| Word with ''when,'' ''what'' or ''who'' | 87 |
| Word with ''temporary'' or ''practical'' | 72 |
| Word with ''retirement'' or ''graduation'' | 74 |
| Word with ''queen,'' ''oyster'' or ''flower'' | 93 |
| Word with ''in,'' ''up'' or ''down'' | 84 |
| Word with ''hitching'' or ''scratching'' | 72 |
| Word with ''forward,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 89 |
| Word with ''Entertainment!'' or ''Amore'' | 73 |
| Word with ''down,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 86 |
| Word with ''doll,'' ''clip'' or ''bag'' | 87 |
| Word with ''day now'' or ''other questions'' | 76 |
| Word with ''boat,'' ''fire'' or ''smith'' | 89 |
| Word with ''blue,'' ''green'' or ''brown'' | 90 |
| Word with ''black,'' ''red'' or ''pink'' | 88 |
| Word with ''bagatelle'' or ''technicality'' | 75 |
| Word with ''aside,'' ''down'' or ''on'' | 87 |
| Word used to describe a film made by The Asylum movie studio, such as "Transmorphers" or "Sunday School Musical" | 132 |
| Word that's only coincidentally made up of the four main compass points | 75 |
| Word that shouldn't precede ''estimate'' or ''replica'' | 91 |
| Word that may elicit the response "And don't call me Shirley" | 75 |
| Word that led to the "Why a duck?" routine by the Marx brothers | 73 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end | 72 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front | 74 |
| Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starred clue | 106 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings (like this puzzle's eight theme entries) | 93 |
| Word that goes in either blank of the David Bowie classic "___ to ___" | 80 |
| Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| Word that could mean “sparsely filled with settlers” or “added a certain punctuation mark to” | 109 |
| Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
| Word that could mean “force vacationers to vacate” or “one who takes alternate routes” | 102 |
| Word that could mean “before Samuel Johnson’s 1755 book” or “related to fortunetelling” | 107 |
| Word that could mean “become too small to see” or “similar to a family vehicle” | 95 |
| Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" | 90 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the twelve starred entries in this puzzle | 81 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues | 75 |
| Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle | 117 |
| Word that can mean "deteriorate" or "resist deterioration" | 78 |
| Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| Word that can follow the first word of this puzzle's four longest answers | 77 |
| Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries | 76 |
| Word that can be inserted in "mound" to make a synonym for "stagnant" | 89 |
| Word that becomes its own synonym if the last letter is moved to the front | 74 |
| Word that "run" replaced as the OED entry with the most definitions | 77 |
| Word rhymed with "yacht" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain" | 92 |
| Word repeated three times in the score to John Cage's "4'33"" | 84 |
| Word repeated in Shelley's line "___ happiness, ___ majesty, ___ fame" | 84 |
| Word repeated in Emily Dickinson's "___ so much joy! ___ so much joy!" | 84 |
| Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech | 109 |
| Word or phrase with no repeated letters, such as every answer in this puzzle | 76 |
| Word or phrase that has no repeated letters (every answer in this puzzle is an example of one) | 94 |
| Word on a towel for couples who I guess couldn't find different colored towels | 82 |
| Word of greeting and parting with the derivation "I am your servant" | 78 |
| Word of encouragement with ''boy'' or ''girl'' | 78 |
| Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense | 103 |
| Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" | 129 |
| Word fragment repeated multiple times by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 94 |
| Word fragment repeated by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 79 |
| Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
| Word for a lefty derived from the orientation of this grid's "diamond" | 84 |
| Word for "beginning" that encloses four answers in this puzzle | 72 |
| Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary | 72 |
| Word elisions, as in "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle" | 75 |
| Word derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning "one-twelfth" | 78 |
| Word before and after "Tovarich" in a "Doctor Zhivago" number | 81 |
| Word before "rain," "heat" and "gloom of night" in a postal creed | 95 |
| Word before "knows," "hurts," and "dance now," in various song titles | 99 |
| Word before "happiness," "majesty" and "fame" at the start of a Shelley poem | 106 |
| Word appearing twice after "Boogie" in a 1978 #1 hit's title | 74 |
| Word after "Don't pass" and "Don't come" on a craps table | 85 |
| Word after "does" and "doesn't" in an old ad slogan | 75 |
| Word after ''last'' or before ''of passage'' | 76 |
| Word accompanying "Much," "Little" and "Late" in a 1978 #1 hit | 92 |
| Word accented on the antepenultimate syllable (the answer is an example of one) | 79 |
| Woodwind with the "swan" melody in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" | 84 |
| Wooded area mentioned at the start of Longfellow's "Evangeline" | 77 |
| Woman's name heard in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 75 |
| Woman who said "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father" | 94 |
| Without any chance at all (and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme) | 74 |
| With only ~66,000 inhabitants, it's still the second most populous city in Montana | 86 |
| With “The,” 1973 Alistair MacLean novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| With “The,” 1929 William Faulkner novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| With "The," TV series whose relationships were mapped by "The Chart" | 88 |
| With "The," sitcom that made Time's 10 Best TV Series of 2001 list | 80 |
| With "The," punk-pop band who sang "Bitchin' Camaro" | 76 |
| With "The," orchestral work whose movements share the names of the starred clue/entry pairs ... | 105 |
| With "The," NBC drama inspired by the film "The American President" | 87 |
| With "The," magazine described as "the flagship of the left" | 80 |
| With "The," L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded "Hot August Night" | 94 |
| With "The," inspirational bestseller that made About.com's "Top 10 Books of 2008" | 105 |
| With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" | 106 |
| With "The," former sketch comedy program on CBS ... fittingly enough | 78 |
| With "The," Entertainment Weekly's pick for worst TV show of 2008 | 79 |
| With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |
| With "The," classic novel, each of whose major characters is hiding in a row of this puzzle | 101 |
| With "The," city with a lake called the Hofvijver at its center | 73 |
| 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," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy | 78 |
| With "The," 1989 Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner film that starts with a card game? | 93 |