| O'Donnell who hosted a widely panned 2008 Thanksgiving variety special | 74 |
| O'Shea who appeared on "Ed Sullivan" the same night as the Beatles | 80 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| Observation as to why a Kansas-based company has to relocate to San Francisco instead of Boston? | 96 |
| Ocean "crossing" this puzzle's four longest answers (abbr.) | 73 |
| Ocean predator, of which there are five types starting this puzzle's longest answers | 88 |
| Odd-looking but versatile garments the Once-ler manufactures in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" | 101 |
| Oddly, newspaper that is a minority stakeholder in the Boston Red Sox: Abbr. | 76 |
| Of whom Hamlet said "He hath borne me on his back a thousand times" | 77 |
| Off one's rocker, and a hint to what the four longest puzzle answers have in common | 87 |
| Off-the-cuff riffs about old-timey clothes-cleaning devices? (Happy New Year to Emperor Justinian I!) | 101 |
| Office building problem that's a hint to this puzzle's theme entries (see their last three letters) | 107 |
| Office purchase, and in a way, what can be seen in this puzzle's sequence of circles | 88 |
| Officer who arrested Arlo for illegally dumping garbage in "Alice's Restaurant" | 93 |
| Oft-riffed-on ad slogan since 1993 (California [dairy product] Processor Board) | 79 |
| Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle | 75 |
| Ohio city where a Burger King worker YouTubed himself bathing in the sink in 2008 | 81 |
| Ohio minor league team whose alumni include C. C. Sabathia and Manny RamÃrez | 79 |
| Ohio town where "there's a happiness" in an old Glenn Miller song | 79 |
| Ohio's ___ Point, home of the Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force roller coasters | 90 |
| Oil-based paste mentioned in the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" | 84 |
| Oingo Boingo leader also known for composing the theme to "The Simpsons" | 82 |
| Oklahoma Indian (and a three-word description of this puzzle's theme) | 73 |
| Old "S.N.L." character currently in MasterCard's "Priceless" ads | 88 |
| Old bandleader with the catch phrase "That's right–you're wrong!" | 87 |
| Old brand that promised "white white washes without red hands" | 72 |
| Old detergent company that often enclosed a free drinking glass in each box | 75 |
| Old draft agcy. [AVXwords.com has the freshest weekly crosswords - sign up today] | 81 |
| Old English coin that will suffice, according to "Christmas Is Coming" | 80 |
| Old film actress who starred in 1950's TV's "The Pride of the Family" | 87 |
| Old political journalist with the newspaper column "Matter of Fact" | 77 |
| Old riddle: "What did Delaware?" Answer: "I don't know, but ___" | 88 |
| Old song with the lyric "When he would ride in the afternoon / I'd follow him with my hickory broom" | 114 |
| Old TV show that featured "bachelorettes," with "The" | 73 |
| Old ___ (Connecticut town where a tick-borne disease was first reported) | 72 |
| Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15] | 90 |
| Olympic figure skater Johnny who skated to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" | 81 |
| Olympic gold medalist who was a "Dancing With the Stars" champion | 75 |
| On 8/21/1911 the subject (the letters dropped from the starred answers) was ___ | 79 |
| On a scale of 1 to 10, what one amp in "This Is Spinal Tap" goes to | 77 |
| On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code | 97 |
| On second thought, make it a costume drama: "Stop Making Sense..." | 76 |
| On second thought, make it a gangster film: "Charlie's Angels..." | 79 |
| On second thought, make it a goofball comedy: "The Good Earth..." | 75 |
| On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..." | 86 |
| On second thought, make it a horror film: "Big Momma's House..." | 78 |
| On second thought, make it a romantic comedy: "Soylent Green..." | 74 |
| On second thought, make it an edgy comedy: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being..." | 91 |
| On second thought, make it an inspirational film: "The Evil Dead..." | 78 |
| On the back at work, it's good; on the backside at work, it's bad | 73 |
| On-again off-again fast food sandwich that has been on two "retirement tours" | 87 |
| One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be": Bierce | 92 |
| One Direction member who named the band (like you know any of the other members) | 80 |
| One famously begins "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" | 83 |
| One feeling sad, perhaps because rejecting all truth isn't going so well? | 77 |
| One may be knocked over continually by those goddamn teenagers in their goddamned pickup | 88 |
| One might break off of your plastic fork, and right into the egg salad (goddammit) | 82 |
| One of "Time"'s 20th-century "greatest heroes & icons" | 82 |
| One of Carlin's seven dirty words that's since become commonplace | 73 |
| One of Carrie Bradshaw's main love interests in "Sex and the City" | 80 |
| One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" | 91 |
| One of Joe Theismann's bones infamously broken by Lawrence Taylor on "Monday Night Football" | 106 |
| One of only three golfers who briefly kept Tiger Woods out of the World #1 spot between 1/11/1998 and 10/30/2010 | 112 |
| One of only two women on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 100 |
| One of seven kings of Castile, five kings of Aragón, or two kings of Spain | 77 |
| One of Shakespeare's begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 87 |
| One of Skitch's successors as bandleader on "The Tonight Show" | 76 |
| One of the "Ten Worst Automobiles of 2007" as ranked by thetruthaboutcars.com | 87 |
| One of the "three little people" whose problems "don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," in a classic film | 144 |
| One of The Forbidden Planet's "Best of the Year" movies of 2006 | 77 |
| One of the girls in the Madonna children's book "The English Roses" | 81 |
| One of the only 12 letter words that typists can produce with just the left hand on a standard keyboard | 103 |
| One of the people responsible for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" | 75 |
| One of the subjects of the best-selling '02 book "The Conquerors" | 79 |
| One of the things "I've been" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
| One of the three subjects of the sports book "American Triumvirate" | 77 |
| One of the worst big-name TV casting choices of 2008 (for "Kath & Kim"), according to the website Television Without Pity | 135 |
| One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring | 84 |
| One of three Oscar hosts who were also nominated for an award the same year | 75 |
| One of Time's 1993 Men of the Year called "The Peacemakers" | 73 |
| One of Time's 2005 Persons of the Year called "The Good Samaritans" | 81 |
| One of two brand names mentioned in Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" | 75 |
| One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" | 87 |
| One of two reserve components (the other being its "Army" counterpart) of the United States Armed Forces | 114 |
| One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College | 83 |
| One place to follow the object named in the circled letters (reading left to right) | 83 |
| One protected by une dame, deux tours, deux fous, deux cavaliers et huit pions | 78 |
| One set of gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" ... as suggested by the circled squares? | 97 |
| One side in a Supreme Court case brought on by a Carlin monologue broadcast | 75 |
| One unsatisfied with a "She loves me, she loves me not" result? | 73 |
| One who "never was afraid of goons and ginks," in a Woody Guthrie title | 81 |
| One who believes there are two eternal principles, one good and one evil | 72 |
| One who can be patched together from the letters added to the theme answers | 75 |
| One who follows tornados (or a hint to the opener in four horizontal answers) | 77 |
| One who maintains that scientists from another planet created all life on Earth | 79 |
| One who might radio you not to break double nickel after seeing a Smokey | 72 |
| One who sets a VHS of "The Crying Game" precisely to the money shot? | 78 |
| One who's called "the Merciful" and "the Compassionate" | 79 |
| One who's easier to pray for than to visit, according to C. S. Lewis | 72 |
| One who's happy just to be at sea, despite being constantly seasick? | 72 |