| Actor Patel of "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" | 57 |
| Actor Nick with an especially unflattering 2002 mug shot | 56 |
| Actor Michael who wrote "Hemingway's Chair" | 57 |
| Actor Michael of "Circumstantial Evidence" | 52 |
| Actor Lyle of 1950's TV's "The Bob Cummings Show" | 67 |
| Actor Lye of "You Can't Do That on Television" | 60 |
| Actor Lukas of "Witness" and "Mars Attacks!" | 64 |
| Actor Louis who starred in "Julius Caesar," 1953 | 58 |
| Actor linked with the line "Just the facts, ma'am" | 64 |
| Actor Lesser who played Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld" | 57 |
| Actor LaBeouf of the "Transformers" series | 52 |
| Actor Keanu who has played in the bands Dogstar and Becky | 57 |
| Actor Johnson of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" | 52 |
| Actor Jim of "Moulin Rouge!" getting his car restarted? | 65 |
| Actor Jannings, winner of the first Best Actor Oscar | 52 |
| Actor in the Best Picture winners of 1975, 1983 and 2006 | 56 |
| Actor in Broadway's "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 55 |
| Actor in both "Warrior" and "Peaceful Warrior" | 66 |
| Actor in a '60s sitcom with "54" in the title | 59 |
| Actor in "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" | 57 |
| Actor in "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca" | 66 |
| ACTOR IN "PATRIOT GAMES" AND "GOLDENEYE" | 60 |
| Actor in "MASH" and "Tower Heist" | 53 |
| Actor in "I Spy," 1965–68 TV series | 52 |
| Actor in "Honeymoon in Vegas" and "Las Vegas" | 65 |
| Actor Holm who voiced Skinner in "Ratatouille" | 56 |
| Actor Herbert of "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" | 59 |
| Actor Hempstead-Wright of "Game of Thrones" | 53 |
| Actor Hank in 2011's short-lived "Free Agents" | 60 |
| Actor Guy who played Ed Exley in "L.A. Confidential" | 62 |
| Actor Guy of "Memento" and "The Time Machine" | 65 |
| Actor George who won an Oscar for "Disraeli" | 54 |
| Actor Furlong of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" | 55 |
| Actor from "Caprica" and "NYPD Blue" | 56 |
| Actor Fred who played the judge in "My Cousin Vinny" | 62 |
| Actor Elliott of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" | 53 |
| Actor Ed who was Carl Fredericksen's voice in "Up" | 64 |
| Actor Coco who played Milo Perrier in "Murder by Death" | 65 |
| Actor Chevy who most recently appeared on NBC's "Chuck" | 69 |
| Actor Butterfield who played Hugo in "Hugo" | 53 |
| Actor Bruce of radio's "Sherlock Holmes" | 54 |
| Actor Brendan of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" | 63 |
| Actor Billy who played the villain in 1997's "Titanic" | 68 |
| Actor and stuntman Jackie of the "Rush Hour" movies | 61 |
| Actor Alan of ''Gilligan's Island'' | 55 |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries | 53 |
| Activity portrayed in 2013's "Gravity" | 52 |
| Activity in which you might bust someone's chops | 52 |
| Activity in which people are not playing with a full deck | 57 |
| Activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines | 69 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| Action that makes bad situations worse, and this puzzle's theme | 67 |
| Action star nicknamed "Muscles from Brussels" | 55 |
| Action series featuring Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin | 56 |
| Acted like the "Supermassive Black Hole" band? | 56 |
| Act affectedly, and what this puzzle's theme entries do? | 60 |
| Across-the-pond speech patterns studied by British actors | 57 |
| Acronym used to protest potential environmental hazards nearby | 62 |
| Acronym used to protest environmental hazards nearby | 52 |
| Acronym of a scientific project seeking contact with alien life | 63 |
| Acknowledgement of a deviation, usually after "but" | 61 |
| Ackbar is one in "Return of the Jedi" (abbr.) | 55 |
| Acid that helps you learn how to play "Free Bird"? | 60 |
| Acid jazz band with the 1996 hit "Virtual Insanity" | 61 |
| Achille ___ (cruise ship that was a 1985 terrorism site) | 56 |
| Acerbic wife in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” | 61 |
| Ace who threw the first no-hitter at Denver's Coors Field in 1996 | 69 |
| Accouterment popularized by a "Seinfeld" episode | 58 |
| Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers | 62 |
| According to the Bible, the seventh-oldest man at 905 years young | 65 |
| According to predictions in the show "Medium"? | 56 |
| Accompanier of "thumbs" and "ears" | 54 |
| Acclaimed 2000 miniseries about crack addicts in Baltimore | 58 |
| Accidentally contact a contact from your back pocket | 52 |
| Acceleration unit named after a famous Italian physicist | 56 |
| Academy Award-nominated lyricist of "Come Saturday Morning" | 69 |
| Academy Award winner who said "I dream for a living" | 62 |
| AC/DC's Chuck Berry cover "School ___" | 52 |
| AC/DC song with the lyric "I'm dynamite" | 54 |
| AC/DC jam orig. called "The Clap" (with "The") | 66 |
| AC/DC "Powerage" song about the undesirables? | 55 |
| AC/DC "Cause I'm ___, I'm dynamite" | 53 |
| Abused Mexican immigrant character created by the Jerky Boys | 60 |
| Abu ___ Bay, site of Horatio Nelson's naval victory, 1798 | 61 |
| Abstract sculptor whose work is seen at Lincoln Center | 54 |
| Abridged Shakespeare play featuring only a famous soliloquy? | 60 |
| Abram's original "This Old House" co-host | 55 |
| Aboveground dwellers in "The Time Machine" | 52 |
| Above-average grade, or alternate title for the puzzle | 54 |
| About which the Bible says "Consider her ways, and be wise" | 69 |
| About to lose your shirt in a secret "flight connection"? | 67 |
| About a quarter of the population of Sicily lives on its slopes | 63 |
| Abolitionist-founded Kentucky college that charges no tuition | 61 |
| Able to tear a phonebook in half with one's bare hands, perhaps | 67 |
| Ability to encourage people to use designated drivers, say? | 59 |
| Ability to drink alcohol without evident drunkenness | 52 |
| Ability to adjust one's balance to the motion of a ship | 59 |
| Abductees' destinations, in some hard-to-believe stories | 60 |
| ABC show that ended its fourth season with a car crash cliffhanger | 66 |
| Abby and Martha, to Mortimer, in "Arsenic and Old Lace" | 65 |