| Figs. that always seem to get pushed back when you're in a rush at the airport | 82 |
| Film character who says "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" | 76 |
| Film character who says "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" | 77 |
| Film character who says "I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it" | 96 |
| Film character who says "I promise teach karate. That my part. You promise learn" | 91 |
| Film character who says "Named must your fear be before banish it you can" | 84 |
| Film character who says "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake" | 78 |
| Film in which a stampede of African animals destroys a New Hampshire home | 73 |
| Film in which Agnes Moorehead debuted as the title character's mother | 73 |
| Film in which Marv says, "He's only a kid, Harry. We can take him." | 81 |
| Film in which Mia Farrow plays the psychiatrist of Woody Allen's character | 78 |
| Film in which the title character says "I don't permit the suffering—you do" | 94 |
| Film score composer Dimitri with twenty-six Oscar nominations and four wins | 75 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| Film that lost out to "The Silence of the Lambs" for Best Picture | 75 |
| Film villain who sings "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do!" | 73 |
| Film which featured Julianne Moore in a role once played by Jodie Foster | 72 |
| Film with the classic line "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." | 76 |
| Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" | 139 |
| Film with the line "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" | 80 |
| Film with the tagline "Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke" | 77 |
| Film with the tagline "TV the way it was meant to be seen: in a movie theatre" | 88 |
| Filter "Awake on my airplane, my skin is bare, my skin is ___" | 72 |
| Final (and a word that can precede the first word of this puzzle's longest answers) | 87 |
| Final attempt to hook up among college students ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 88 |
| Finally fixing up the boat or spending more time with the grandkids, say: Abbr. | 79 |
| Find new work - or what you must do to get the three theme entries' names in this puzzle | 92 |
| Finding from the "fifths" taken from this puzzle's theme answers | 78 |
| Finnish pentathlete Lehtonen who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 1920s | 82 |
| Fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail | 90 |
| Firefighter Red, inspiration for John Wayne's "Hellfighters" | 74 |
| First actress to play Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 77 |
| First American independent movie to get a Best Original Screenplay nomination | 77 |
| First and only fictional group to have a #1 hit song, with "The" | 74 |
| First baseman Mientkiewicz who caught the final out of the 2004 Boston World Series victory | 91 |
| First British group since the Beatles to have two albums in the U.S. top 10 at the same time | 92 |
| First celebrity to use his likeness on a video game (albeit his was a primitive square) | 87 |
| First female singer to have three different singles in Billboard's Top 10 at one time | 89 |
| First female skater to land a triple/triple jump combination in competition | 75 |
| First First Lady to announce the Best Picture winner at an Academy Awards ceremony | 82 |
| First golfer to win the U.S., British and Canadian Opens in the same year | 73 |
| First hockey player to win Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year | 73 |
| First Latin American country to nationally legalize same-sex civil unions | 73 |
| First Mayflower passenger to set foot on Plymouth Rock, so it's said | 72 |
| First name associated with Christmas, from the Hebrew for "rock of help" | 82 |
| First name invented by Jonathan Swift for his paramour, immortalized in his poem "Cadenus and ___" | 108 |
| First name of a civil rights activist who would turn 85 today, and whose adopted last name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 127 |
| First name of a former president ... or, read another way, what each of the circled lines is | 92 |
| First name of Professor Brainard in "The Absent Minded Professor" | 75 |
| First name of the Cardinal who made a "mad dash" from first to home in the bottom of the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1946 World Series | 147 |
| First name of the only person in the Inventors and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame | 78 |
| First name of the only two-time Super Bowl MVP who, both times, beat another two-time Super Bowl MVP | 100 |
| First NHL player to win the Art Ross Trophy, Maurice Richard Trophy, Lester B. Pearson Award, and Hart Memorial Trophy in a single season | 137 |
| First of 12 popes (just put the Roman numeral in now and get the name from the crossings) | 89 |
| First of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 79 |
| First of three Mets to hit a lead-off home run in a World Series Game 3 (he did it in '69, Garrett in '73, and Dykstra in '86) | 138 |
| First part of an erroneous "Christian Science Monitor" headline published on April 15, 1912 | 101 |
| First person inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach | 81 |
| First person to win a Smarties Prize, for children's books, three years in a row | 84 |
| First player to hit an inside-the-park home run during an All-Star Game, 2007 | 77 |
| First player whose HR was reviewed (and upheld) by umpires using instant replay | 79 |
| First professional musician to become Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Center | 77 |
| First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | 86 |
| First tennis player to simultaneously hold Grand Slams on clay, grass and hardcourt | 83 |
| First tennis player to win more than a million dollars in a single season | 73 |
| First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f | 204 |
| First words of the title of Sue Grafton's as-yet-unwritten 24th Kinsey Millhone mystery | 91 |
| First-century governor of Britain, whose name was Latin for "farmer" | 78 |
| Fish dish served with lemon and pepper, simmered in pretty hate and dissonant synthesizer lines? | 96 |
| Fish in "Finding Nemo" who thinks her reflection is her sister Flo | 76 |
| Fish in Guy Fieri's unfortunate "Tex Wasabi's Fish Tacos" | 75 |
| Fisher who plays "Mytle Wilson" in 2013's "The Great Gatsby" | 84 |
| Five-time teammate of Bryant, Duncan, and Nowitzki at the NBA All-Star Game | 75 |
| Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle | 84 |
| Flagmaker Ross (and, starting on the T, an 11-word quote that "runs" diagonally through the grid) | 107 |
| Flamboyant '40s men's outfit with baggy pants and padded shoulders | 74 |
| Flattering courtier who changed places with the tyrant Dionysius, in Greek legend | 81 |
| Flight from Israel [SEE NOTE ABOVE for explanation of last week's answers] | 78 |
| Flight-ending words from the captain of the "Miracle on the Hudson" | 77 |
| Floors [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday crossword gift!] | 75 |
| Florida city that was once home to the world's largest Shuffleboard club | 76 |
| Flower mentioned initially by character on TV's "Entourage" (8) | 77 |
| Flower whose name is derived from the Turkish/Persian for "turban" | 76 |
| Flowers that materialize above Magrathea, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" | 97 |
| Flying by the bookstore, you were caught doing "One Hundred ___" in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" zone... | 120 |
| Folk art pieces that are the subject of a museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland | 76 |
| Follower of Brink, Carnation, Pig, Shocking, and Tickle Me in Crayola color names | 81 |
| Food brand that was the sole sponsor of the first "60 Minutes" broadcast | 82 |
| Food that "did fall on the Israelites most gently, vexing those burdened with meathead pride" (Exodus 17:17)? | 119 |
| Foodie who's the "Lady" of the Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah | 83 |
| Football coach Bill Parcells's nickname (not a standard sushi option) | 73 |
| Football coach who said, "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" | 109 |
| Football formation in which the quarterback doesn't receive the snap | 72 |
| Football Hall of Famer Carl who was a member of the Vikings' Purple People Eaters defensive line | 100 |
| Football Hall-of-Famer Ronnie, playing an extra in "Lord of the Rings"? | 81 |
| Football legend who was the first non-referee to do the Super Bowl coin toss | 76 |
| Football player-turned politician whose autobiography is titled "What Color Is a Conservative?" | 105 |
| Football tackle Warren who competed on "Dancing With the Stars" | 73 |
| Football target, in a lot of "America's Funniest Home Videos" submissions | 87 |
| Football team involved in a notorious 2005 "love boat" scandal | 72 |