| Vacation lodging purchase ... or an arrangement between the two halves of the answer to each starred clue? | 106 |
| Vacation house co-op plan | 25 |
| Vacation condo, perhaps | 23 |
| Summer place, maybe | 19 |
| Regular vacationer's option | 31 |
| Purchase for a vacation, maybe | 30 |
| Plan for vacations | 18 |
| Certain vacation plan | 21 |
| Record of hours worked | 22 |
| School specializing in multiplication? | 38 |
| Periods beyond record | 21 |
| Eons ago | 8 |
| Superlative qualifier added to a childish argument in hopes of eliminating any potential for a further retort (of course, anyone who's been involved in a childish argument knows that you can just add | 203 |
| Overly engaging websites with little value, say | 47 |
| Angry Birds or Tetris, e.g. | 27 |
| Activities that consume many hours | 34 |
| TV programmer's concern | 27 |
| Programming opening | 19 |
| Programmer's opening | 24 |
| Program assignment | 18 |
| Place on a TV schedule | 22 |
| It can make or break a TV show | 30 |
| Every TV show has one | 21 |
| Broadcaster's scheduling unit | 33 |
| Bit of TV real estate | 21 |
| TV schedule openings | 20 |
| Sunrise and sunset | 18 |
| Moments when an omen appears? | 29 |
| Acme weapon that makes you feel like a kid again (literally), from "Mad as a Mars Hare," 1963 | 103 |
| Millenniums and minutes | 23 |
| New Orleans daily, with "The" | 39 |
| X, often | 8 |
| Mark in math | 12 |
| Where the ball is dropped | 25 |
| Where Yankees fans cheer a dropped ball? | 40 |
| Where some are on December 31 | 29 |
| Timely site | 11 |
| Site of New Year's Eve celebration | 38 |
| Scene of an annual ball-dropping | 32 |
| Popular Manhattan locale | 24 |
| Popular celebration site at year's end | 42 |
| New Year's Eve hot spot | 27 |
| Media focus each 12/31 | 22 |
| Busy area of Manhattan (and the theme of this puzzle) | 53 |
| Party in New York City? | 23 |
| It's dropped once per year | 30 |
| New Year's dropper | 22 |
| Arithmetic lesson | 17 |
| Multiplication aid | 18 |
| Some arithmetic to memorize | 27 |
| Elementary school arithmetic assignment | 39 |
| Chart using only one font? | 26 |
| Some memorization in arithmetic class | 37 |
| Math memorization | 17 |
| Math class topics | 17 |
| Email attachment? | 17 |
| E-mail datum | 12 |
| Percussion instrument owned by a New York newspaper? | 52 |
| Critic's negative review of a newsmagazine? | 47 |
| "Put your pencils down!" | 34 |
| Number of at-bats | 17 |
| Comment after the bell | 22 |
| Obit for a Los Angeles paper? | 29 |
| Monitor's announcement | 26 |
| Living Colour's second album | 32 |
| End-of-test announcement | 24 |
| "Put down your pencils!" | 34 |
| "Pencils down" | 24 |
| Train-station freebie | 21 |
| Reference work of a sort | 24 |
| Reading reading | 15 |
| Arrival-departure sheet | 23 |
| Amtrak handout | 14 |
| Travel schedules | 16 |
| Train station schedules | 23 |
| Proven over a long period | 25 |
| Lasting for years | 17 |
| Get ahead carefully on a highway | 32 |
| Speedy marching rate | 20 |
| 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit? | 22 |
| Rhythm for waltzing, literally | 30 |
| "Keeping ___ /In sort of Runic rhyme": Poe | 52 |
| Wicker's "A ___ Die" | 34 |
| Ford's "A ___ Heal . . . " | 40 |
| "___ re-tire" (old Fisk ad) | 37 |
| 'There's no -- lose!' | 33 |
| End of the advice to a baby boomer | 34 |
| "We're finished here" | 35 |
| Words said while tapping on a watch | 35 |
| Cry just before leaving | 23 |
| "Pack it up" | 22 |
| "Let's get a move on!" | 36 |
| ''We're finished here'' | 43 |
| "I'm outa here" | 29 |
| What people with nothing to do have | 35 |
| Early-bird's reward, often | 30 |
| Couple of free hours, say | 25 |
| Fourth down for the offensively challenged? | 43 |
| Porcupine army's attack command? | 36 |
| From ___ (occasionally) | 23 |