| Big financial management co. on the NYSE | 40 |
| Big financial loss | 18 |
| Big film shower | 15 |
| Big film maker | 14 |
| Big film inits. | 15 |
| Big film flop of 1987 | 21 |
| Big film festival name | 22 |
| Big figures on campus? | 22 |
| Big figure in the Koran | 23 |
| Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers | 83 |
| Big fight site | 14 |
| Big fight | 9 |
| Big fiddlers | 12 |
| Big fibs | 8 |
| Big fib | 7 |
| Big fellow in Sherwood Forest | 29 |
| Big feller? | 11 |
| Big feature of an elephant | 26 |
| Big feather | 11 |
| Big feat for baby | 17 |
| Big feast | 9 |
| Big favorite | 12 |
| Big faux pas | 12 |
| Big faucet maker | 16 |
| Big fat zero | 12 |
| Big fat mouths | 14 |
| Big fat mouth | 13 |
| Big fat lyre? | 13 |
| Big fast jet | 12 |
| Big fast freighters | 19 |
| Big fashion magazine | 20 |
| Big farewell | 12 |
| Big fans of a public prosecutor? | 32 |
| Big fans | 8 |
| Big fancy cake | 14 |
| Big fan of uprisings? | 21 |
| Big fan of Dr. Phil | 19 |
| Big fan of colorful timepieces? | 31 |
| Big fan of Captain Kirk and his crew | 36 |
| Big fan of "Gilligan's Island"? | 45 |
| Big fan | 7 |
| Big family, humorously | 22 |
| Big family name in baseball | 27 |
| Big family event | 16 |
| Big family | 10 |
| Big families | 12 |
| Big fairy | 9 |
| Big fairs | 9 |
| Big fair, for short | 19 |
| Big fair, briefly | 17 |
| Big fair | 8 |
| Big failure | 11 |
| Big fads | 8 |
| Big eyes, metaphorically | 24 |
| Big exporter of mangoes | 23 |
| Big exporter of diamonds: Abbr. | 31 |
| Big exporter of coconut cream and coconut oil | 45 |
| Big export from Sri Lanka | 25 |
| Big explosions | 14 |
| Big expense in today's filmmaking | 37 |
| Big expense for truckers | 24 |
| Big expense for newspapers | 26 |
| Big expense for an employer | 27 |
| Big expanse | 11 |
| Big execs | 9 |
| Big exams | 9 |
| Big exam for attys. | 19 |
| Big exam | 8 |
| Big events in the corporate world | 33 |
| Big event venue | 15 |
| Big event sites | 15 |
| Big event in June | 17 |
| Big event in '69 | 20 |
| Big event for florists | 22 |
| Big event for a baby | 20 |
| Big event | 9 |
| Big European smoker | 19 |
| Big estates, slangily | 21 |
| Big estate concern | 18 |
| Big envelopes | 13 |
| Big entertainment center | 24 |
| Big enough for two | 18 |
| Big enough fish, maybe | 22 |
| Big enough fish for an angler | 29 |
| Big enough fish | 15 |
| Big English clock | 17 |
| Big English bell | 16 |
| Big engineering project | 23 |
| Big engine sound | 16 |
| Big engine part? | 16 |
| Big energy supplier | 19 |
| Big endings | 11 |
| Big enchilada | 13 |
| Big employer of inspectors: Abbr. | 33 |
| Big employer in Moline, Ill. | 28 |
| Big employer in Hartford, Conn. | 31 |
| Big embrace | 11 |
| Big elevator producer | 21 |
| Big elevator name | 17 |
| Big elevator manufacturer | 25 |