| Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) | 79 |
| Approach to arithmetic that emphasizes underlying ideas rather than exact calculations | 86 |
| Appropriately named monthly of the National Puzzlers' League, with "The" | 86 |
| Après-___ (following a day on the slopes -- and, literally, where the first words of the four longest puzzle answers can be found) | 133 |
| Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers | 79 |
| Apt place to listen to Brian Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets"? | 75 |
| Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them | 112 |
| Aptly named red tabby who played Cat in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" | 78 |
| Aptly, the Nobel Prize for Physics was presented by this actor who played Zorro, ... | 84 |
| Arcade game in which characters can pass through tunnels to get to the other side of the screen | 95 |
| Architect whose epitaph says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you" | 90 |
| Area between the National Mall and The White House (with "The") | 73 |
| Aretha Franklin album with the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful" | 72 |
| Argument that doesn't exist until created for political gain, in modern-day slang | 85 |
| Arizona Indians whose name comes from a phrase meaning "I don't know" | 83 |
| Arkansas real estate group under scrutiny in the Whitewater investigations | 75 |
| Arkansas town that calls itself the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" | 83 |
| Arlen/Mercer song "Blues in the Night ("My Mama Done ___ Me") | 76 |
| Army post merged with McGuire AFB and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst | 77 |
| Arrest a mako in an African river? (and three words that can follow WHITE and BLUE, but not RED) | 96 |
| Art punk band whose members appear as tophat-wearing giant eyeballs, with "The" | 89 |
| Art Spiegelman's book with the subtitle "A Survivor's Tale" | 77 |
| Arthur who played Larry David's mother on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 78 |
| Arthur who was the first Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 80 |
| Arthur whom The Smoking Gun claims was "a truck-driving Marine" | 73 |
| Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| Article in a German paper?[For the explanation to last week's puzzle, see the last clue down.] | 98 |
| Artist and chess player who said "While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists" | 115 |
| Artist Krasner, for whose portrayal Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar in "Pollock" | 89 |
| Artist Muniz who's the subject of the documentary 'Waste Land' | 74 |
| Artist with the #1 albums "Relapse" (2009) and "Recovery" (2010) | 84 |
| Artist with the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker | 72 |
| Artist's pseudonym formed from the French pronunciation of his initials | 75 |
| Artwork using both paint and collage, e.g. ... and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 94 |
| As a 16-year-old actor, youngest nonroyal with an individual portrait in Britain's National Portrait Gallery | 112 |
| As it was formerly known, channel with the slogan "play every day" | 76 |
| Asian capital that was from 2004-07 home of the world's tallest building | 76 |
| Asimov called it "bad . . . but it is immortal for that one word" | 75 |
| Asked, burst open, extracted, or broke, as the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 93 |
| Assassin code name of Bridget Fonda's character in "Point of No Return" | 85 |
| Asset in answering the question "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 77 |
| Asset-freezing org. (CONTEST ALERT! My new all-skill, solve-at-home crossword contest benefiting the Alzheimer's Foundation of America is Sept. 30. First prize, $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn. | 204 |
| Assistant D.A. who joined McKenzie Brackman in season 4 after a brief stint as a judge (126 episodes) | 101 |
| Assistant director for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" | 78 |
| Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
| Athlete who said: "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" | 93 |
| Athlete who's been #1 on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list six years in a row | 83 |
| Atlanta arena that hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention, with "the" | 87 |
| Atmosphere lyric "___ enough, I'm happy I ain't famous." | 74 |
| Atmospheric condition in which there is no visibility both horizontally and vertically | 86 |
| Attempts to get a higher court to overturn one's espionage conviction? | 74 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
| ATV that requires you say a "Hail Mary" before starting the engine? | 77 |
| Audi rival, and, when spoken as a command, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Auntie who said "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 93 |
| Australian cager Andrew who was selected first overall in the 2005 NBA draft | 76 |
| Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" | 82 |
| Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature" | 77 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Author Michael who hated the movie version of "The Neverending Story" | 79 |
| Author of "Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series" | 80 |
| Author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" | 82 |
| Author of "How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World" | 72 |
| Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | 76 |
| Author of "Paris in the 20th Century," an 1863 novel first published in 1994 | 86 |
| Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why Nafta Must Be Stopped — Now!" | 91 |
| Author of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" | 75 |
| Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order | 92 |
| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise) | 72 |
| Author of the 2009 book subtitled "A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" | 80 |
| Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" | 87 |
| Author of the children's book "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" | 86 |
| Author of the controversial kids' book "In the Night Kitchen" | 75 |
| Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys" | 79 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| Author of the story that inspired "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" | 77 |
| Author of the surreal Zen-like book of instructions "Grapefruit" | 74 |
| Author Prosper __ who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based | 75 |
| Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama | 113 |
| Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" | 84 |
| Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" | 107 |
| Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" | 79 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| Author who said "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die" | 77 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
| Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work | 84 |
| Autobiography subtitled "A Baseball Life" by a Yankees bench coach | 76 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| Awaken, and words that can precede first words of answers to asterisked clues | 77 |
| Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" | 88 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| Award given to the creators of Dos Equis' "The Most Interesting Man" ad | 85 |
| Award honoring literature that features women's stories set in the West | 75 |
| Award won by lead actors in this puzzle's starred films: the winners' names are hidden "word search"-style in the grid (across, down or diagonally, and forward or backward) | 190 |