| Keeps going longer than is technically really necessary and then begins to start to become awkward, as a sentence | 113 |
| Keaton, née Hall, who won the Best Actress Oscar for "Annie Hall" | 78 |
| Kaufman play based on the Matthew Shepard incident, with "The" | 72 |
| Kathy Griffin's life is on it, according to the title of her reality show | 77 |
| Kate's role opposite Cate's Katharine in "The Aviator" | 72 |
| Kardashian who's on this season's "Dancing With the Stars" | 76 |
| Kansas City ___, Negro Leagues team with Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and Ernie Banks | 87 |
| Kagan who saved crossword constructors from having to reference a very old actress or a Russian tennis player | 109 |
| Justice who mouthed "not true" during Obama's 2010 State of the Union address | 91 |
| Justice who Joe Lieberman recently announced that he regrets voting against | 75 |
| Just making things up, or a synonym for a three-word phrase describing this puzzle's theme entries | 102 |
| Just before he died, he said, "I 'ope you liked your drink" | 73 |
| Just about the hardest (and least sanitary) game ever, unless you're an anteater? | 85 |
| Jurassic genus whose name means, literally, "different lizard" | 72 |
| Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" | 84 |
| Julie London's sultry song in "The Girl Can't Help It" | 72 |
| Julian Assange's controversial website, and a hint to what's missing from this puzzle's four longest answers | 120 |
| Julia ___, first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters | 74 |
| Julia Ormond title character with a "Sense of Snow" in a 1997 film | 76 |
| Julia Farnsworth's millionaire husband in "Heaven Can Wait" | 73 |
| Judy who was the singing voice of Pocahontas in Disney's "Pocahontas" | 83 |
| Judge who Wikipedia calls "regular fodder for crossword puzzles" | 74 |
| Judge of the underworld, in Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" | 72 |
| Journalist you can't take seriously 'cause he's just so gosh darn cute? | 83 |
| Journalist Geraldo responsible for the "Al Capone's vault" debacle | 80 |
| Joseph who was the subject of the 2012 biographical play "The Columnist" | 82 |
| Joseph Wapner: "Who won the 1984 Best Actress Oscar?" Bailiff: "___" | 88 |
| Joni Mitchell song with the lyric "She was swallowed by the sky" | 74 |
| Jon ___, at 6'11" the tallest player in Major League Baseball history | 78 |
| Jokey alternative spelling for "fish" widely attributed to George Bernard Shaw | 88 |
| Johnson who said "Verrrry interesting" on "Laugh-In" | 72 |
| Johnny Mercer jazz standard with the lyric "My heart is riding on your wings" | 87 |
| Johnny Carson's co-writer of his "Tonight Show" theme song | 72 |
| John Zorn's avant jazz outfit named after an early ABC police drama series | 78 |
| John who wrote "She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd" | 75 |
| John who was the first U.S. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" top winner | 80 |
| John Watson's portrayer opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes | 76 |
| John Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the movie version of this musical | 74 |
| John Travolta film reject about a Detroit gridder embarrassed by weight loss? | 77 |
| John Travolta film reject about "The Lord of the Rings" author? | 73 |
| John Quincy Adams, as U.S. secretary of state, was the man who actually drafted ... | 83 |
| John Mason ___, English priest who wrote "Good King Wenceslas" | 72 |
| John Lennon song with the refrain "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 79 |
| John Lennon song that ends "I love you, yeah, yeah, now and forever" | 78 |
| John David Sweeney, Jr. was issued the first one (FWIW it was 055-09-0001) | 74 |
| John Cho's co-star in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" | 83 |
| Joe DiMaggio's "I'll finally get to see Marilyn," e.g. | 72 |
| Job, figuratively, and what's inside each of this puzzle's four longest entries | 87 |
| Job that may have you dressing ahead for the winter while shooting in the summer | 80 |
| Job for which the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner said Sarah Palin was picked for "reasons of image, not substance" | 120 |
| Jimmy Buffett "___ to the right, and you're the only bait in town" | 80 |
| Jimi Hendrix song with the lyric "Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?" | 92 |
| Jets legend who drunkenly hit on ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber during a live TV interview | 94 |
| Jerome who played Miles Archer, Sam's ill-fated partner, in "The Maltese Falcon" | 94 |
| Jennifer who got the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist | 72 |
| Jennifer Aniston's weekend in bed with her pop-star boyfriend John, cut short? | 82 |
| Jedi master who said, "Happens to every guy sometimes this does" | 74 |
| Jazz's George with the triple platinum album "Breezin'" | 73 |
| Jazz standard whose title is repeatedly sung after "Honey ..." | 72 |
| Jazz standard that begins "You ain't been blue; no, no, no" | 73 |
| Jazz singer and pianist who sang "Figure Eight" on "Schoolhouse Rock" (1924-2009) | 101 |
| Jazz musician from either Saturn or Alabama, depending on whom you believe | 74 |
| Jazz legend who turned the Benny Goodman Trio into the Benny Goodman Quartet | 76 |
| Jazz legend who recorded "Porgy & Bess" as a duet album with Ray Charles | 86 |
| Jay who said "You're not famous until my mother has heard of you" | 79 |
| Japanese horror film series about a cursed videotape that inspired a similarly-titled American remake | 101 |
| Japanese city with the world's largest train station (in floor area) | 72 |
| Japanese breed of dog that figured in O.J.'s "Trial of the Century" | 81 |
| Janis who was the first musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" | 72 |
| Jan ___, South African leader instrumental in establishing the League of Nations | 80 |
| James with the ironically titled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" | 73 |
| James whose company published the first U.S. edition of "The Prince and the Pauper" | 93 |
| James who originated the phrase "Taxation without representation" | 75 |
| James who coined the phrase "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 82 |
| James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography ___ Ex-Colored Man" | 75 |
| James Hilton novel that's the source of the term "Shangri-La" | 75 |
| Jacqueline Susann novel, and the problem with some of the answers in this puzzle | 80 |
| Jack who quipped "A funny thing happened to my mother one day: Me" | 76 |
| J. J. ___, co-creator of "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" | 90 |
| J. Geils: "You're Gettin' ___ While I'm Gettin' Odd" | 78 |
| IX ^ (I/II) ...is there a Roman numeral for one-half that I'm not aware of? | 79 |
| Its women's basketball team holds the consecutive victories record(abbr.) | 77 |
| Its unique bites are referred to as "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" | 76 |
| Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra | 92 |
| Its second-ever video was for Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" | 74 |
| Its royal badge features the motto "Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad" | 73 |
| Its ratification was one of the goals of the women's suffrage movement | 74 |
| Its opening voice-over ended "to boldly go where no man has gone before" | 82 |
| Its national anthem begins "Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun" | 82 |
| Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil" | 86 |
| Its name comes from a Native American word meaning "land of the trembling earth" | 90 |
| Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 79 |
| Its motto is "Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam" ("The wise heart seeks knowledge") | 104 |
| Its ingredients may include cocoa, confectioners' sugar, and vanillin | 73 |
| Its flag states "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 82 |
| Its flag consists of a crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white background: Abbr. | 82 |
| Its first tweet was "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet" | 92 |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 85 |
| Its first issue featured Sugar Ray Robinson's wife Edna on the cover | 72 |
| Its episode titles have included "Got Murder?" and "You Kill Me" | 84 |