| One making picks and pans | 25 |
| Knocker | 7 |
| Certain opening night attendee | 30 |
| Slanted scribe | 14 |
| Siskell or Ebert | 16 |
| Siskel or Ebert | 15 |
| Rotten Tomatoes contributor | 27 |
| Role played by everyone, it's said | 38 |
| Roger Ebert, e.g. | 17 |
| Rex Reed, e.g. | 14 |
| Restaurant rater | 16 |
| Penner of pans | 14 |
| Pan producer, perhaps | 21 |
| Opening-night regular | 21 |
| Opening night invitee | 21 |
| Movie reviewer | 14 |
| Jon Lovitz animated series, with "The" | 48 |
| He's quick on the flaw | 26 |
| Gael Greene or Rex Reed | 23 |
| Certain opening-night attendee | 30 |
| Arts writer | 11 |
| "Everyone's a ___" | 32 |
| "Everyone's a ___!" | 33 |
| Disparaging | 11 |
| Absolutely necessary | 20 |
| Decisive | 8 |
| All-important | 13 |
| Life-and-death | 14 |
| Fault-finding | 13 |
| Very choosy | 11 |
| At a turning point | 18 |
| Raves | 5 |
| Rave reviews | 12 |
| Great all-around reviews | 24 |
| Four-star ratings, say | 22 |
| Church service with a finger-wagging message? | 45 |
| Chain reaction requirement | 26 |
| Amount necessary to achieve a result | 36 |
| Certain writers | 15 |
| Every film has some | 19 |
| They give films stars | 21 |
| Their thoughts are on the record | 32 |
| Some opening night theatergoers | 31 |
| Review writers | 14 |
| Rappers | 7 |
| First-nighters | 14 |
| First-night crowd | 17 |
| Fault finders | 13 |
| Review | 6 |
| Reviewer's article | 22 |
| Review, as an article | 21 |
| Point out the pluses and minuses of | 35 |
| Analytic review | 15 |
| Beastie | 7 |
| It's a livin' thing | 27 |
| Hoss, e.g. | 10 |
| Horse, to a cowpoke | 19 |
| Cow or horse, to a ranch hand | 29 |
| Bossy or hoss | 13 |
| Backwoods beast | 15 |
| Animal, Western style | 21 |
| Animal, to granny | 17 |
| ___-Magnon | 10 |
| ___-Magnon man | 14 |
| __-Magnon | 9 |
| -- -Magnon | 10 |
| Magnon preceder | 15 |
| __-Magnon man | 13 |
| -- -Magnon man | 14 |
| ____ -Magnon | 12 |
| Zagreb's land, to the IOC | 29 |
| Vel attachment? | 15 |
| ___ Magnon | 10 |
| Zagreb's country, to the IOC | 32 |
| Magnon lead-in | 14 |
| _____-Magnon | 12 |
| ___ -Magnon | 11 |
| Part of the former Yugoslavia: abbr. | 36 |
| Magnon start | 12 |
| ''Magnon'' lead-in | 34 |
| --- -Magnon | 11 |
| ___-Magnon (prehistoric man) | 28 |
| ____-Magnon | 11 |
| ____ magnon | 11 |
| The ___-Mags (classic punk rock band) | 37 |
| Olympics participant since 1992, to the IOC | 43 |
| Magnon's head | 17 |
| Magnon prefix | 13 |
| Magnon opener | 13 |
| Magnon leader | 13 |
| HUN neighbor, to the IOC | 24 |
| Early man's beginning? | 26 |
| Early man prefix | 16 |
| Country code next to Goran Ivanisevic's name at the Olympics | 64 |
| Cartoon series about a cave boy | 31 |
| Balkan land, in the Olympics | 28 |
| Assassins reward (Celtic) | 25 |
| "Magnon" add-on start | 31 |
| ___magnon | 9 |
| ___-Magnon race | 15 |