| With "And," a Perry Como hit favored by couch potatoes? | 65 |
| With "arch," Michel or Gabriel | 40 |
| With "association," legal group in Arkansas or Tennessee, for instance | 80 |
| With "Beach," a Florida city | 38 |
| With "bonnet," Houston's bowl | 43 |
| With "brand," fresh on the shelves | 44 |
| With "breve," 2/2 time | 32 |
| With "California," it's south of California | 57 |
| With "capnist," hater of tobacco smoke | 48 |
| With "cause," it's a controversy | 46 |
| With "cerebral," a brain part | 39 |
| With "coals," firewalking phrase | 42 |
| With "Dies," a famous hymn | 36 |
| With "dorsalis," a desert iguana | 42 |
| With "El," British victory site of 1942 | 49 |
| With "eye," public blights | 36 |
| With "F," end-of-week cry | 35 |
| With "F," weekly sigh at the office | 45 |
| With "favor," señor's "Please" | 57 |
| With "foot," an oil for leather | 41 |
| With "fu," a karate kin | 33 |
| With "future," it's soon | 38 |
| With "gram," a word puzzle | 36 |
| With "honorable," award for also-ran | 46 |
| With "it" | 19 |
| With "Le", Belgian newspaper | 38 |
| With "leave," settle for the existing situation | 57 |
| With "Little," Prince's transportation in 1983? | 61 |
| With "long," this means soon | 38 |
| With "Madre," a mountain range | 40 |
| With "McCann," global advertising company | 51 |
| With "Molto," it means "well done" | 54 |
| With "more," it's again | 37 |
| With "not," firm disavowal | 36 |
| With "of," in total agreement | 39 |
| With "of," keep from having | 37 |
| With "off," British swearer's phrase | 50 |
| With "off," irate | 27 |
| With "out," roll a bad seven | 38 |
| With "par," bogey | 27 |
| With "phobia," fear of strangers | 42 |
| With "play," it's easy as pie | 43 |
| With "potassium," it's a food preservative | 56 |
| With "quiet," an oxymoron | 35 |
| With "rotatory," counterclockwise | 43 |
| With "short," a curt rejection | 40 |
| With "short," an unsympathetic rejection | 50 |
| With "show," demonstrate skill | 40 |
| With "show," get better | 33 |
| With "slug," a lazybones | 34 |
| With "tai," a rum drink | 33 |
| With "The", Dr. Seuss opus | 36 |
| With "The", McQueen/Newman film | 41 |
| With "The", Nicholson/Freeman film | 44 |
| With "the", past decade name, to Arthur C. Clarke? | 60 |
| With "the", past decade name, to mischief-makers? | 59 |
| With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? | 78 |
| With "The," "Hair" song that changes during January and February? | 85 |
| With "The," 1948 Red Skelton movie about door-to-door sales | 69 |
| With "The," 1955 F.S. hit | 35 |
| With "The," 1958 Hudson/Stack movie about a former WWI ace | 68 |
| With "The," 1960s series set in the North African desert during WWII | 78 |
| With "The," 1967 gore film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis | 71 |
| With "The," 1971 best-seller about an evil twin | 57 |
| With "The," 1972 Frederick Forsyth novel | 50 |
| With "The," 1978 Diana Ross musical | 45 |
| With "The," 1978 horror mystery with John Huston--refilmed in 3-D? | 76 |
| With "The," 1978 play that won a Pulitzer | 51 |
| With "The," 1980 Anthony Hopkins film | 47 |
| With "The," 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama featuring the "Brat Pack" | 89 |
| With "The," 1989 Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner film that starts with a card game? | 93 |
| With "The," 1994 movie with Anthony Hopkins and Dana Carvey | 69 |
| With "The," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy | 78 |
| With "The," a John Grisham book | 41 |
| With "The," a mystery novel | 37 |
| With "The," a Stravinsky ballet | 41 |
| With "The," a system for actors | 41 |
| With "The," animated Disney feline flick | 50 |
| With "The," another Broadway hit | 42 |
| With "The," backing band beloved by daredevil surfers? | 64 |
| With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
| With "the," band with the 2006 remix album "Love" | 69 |
| With "The," Bette Midler's debut album | 52 |
| With "The," book after Ecclesiastes | 45 |
| With "the," Boston skyscraper, familiarly | 51 |
| With "the," Boston skyscraper, informally | 51 |
| With "The," Caesar's favorite comedy? | 51 |
| With "The," city with a lake called the Hofvijver at its center | 73 |
| With "The," classic novel, each of whose major characters is hiding in a row of this puzzle | 101 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |
| With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
| With "The," Entertainment Weekly's pick for worst TV show of 2008 | 79 |
| With "the," everything outside the U.S.? | 50 |
| With "The," film from a biblical phrase | 49 |
| With "The," former sketch comedy program on CBS ... fittingly enough | 78 |
| With "The," Frederick Forsyth thriller | 48 |
| With "The," G. Peck movie | 35 |
| With "The," George Peppard show | 41 |
| With "The," groundbreaking Showtime TV series | 55 |
| With "The," Gus Bailey's transportation in 1917? | 62 |