| Sports comedy film of '96 | 29 |
| 1996 Adam Sandler film | 22 |
| Line from "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 60 |
| Line from ''Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' | 68 |
| Season's greetings | 22 |
| Words by A. McCreery | 20 |
| Our appropriate year-end wish | 29 |
| Opper creation | 14 |
| Time for some to raise their glasses | 36 |
| Cocktail times | 14 |
| Bar discount times | 18 |
| "Rock Center" contributor Ted in good spirits? | 56 |
| "Bon voyage" kin | 26 |
| Successful spree for a shopaholic? | 34 |
| What I wished for, but couldn't write correctly due to heavy turbulence | 75 |
| McDonald's purchase | 23 |
| Comfortable compromise | 22 |
| What an arbitrator hopes to find | 32 |
| Compromiser's goal | 22 |
| Factories with good morale? | 27 |
| Poison source in Christie's "A Pocket Full of Rye" | 64 |
| End of message | 14 |
| Greek greeting on January 1st? | 30 |
| They keep many folks up | 23 |
| Where to enjoy oneself? | 23 |
| Military misfit | 15 |
| MESSAGE FOR HIM: OCT. 23, 1993 | 30 |
| Sendoff for a Christmas shopper? | 32 |
| "South Pacific" song that asks "If you don't have a dream, / How you gonna have a dream come true?" | 123 |
| One who's content when filling his pipe? | 44 |
| Optimist's dream | 20 |
| One is whistled in "The King and I" | 45 |
| "Val-de-ri, val-de-ra" song, with "The" | 59 |
| Alfred E. Smith | 15 |
| Nickname for Hubert Humphrey, with "the" | 50 |
| Chance occurrences | 18 |
| Accidents | 9 |
| Unlucky accidents, old-style | 28 |
| Per or may add-on | 17 |
| Occurs, poetically | 18 |
| General Arnold et al. | 21 |
| Comes to pass, old-style | 24 |
| Chances, old-style | 18 |
| "They was watchin 'Yo! MTV Raps' / What's the ___ on the craps?": Ice Cube | 96 |
| German royal house | 18 |
| Maori clan | 10 |
| Dancers known for their Japanese street-style wardrobe | 54 |
| Self-destruction | 16 |
| End of Kurosawa's "Rashomon"? | 43 |
| Cio-Cio-San's way out | 25 |
| Act in "The Last Samurai" | 35 |
| "Shogun" rite | 23 |
| Boring or noisy communicators | 29 |
| Bombastic talkers | 17 |
| City of Ethiopia | 16 |
| City in Ethiopia | 16 |
| Land in Zimbabwe's capital? | 31 |
| Unrelenting pest | 16 |
| Pesky sort | 10 |
| More than a pest | 16 |
| Molester | 8 |
| Serious pests | 13 |
| Give those engaged in PDA a hard time? | 38 |
| Badgering | 9 |
| Bug the landlord | 16 |
| Large city northeast of Beijing | 31 |
| Robin or crocus, often | 22 |
| Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
| When to celebrate quays and piers? | 34 |
| Entertained, as an idea | 23 |
| One hiding fugitives, e.g. | 26 |
| One hiding fugitives | 20 |
| Coastal force | 13 |
| Song covered by Elvis Presley, Guy Lombardo, Bing Crosby, Sammy Kaye, and others | 80 |
| Mammals that dig up seaports? | 29 |
| Protect the "Kiss From a Rose" singer from the cops? | 62 |
| Coastal aquatic mammal | 22 |
| Seaport pushers | 15 |
| With Grace, a place in Newfoundland | 35 |
| New _____ , Newfoundland | 25 |
| Keep safe, in a way | 19 |
| Songwriter Yip | 14 |
| Publishing firm bought by Houghton Mifflin | 42 |
| British Columbia Premier Mike | 29 |
| Achieved through difficulty | 27 |
| Helm cry when away from the wind | 32 |
| Helm cry after "Ready about" | 38 |
| This is difficult to change | 27 |
| Strict criterion | 16 |
| _____ nails | 11 |
| Solid through and through | 25 |
| AC/DC "Ballbreaker" hit | 33 |
| Very difficult? | 15 |
| Extremely stern | 15 |
| Adamant; steely | 15 |
| Porn actor's penis? | 23 |
| Item with intrinsic value | 25 |
| Busy doing | 10 |
| ___ work (toiling earnestly) | 28 |
| Like unabridged print dictionaries | 34 |