the like? | 80 |
| What's heard in the computer lab when the regular teachers are sick? | 72 |
| Event when one might ask "is it just me, or is it getting hotter?" | 76 |
| Country singer with the #1 album and single "Killin' Time" [New Hampshire] | 88 |
| Chelsea ___ News (Manhattan paper that covers the West Side from 14th to 59th Street) | 85 |
| "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?" character in MS Word | 96 |
| Sci-fi stealth shields (that these two scientists at Harvard actually did figure out how to make) | 97 |
| She had brief roles as Phyllis on "Rhoda" and Rhoda on "Dr. Kildare" | 88 |
| 2012 film in which Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant each play six roles | 76 |
| "The Incredible Hulk" actor, through music, takes on a fluffier role? | 79 |
| Group cannibals don't eat "because they taste funny," according to the joke | 89 |
| Philip Carey's handicap in Maugham's "Of Human Bondage" | 73 |
| Annual three-day music festival named after the California Valley it takes place in | 83 |
| Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, familiarly—he holds the NCAA Division I men's basketball record for most wins | 113 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" director; "it" game; performer Marilyn; PC key; ear part; mama's boy; grown boy; "Notes On 'Camp'" essayist; blue shade | 188 |
| Ingredient 1/8 cup of which is used in a bath at Pennsylvania's Hotel Hershey Spa | 85 |
| Name on the label of the world's most popular soft drink, until the year 1009 | 81 |
| Where to meet for drinks with Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Chandler | 78 |
| Classic Mike Myers "S.N.L." sketch ... or an apt title for this puzzle | 80 |
| Comic who coined the words "eneagled," "mantasy," and "freem" | 91 |
| Comedian who was the only man on Maxim's 2012 Hot 100 list of most beautiful women | 86 |
| “More research on sneezing and sniffling is ridiculous,” Tom declared ___ | 81 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| NFL quarterback whose signature move is kissing his flexed bicep after scoring a touchdown | 90 |
| Arrest a mako in an African river? (and three words that can follow WHITE and BLUE, but not RED) | 96 |
| "SNL" commercial with Phil Hartman on a giant pyramid of cereal | 73 |
| Lower-tract product whose instructions say "Fasten your seat belts"? | 78 |
| Kid's art activity ... or something seen four times in this puzzle's solution? | 86 |
| Lurid 1979 film about John Dillinger's girlfriend, with "The" | 75 |
| Best Original Song Oscar winner from ... Disney's "Pocahontas" | 76 |
| Waitress: "In other words, the One-Two ___. Comin' right up." | 75 |
| Genre for "The Breakfast Club" or "A Catcher in the Rye" | 76 |
| Just making things up, or a synonym for a three-word phrase describing this puzzle's theme entries | 102 |
| Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use | 82 |
| Web concerns ... and based on six familiar names hidden in rows 1, 4, 12 and 15 of this puzzle grid, what the black squares in those rows symbolize | 147 |
| Country where it's customary to have diamond-encrusted prophylactics? | 73 |
| Puzzlement ... or a hint to getting the 10 words on the perimeter of this puzzle | 80 |
| "It's easy, pal-just keep track of the shell with the pea" and others? | 84 |
| “Should that say ‘Forensic,’ or will we really be practicing criminology on trees in ___?” | 106 |
| Frequent contestant on the "Saturday Night Live" spoof of "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | 99 |
| Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue | 89 |
| Type of worker theorized to have built the Death Star, according to a "Clerks" bit | 92 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings (like this puzzle's eight theme entries) | 93 |
| New Hampshire town whose Daily Sun was the first newspaper to publish sudoku in English | 87 |
| "Too serious!" said the pigeons. "Why don't we go with '__'?" | 93 |
| Slogan for a down-and-out Indiana city trying to attract creative types? | 72 |
| Entertainment options so named because the audience is more detached, per McLuhan (not because he thought they were awesome) | 124 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers | 131 |
| Speech given by the policeman chasing James Cagney in "White Heat"? | 77 |
| Device that automatically cooks a certain French dish "au vin"? | 73 |
| The "Her" of "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low" | 74 |
| Shakespeare character who says "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth" | 101 |
| ___ St. Clair (Christopher Guest's "Waiting For Guffman" role) | 76 |
| Quality something has if you can put your arms around it (and a group hug involving tributes #4, #10, and #12) | 110 |
| Gold digger seduces a different kind of gold digger, gets charged with ... | 74 |
| Active Ecuadorean volcano whose name means "Smooth neck of the moon" | 78 |
| Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | 76 |
| “Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
| ''Don't __!'' (''That's what you think!'') | 82 |
| Tuesday: Iggy serves up medley of national anthems when asked to play ... | 73 |
| But neither would talk. So I said, "I'm going to ___" ... | 72 |
| Jerome who played Miles Archer, Sam's ill-fated partner, in "The Maltese Falcon" | 94 |
| Model train company that REFUSES to face accusations that their faulty tracks endanger millions of imaginary tiny conductors? | 125 |
| We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago | 95 |
| Program about a sarcastic naval officer who offers sound financial advice? | 74 |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up | 75 |
| "When a man is nervous about shipping breakables, I tell him, '___ carefully, sir' ..." | 105 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Charley Horse"? | 74 |
| Board game with the categories "Data Head" and "Word Worm" | 78 |
| Soulja Boy song on many "Worst of 2007" lists, despite hitting #1 | 76 |
| "Axel F" ringtone character on About.com's "Top 10 Most Annoying Pop Songs of 2005" | 107 |
| Crime in which a vehicle's serial numbers, licence plates, etc. are copied and used on a new vehicle | 104 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| Bygone publication subtitled "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" | 90 |
| "Law & Order: ___" (TV show about what could be next if prisons get any more crowded?) | 100 |
| Small clay wind instrument, notably seen in several popular "Legend of Zelda" games | 93 |
| 1986 comedy with the tagline "The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple!" | 78 |
| What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore? | 86 |