| Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 84 |
| Sci-fi character whose first name, Nyota, was first revealed in film in 2009 | 76 |
| Sci-fi character whose last words are "There is ... another ... Sky ... Sky ... walker." | 98 |
| Sci-fi geek who loves a "Deep Space Nine" alien and a Robin Williams sitcom? | 86 |
| Sci-fi stealth shields (that these two scientists at Harvard actually did figure out how to make) | 97 |
| Sci-fi swords (that my older brother actually got to use one time at this place but he had to sign a contract saying he wouldn't tell anyone where they're located) | 171 |
| Sci-fi translation device (that my uncle actually caught one of in his pond and one time he let me use it) | 106 |
| Sci-fi urban transport vehicles (that will be for sale in California probably next year) | 88 |
| Sci-fi villain who says "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 82 |
| Sci-fi villain with the line "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 87 |
| Science fiction classic to which the Harry Potter series bears more than a passing resemblance | 94 |
| Scoreboard abbr. for the football team that plays its home games at University of Phoenix Stadium | 97 |
| Scott of "Parks and Recreation" [The AV Club goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxword.com] | 107 |
| Scottish historian Thomas who called economics "the dismal science" | 77 |
| Scottish sailor Alexander who was supposedly the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe | 80 |
| Screenwriter/actor roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an old announcer? | 80 |
| Screenwriting Oscar winner for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" | 95 |
| Seasoning option for fries at the Japanese fast food restaurant First Kitchen | 77 |
| Seattle suburb known as "the bicycle capital of the Northwest" | 72 |
| Sec. of State who said "I am in control here" after Reagan was shot | 77 |
| Secluded room that makes you flash and become temporarily invincible, a la Super Mario Bros.? | 93 |
| Second of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 80 |
| Second-greatest player of all time, in a 1997 "Hockey News" vote | 74 |
| Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 98 |
| Secret get-together, or what occurs literally in each of this puzzle's circled squares | 90 |
| Secret military mission ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle? | 76 |
| Section of "Carmina Burana" used in "battle to the death" movie trailers | 92 |
| Sedgwick, subject of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" | 74 |
| See the sound waves from the radiator vibrating in this totally pink and orange way, ya know? | 93 |
| Seed containing moth larva, and what is aptly hidden in each puzzle row whose clues contain asterisks | 101 |
| Seesaw (and the longest common word that uses just the top typewriter row) | 74 |
| Self-described "poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man" of literature | 81 |
| Self-described "short, stocky, slow-witted bald man" of "Seinfeld" | 86 |
| Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
| Senate candidate whose "proof" that she is 1/32nd Cherokee is her high cheekbones | 91 |
| Senate committee that censures its members for screwing interns and such | 72 |
| Senator portrayer in "The West Wing" and "The Aviator" | 74 |
| Senior group's second-in-command permits a party with self-provided alcohol? | 80 |
| Sensible car, perhaps [avxwords.com has premium indie xwords - subscribe today] | 79 |
| September 8, 1974 pard recipient - and what the constructor did throughout this puzzle | 86 |
| Sequel that made The Onion A.V. Club's "Worst Movies of 2007" list, with a rare "F" grade | 113 |
| Sequel to a 2013 3D film in which Manny Pacquiao spars in space? (Happy New Year to adolescent Jesus!) | 102 |
| Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
| Sergeant Foley's first name in "An Officer and a Gentleman" | 73 |
| Serious software glitch that's certain to cause a crash or even the "blue screen of death" | 104 |
| Servant clan in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" sci-fi novels | 73 |
| Servant's complaint about serving a British queen one course of a meal? | 75 |
| Service run by the band They Might Be Giants that was nothing more than their answering machine | 95 |
| Serving in John Betjeman's poem "How to Get on in Society" | 72 |
| Serving it to children, not putting enough of it into a Black Russian, and so on | 80 |
| Set of which all seven elements are fittingly hidden in the solved puzzle grid | 78 |
| Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 78 |
| Setting for Seurat's "Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" | 99 |
| Setting for the iconic movie line "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 99 |
| Setting in Sherlock Holmes's "The Man with the Twisted Lip" | 73 |
| Setting of a 1978 hit song that's "the hottest spot north of Havana" | 82 |
| Setting of much of the first Sherlock Holmes tale, "A Study in Scarlet" | 81 |
| Setting of Shakespeare's "Two households, both alike in dignity" | 78 |
| Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
| Seurat's "Un dimanche ___-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" | 82 |
| Seuss character who "spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy" | 78 |
| Seven-time Best Actor runner-up who finally received an honorary Oscar in 2003 | 78 |
| Sextet of cancellations that produced the starred entries...or an oversexed MTV production now facing cancellation | 114 |
| Shade from the sun that's inserted in this puzzle's theme answers | 73 |
| Shak. play with the famous line, "What a piece of pork is a man"? | 75 |
| Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters | 77 |
| Shakespeare character who asks "To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?" | 89 |
| Shakespeare character who said "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 78 |
| Shakespeare character who said "more sinned against than sinning" | 75 |
| Shakespeare character who says "I have set my life upon a cast" | 73 |
| Shakespeare character who says "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth" | 101 |
| Shakespeare character who was the first to use the word "inauspicious" | 80 |
| Shakespeare on overthrowing first ("Julius Caesar," V, iii, 6) | 72 |
| Shakespeare on someone just about to score ("Romeo and Juliet," I, v, 8) | 82 |
| Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" | 76 |
| Shakespeare sonnet that begins "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" | 81 |
| Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" | 116 |
| Shakespeare villain who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 76 |
| Shakespearean "I can't believe we just stayed up all night!"? | 75 |
| Shakespearean character who called jealousy a "green-ey'd monster" | 80 |
| Shakespearean character who calls himself "a very foolish fond old man" | 81 |
| Shakespearean character who introduced the phrase "salad days" | 72 |
| Shakespearean character who said "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war" | 94 |
| Shania Twain "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm ___ Here!" | 77 |
| Shape formed by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order, plus one more connection back to A | 104 |
| She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" | 76 |
| She allowed "Across the Universe" to be performed at the Grammys | 74 |
| She and Clark Gable were known as "the team that generates steam" | 75 |
| She beat out Judi, Charlize, Keira, and Felicity for Best Actress of 2005 | 73 |
| She beat out Renée, Sissy, Judi, and Nicole for the 2001 Best Actress Oscar | 78 |
| She finished third behind Ohno and Fatone on "Dancing With the Stars" | 79 |
| She followed and preceded Billy as host of the Academy Awards ceremony twice | 76 |
| She had brief roles as Phyllis on "Rhoda" and Rhoda on "Dr. Kildare" | 88 |
| She joined forces with Prince during the "Purple Rain" recording sessions | 83 |
| She originated the role of Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 84 |
| She played Anna in "Anna Christie" and "Anna Karenina" | 74 |
| She played Anna in "Anna Karenina" and "Anna Christie" | 74 |
| She played Appassionata von Climax in Broadway's "Li'l Abner" | 79 |
| She played Blanche opposite Marlon's Stanley in "Streetcar" on Broadway | 85 |