| Presents, as an honor | 21 |
| Gives, as a gift | 16 |
| Confers on | 10 |
| Confers (upon) | 14 |
| Closest bud | 11 |
| "The ___ of married life is the fights": T. Wilder | 60 |
| Coveted film honor | 18 |
| Academy Award that's the theme of this puzzle | 49 |
| Tony Awards category | 20 |
| Quotation: Part V | 17 |
| Hardly the award for Chernobyl? | 31 |
| Top dog in the CIA publishing department? | 41 |
| Polite letter ender | 19 |
| Scatter about | 13 |
| Scatter over | 12 |
| Straddle | 8 |
| Straddle, as a horse | 20 |
| Straddles | 9 |
| Towered over | 12 |
| Sat on, formally | 16 |
| "Hang in there!" | 26 |
| Readers' perusal | 20 |
| Like #1 on a New York Times list | 32 |
| Most popular Halloween mask? | 28 |
| Current must-read | 17 |
| Last part of proverb | 20 |
| Winner of a pea-preparing contest? | 34 |
| Bee winners, usually? | 21 |
| Dress-to-impress attire | 23 |
| Attire for special occasions | 28 |
| Anita Baker "Giving You the ___" | 42 |
| 1950 Ethel Merman song | 22 |
| Adorn, as with buttons | 22 |
| Start of some parental advice | 29 |
| Words to the bride | 18 |
| Felicitations | 13 |
| Common closing | 14 |
| Autographed-photo sentiment | 27 |
| Cordial statement | 17 |
| "The ___ of Our Lives": 1946 Oscar winner | 51 |
| Scottish folktronica band | 25 |
| Heart rate reducers | 19 |
| Sony recorder | 13 |
| Process by which an element's atomic number may be reduced, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 101 |
| Alkaloid used in medicine | 25 |
| Cause to go | 11 |
| To cause oneself to move | 24 |
| _____ oneself (go) | 18 |
| Caused to go, poetically | 24 |
| Find highly attractive | 22 |
| Causes to go | 12 |
| Moves (oneself) | 15 |
| Directs (oneself) | 17 |
| Causes (oneself) to go | 22 |
| ___ oneself (goes) | 18 |
| Shot the works | 14 |
| Escaped electrons | 17 |
| Stream of electrons | 19 |
| Tritium output | 14 |
| Stream of high-speed electrons | 30 |
| Stream of atomic particles | 26 |
| Radioactive emission | 20 |
| Radioactive decay stream | 24 |
| Potassium-40 product | 20 |
| Atomic discharge | 16 |
| Truck driver still in his trial period? | 39 |
| Siren-in-training? | 18 |
| Glitch reporter | 15 |
| One stage of development | 24 |
| Electron accelerator | 20 |
| Get schooled, in a way | 22 |
| Sony introduction of 1975 | 25 |
| What you might do after losing your shirt? | 42 |
| Mild stimulant from a palm tree | 31 |
| Pinang | 6 |
| Mild stimulant from a tree | 26 |
| Fruit of an Asiatic palm | 24 |
| More than a nuisance | 20 |
| Bane of oneÂ’s existence | 27 |
| ___ noires | 10 |
| They're found in un jardin zoologique | 41 |
| Some are noir | 13 |
| Jardin zoologique inhabitants | 29 |
| French brutes | 13 |
| French beasts | 13 |
| Critters, in Cannes | 19 |
| Caen critters | 13 |
| Animals, in France | 18 |
| Animals, in Arles | 17 |
| -- noires (bugbears) | 20 |
| ___ noires (anathemas) | 22 |
| End of Robbie's grace | 25 |
| Where Jesus revived Lazarus | 27 |
| West Virginia college about an hour north of WVU | 48 |
| US physicist | 12 |
| Nuclear physicist Hans who won the 1967 Nobel Prize | 51 |
| "You ___ judge" | 25 |
| "This must ___ place" | 31 |
| "Caddyshack" imperative | 33 |
| Sharpshooter's "method" mantra? | 45 |