| Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" | 86 |
| When Alfred Eisenstaedt shot his famous Times Square photo of a sailor kissing a nurse | 86 |
| When Jaques says, "All the world's a stage" in "As You Like It" | 87 |
| When the witches in "Macbeth" say "Double, double toil and trouble" | 87 |
| Wordplay expert Jon who wrote the spoonerism book "Smart Feller Fart Smeller" | 87 |
| Word with ''when,'' ''what'' or ''who'' | 87 |
| Word with ''doll,'' ''clip'' or ''bag'' | 87 |
| Word with ''aside,'' ''down'' or ''on'' | 87 |
| What's taken by someone visiting a person who recants on the other side of a river? | 87 |
| What might have the heading "Collectibles" or "Toys & Hobbies"? | 87 |
| What someone who has to choose between singers Courtney and Eddie makes a decision for? | 87 |
| Where "Ice Ice Baby" appeared on the "Play That Funky Music" single | 87 |
| West Indian language that gave us the words "hammock" and "cassava" | 87 |
| With "The," NBC drama inspired by the film "The American President" | 87 |
| World leader who co-wrote the book "How Far We Slaves Have Come!" with Mandela | 88 |
| Who said "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers" | 88 |
| Word with ''black,'' ''red'' or ''pink'' | 88 |
| Whenever it comes, "you can find me cryin' all of the time," in a 1966 hit | 88 |
| What you need in order to be sure you'll have something to put your cream cheese on? | 88 |
| Wherefrom visiting speaker Elmer Fudd bellowed "Pway faw a miwacoo, wabbits!"? | 88 |
| What Sgt. Schultz really knew (but would never admit) on "Hogan's Heroes"? | 88 |
| White Queen's response to "I can't remember things before they happen" | 88 |
| With "The," TV series whose relationships were mapped by "The Chart" | 88 |
| Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created | 88 |
| With “The,” 1929 William Faulkner novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| What Tyra Banks's competition winner is expected to become, per the show's title | 88 |
| With “The,” 1973 Alistair MacLean novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| Words preceding "Love," "War" and "the Deal" in book titles | 89 |
| Who quipped "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way" | 89 |
| What Van Halen's "hot shoe" would do down the avenue, in "Panama" | 89 |
| Word with ''boat,'' ''fire'' or ''smith'' | 89 |
| Winfrey who said "I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes" | 89 |
| Word that can be inserted in "mound" to make a synonym for "stagnant" | 89 |
| What the disappointed fan said after Rome's first emperor sang "Yesterday"? | 89 |
| With "The," 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama featuring the "Brat Pack" | 89 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like "The Man in Black"? | 89 |
| Worst team's privilege in next year's draft or, with a comma, "premium" | 89 |
| Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) | 89 |
| Word with ''forward,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 89 |
| Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
| Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle | 89 |
| Wine that can't decide what it is (from a stand-up comedian and a fictional newsman)? | 89 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| Word with ''blue,'' ''green'' or ''brown'' | 90 |
| Whom Goldwater called "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life" | 90 |
| Words after ''see,'' ''hear'' or ''speak'' | 90 |
| When most top-rated shows are on, and a hint to the kind of numbers in the starred answers | 90 |
| What the pool player started "playing" when his favorite song came on the radio? | 90 |
| What the self-contradictory words found in this puzzle's theme answers are examples of | 90 |
| Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" | 90 |
| Words drawn out before "... will always love you" in a 1992 Whitney Houston cover | 91 |
| Word that shouldn't precede ''estimate'' or ''replica'' | 91 |
| What the start of each starred answer is part of, for a company that intersects that answer | 91 |
| Wheat "I ___ a girl I'd like to know better but I'm already with someone" | 91 |
| Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" | 91 |
| When a player doesn't score for a while, or when a player doesn't score for a while | 91 |
| Word rhymed with "yacht" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain" | 92 |
| Who said "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin" | 92 |
| Where "all the people that come and go stop and say hello," per the Beatles (1967) | 92 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like a "Star Wars" actress? | 92 |
| Who said "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual" | 92 |
| Words spoken after Polonius says, "I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord" | 92 |
| Word accompanying "Much," "Little" and "Late" in a 1978 #1 hit | 92 |
| When the line "Double, double toil and trouble" is delivered in "Macbeth" | 93 |
| Word with ''queen,'' ''oyster'' or ''flower'' | 93 |
| Who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure" | 93 |
| When a larger company buys a smaller company and incorporates its employees, in modern jargon | 93 |
| Who said "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?" | 93 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings (like this puzzle's eight theme entries) | 93 |
| When accused of being "out of uniform," what the naked private said he was wearing? | 93 |
| With "The," 1989 Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner film that starts with a card game? | 93 |
| With "The," L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded "Hot August Night" | 94 |
| What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me | 94 |
| Word fragment repeated multiple times by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 94 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like a "City Slickers" actor? | 94 |
| Word or phrase that has no repeated letters (every answer in this puzzle is an example of one) | 94 |
| What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol | 94 |
| What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? | 94 |
| William Cullen Bryant poem that begins "Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!" | 94 |
| Woman who said "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father" | 94 |
| Wart-covered and hungry for flies or, alternately, have a meeting about one of Jon's pets? | 94 |
| What best-selling 2004 young adult novel was written entirely in the form of instant messages? | 94 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| Word before "rain," "heat" and "gloom of night" in a postal creed | 95 |
| We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago | 95 |
| Word that could mean “become too small to see” or “similar to a family vehicle” | 95 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| Whacked "Godfather" character Greene who was shot in the right eye through his glasses | 96 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Words made more broadly applicable by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor | 98 |
| Where the ball drops on New Year's Eve ... as depicted literally in four places in this puzzle | 98 |
| Weight-loss candy of the '70s and '80s that couldn't overcome its unfortunate homophone | 99 |
| Word before "knows," "hurts," and "dance now," in various song titles | 99 |
| What your dog might do after eating his way through your linen closet, after aiming in and missing? | 99 |
| What writer Malcolm Peltu predicted could "cross a busy highway without being hit" by 2010 | 100 |
| Who, What and I Don't Know, in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine | 100 |
| Wisecrack about an actor waking up from his nap on the set of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? | 100 |
| What some astronomers did with their teeth when the remotest planet in the Solar System was demoted? | 100 |
| Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." | 101 |
| Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a 1958 #1 hit | 101 |