| Writer of the 1950 Tony-winning play "The Cocktail Party" | 67 |
| Writer of the "I am stuck on Band-Aid" jingle | 55 |
| Writer next to Jung on the "Sgt. Pepper" cover | 56 |
| Writer in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 53 |
| Writer featured in the memoir "Dream Catcher" | 55 |
| Writer featured in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 62 |
| Writer behind the "It Gets Better" project | 52 |
| Writer and director of "Julie & Julia," 2009 | 58 |
| Write in any of this puzzle's eight theme answers? | 54 |
| Wrestling move that puts an arm around someone's neck | 57 |
| Wrestler with a "shell shocker" finishing move? | 57 |
| Wrestler who deliberately loses to make his opponent look good | 62 |
| Wrestler once called the "Irresistible Force" | 55 |
| Wrestler once called the "Immovable Object" | 53 |
| Wrestler nicknamed "Eighth Wonder of the World" | 57 |
| Wrestler Jerry who carried a publicized feud with Andy Kaufman | 62 |
| Wrestler Flair, 10-time N.W.A. world heavyweight champion | 57 |
| Wrestler Flair dubbed ''Nature Boy'' | 52 |
| Wrap that's included with a landlord's sign? | 52 |
| Worries, and word anagrammed in part of four puzzle answers | 59 |
| World's smallest independent state, with "the" | 60 |
| World's most widely distributed syndicated news service | 59 |
| World's longest wooden roller coaster, with "The" | 63 |
| World's longest wooden roller coaster, located in Cincinnati | 64 |
| World's longest wooden roller coaster, at Kings Island | 58 |
| World's least effective indigestion reliever? (respelled pun) | 65 |
| World's largest user of cheese, according to its website | 60 |
| World's largest particle physics lab, in Switzerland | 56 |
| World's highest capital city at almost 12,000 feet | 54 |
| World's biggest city built on continuous permafrost | 55 |
| World's best-selling recording artist of the '90s | 57 |
| World's access to the maker of a better mousetrap | 53 |
| World Series team manager of 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1988 | 54 |
| World Series of Poker game (and the theme of this puzzle) | 57 |
| World No. 1 tennis player between Martina and Monica | 52 |
| World Match Play Championship champ a record seven times | 56 |
| World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductee of '95 | 53 |
| World Cup squad that probably has no realistic shot of winning it all | 69 |
| World capital, founded in 1538, formerly known as Chuquisaca | 60 |
| World capital whose name means "victorious" | 53 |
| World capital that's a setting for three Bond films | 55 |
| World capital that lent its name to the chemical element hafnium | 64 |
| World capital situated in what was once ancient Thrace | 54 |
| World capital said to have been founded by King Midas | 53 |
| World capital known locally as Krung Thep Mahanakhon | 52 |
| World Baseball Classic teammate of "The Rocket" | 57 |
| Works on getting some football players introduced to each other? | 64 |
| Works made by artists who read the quarterly Groutline | 54 |
| Workplace 'under the spreading chestnut tree' | 53 |
| Workers' investment prog. (or backward, what models do) | 59 |
| Work written between "Typee" and "Mardi" | 60 |
| Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. | 67 |
| Work that often deals with alienation and industrialization | 59 |
| Work that begins "Hail ... blithe spirit!" | 52 |
| Work first publicly performed at the Theater an der Wien in 1805 | 64 |
| Work done by a force of one dyne over a distance of one centimeter | 66 |
| Wordsworth's "__ With Cold Beads of Midnight Dew" | 63 |
| Wordsworth's "The World ___ Much With Us" | 55 |
| Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," e.g. | 61 |
| Words you don't expect to hear when you're expecting a call | 67 |
| Words with "your life!" or "a dare!" | 56 |
| Words with "world record" or "precedent" | 60 |
| Words with "upswing" or "even keel" | 55 |
| Words with "uproar" or "instant" | 52 |
| Words with "time limit" or "trap" | 53 |
| Words with "time limit" or "record" | 55 |
| Words with "time limit" or "date" | 53 |
| Words with "the run" or "the go" | 52 |
| Words with "the minute" and "date" | 54 |
| Words with "the line" or "an era" | 53 |
| Words with "the jig" or "the game" | 54 |
| Words with "the feet of" or "the bottom of" | 63 |
| Words with "self-defense" or "good faith" | 61 |
| Words with "precedent" or "good example" | 60 |
| Words with "pickle," "stew" or "jam" | 66 |
| Words with "minimum" or "premium" | 53 |
| Words with "Lay it" or "The joke's" | 59 |
| Words with "jiffy" or "pig's eye" | 57 |
| Words with "instant" or "uproar" | 52 |
| Words with "don't tell" or "nary" | 57 |
| Words with "crossroads" or "advantage" | 58 |
| Words with "bad example" or "high standard" | 63 |
| Words with "an era" and "the line" | 54 |
| Words with "a sudden" and "the above" | 57 |
| Words with "a Rainy Night" or "Lucy" | 56 |
| Words with "a pistol" and "Hades" | 53 |
| Words with ''who do we appreciate?'' | 52 |
| Words with ''Where'' or ''Who'' | 63 |
| Words with ''use'' or ''big deal'' | 66 |
| Words with ''two'' or ''hole'' | 62 |
| Words with ''the wind beneath my wings'' | 56 |
| Words with ''stop'' or ''give'' | 63 |
| Words with ''step'' or ''bet'' | 62 |
| Words with ''sleep'' or ''step'' | 64 |
| Words with ''skip'' or ''pound'' | 64 |
| Words with ''sit'' or ''look'' | 62 |
| Words with ''sight'' or ''mind'' | 64 |
| Words with ''shoestring'' or ''roll'' | 69 |
| Words with ''shame'' or ''boy'' | 63 |
| Words with ''see you'' or ''be here'' | 69 |