| Action taken to improve a colleague's day | 45 |
| Action taken by Jessica and Lorenzo | 35 |
| Action star with no stunt double | 32 |
| Action star who served in the U.S. Air Force | 44 |
| Action star in "Above the Law" | 40 |
| Action shots taken with a slow shutter speed | 44 |
| Action scene in "True Blood"? | 39 |
| Action required by some treaties | 32 |
| Action onstage during an ovation | 32 |
| Action may make him laugh or cry? | 33 |
| Action in this puzzle's card game | 37 |
| Action hero's underwater breathing aid | 42 |
| Action flick about desert rockers? | 34 |
| Action film that featured John McClane | 38 |
| Action film in which Hans Gruber quotes Plutarch | 48 |
| Action film heroes are often in it | 34 |
| Action figure tie-in to a '70s TV detective? | 48 |
| Action discussed by a hamartiologist | 36 |
| Action demanded by W. L. Garrison | 33 |
| Action before crying "You're it!" | 47 |
| Action before blowing out the candles | 37 |
| Action at a duplicate tournament | 32 |
| Action appropriate for this puzzle | 34 |
| Action actor's twin in silks? | 33 |
| Acting twins Ashley and Mary-Kate | 33 |
| Acting on a single number, mathematically | 41 |
| Acting like one has something to hide | 37 |
| Acting like a hidden rattlesnake | 32 |
| Acting instructor's deg., perhaps | 37 |
| Acting genre once studied by David Bowie | 40 |
| Acting baseball commissioner Bud | 32 |
| Acted the parrot or copycat, in simian terms | 44 |
| Acted rudely while in a line, maybe | 35 |
| Acted on ___ (rose to the challenge) | 36 |
| Acted in an environmentally conscious way | 41 |
| Acted impetuously, N.R.A. style? | 32 |
| Acted arrogantly with, with "around" | 46 |
| Actaeon, ultimately, in Greek myth | 34 |
| Act ___, "La Traviata" finale | 39 |
| Act without the parents' blessings, say | 43 |
| Act vigorously, like Severinsen? | 32 |
| Act to retain one's property at auction | 43 |
| Act the sycophant, with "over" | 40 |
| Act the political hypocrite in wartime? | 39 |
| Act the ham in "Hamlet" | 33 |
| Act the fool or, alternately, act the fool? | 43 |
| Act the couch potato (with "out") | 43 |
| Act the affectionate grandparent | 32 |
| Act that's "contagious" | 37 |
| Act rudely at the checkout counter | 34 |
| Act on a sudden itching for a hitching | 38 |
| Act on a sudden itch to get hitched | 35 |
| Act of putting into another alphabet | 36 |
| Act of minimizing, as of expenses | 33 |
| Act of instantaneous prayer, in modern-day jargon | 49 |
| Act of God, e.g. (broken in two places) | 39 |
| Act of exasperation, in modern-day slang | 40 |
| Act of dressing and grooming oneself | 36 |
| Act of British Parl. that created Canada | 40 |
| Act of betrayal that appears friendly | 37 |
| Act of 1941, giving aid to Allies | 33 |
| Act like the birds in "The Birds" | 43 |
| Act like Tennyson's "Brigade" | 43 |
| Act like Dustin Hoffman in 1982? | 32 |
| Act like an overly protective parent | 36 |
| Act like an expert without being one | 36 |
| Act like a photographer's model | 35 |
| Act like a doting grandma, perhaps | 34 |
| Act like a couch potato, with "out" | 45 |
| Act in an amusingly affected way | 32 |
| Act in "The Last Samurai" | 35 |
| Act impulsively, as young lovers | 32 |
| Act II action in "Romeo and Juliet" | 45 |
| Act II action for Romeo and Juliet | 34 |
| Act I—"On a secret mission" | 44 |
| Act I figure in "Hamlet" | 34 |
| Act human, according to a proverb | 33 |
| Act condemned by 396 U.S. cities | 32 |
| Act as a prompter in the theater | 32 |
| Across-the-gulf neighbor of Somalia | 35 |
| Across-the-Atlantic flier of old, briefly | 41 |
| Across mid-field in football slang | 34 |
| Acronymic U.S. road sign until 1972 | 35 |
| Acronymic truism about processing faulty data | 45 |
| Acronymic title once held by MacArthur | 38 |
| Acronymic title character of '80s TV | 40 |
| Acronymic Pearl Jam "Yield" song | 42 |
| Acronymic motto popularized by Drake | 36 |
| Acronymic computer language name | 32 |
| Acronym used when you plan to BRB, say | 38 |
| Acronym used to protest new landfills | 37 |
| Acronym used to protest nearby landfills | 40 |
| Acronym used a lot by Rachael Ray | 33 |
| Acronym that triggered protest blackouts in 2012 | 48 |
| Acronym that includes middle sch. | 33 |
| Acronym song off "Black Sabbath" | 42 |
| Acronym popularized by Rachael Ray | 34 |
| Acronym meaning 'Hurry!' | 32 |
| Acronym Jeff Gordon is familiar with | 36 |
| Acronym in 2013 Supreme Court news | 34 |