| Animator who dropped out of high school to join the army (but was rejected) | 75 |
| Announcement/event of September 2011, or what happened to the theme answers | 75 |
| Announcer who was the first to call DiMaggio "Joltin' Joe" | 72 |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers | 88 |
| Annual English sports event that begins today, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 84 |
| Annual plant that produces many future plants, as its name would suggest | 72 |
| Annual solving competition held in Brooklyn, briefly ... and a hint to nine squares in this grid | 96 |
| Annual three-day music festival named after the California Valley it takes place in | 83 |
| Annual wetlands tournament involving cattails and water lilies, casually? | 73 |
| Another way of saying "Preyed-on animals of the world, unite"? | 72 |
| Answer to ''Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?'' | 77 |
| Answer to "Charlie Sheen, do you remember the name of your 'Bad Day on the Block' co-star?" | 109 |
| Answer to "Which of the Justices started eating this sandwich?"? | 74 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| Answer to "who's responsible for eating all the cheese I left out?"? | 82 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" | 86 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What lies flat when empty, sits up when full?" | 82 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Answer to the question, "In your opinion, what do you suppose is the object most likely to scare away Dracula?"? | 122 |
| Answer to the question, "Which part of your sinuses hurts the most"? | 78 |
| Answer to the riddle "The higher it goes, the less you hear it" | 73 |
| Answer to the riddle "What has rivers without water, forests without trees, and cities without houses?" | 113 |
| Answer to the riddle, "What's brown and sounds like a bell?" | 74 |
| Answers to "do you solve mots croisés?" from anyone reading this | 77 |
| Antelopes discovered that graze only at twilight; appropriately, they're called ... | 87 |
| Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character | 92 |
| Antepenultimate word in the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live" | 77 |
| Anterograde ___ (affliction suffered by the protagonist of "Memento") | 79 |
| Anthony's "Remains of the Day" and "Howards End" costar | 79 |
| Anti-abuse org. [To see the original color version of this puzzle's unusual grid, visit sundaycrosswords.com.] | 115 |
| Antiperspirant brand once advertised as "strong enough for a man" | 75 |
| Antiperspirant that comes in "Fresh Blast" and "Fast Break" scents | 86 |
| Anton ___ (character voiced by Peter O'Toole in "Ratatouille") | 76 |
| Antonius Block's chess opponent in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" | 81 |
| Any characters on "Friday Night Lights" (geographically speaking) | 75 |
| Anybody featured in a high school yearbook, if you don't count teachers | 75 |
| 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 |