| Words before "though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful" | 75 |
| Words before "to be born" and "to die" in Ecclesiastes | 74 |
| Words before and after "my lads" in the United States Merchant Marine anthem | 86 |
| Words between ''Would you'' and ''dance'' | 73 |
| Words drawn out before "... will always love you" in a 1992 Whitney Houston cover | 91 |
| Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) | 89 |
| Words in "The Little Mermaid" after "The human world ..." | 77 |
| Words made more broadly applicable by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor | 98 |
| Words of encouragement that may be heard at a Weight Watchers meeting, part 1 | 77 |
| Words of reproach, and a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers are formed | 79 |
| Words on cakes in "Alice in Wonderland" and "Animal House" | 78 |
| Words preceding "Love," "War" and "the Deal" in book titles | 89 |
| Words repeated after "I shall no more," in "The Tempest" | 76 |
| Words repeated by Samuel L. Jackson in the diner scene from "Pulp Fiction" | 84 |
| Words spoken after Polonius says, "I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord" | 92 |
| Words that can precede both parts of this puzzle's six longest answers | 74 |
| Words that can precede, in order, the three words in each starred answer | 72 |
| Words that fill both blanks in the 1990 Almadovar film "___ Up, ___ Down" | 83 |
| Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created | 88 |
| Words with ''a pistol'' or ''a firecracker'' | 76 |
| Words with ''a sudden'' or ''the above'' | 72 |
| Words with ''crossroads'' or ''dead end'' | 73 |
| Words with ''distance'' or ''disadvantage'' | 75 |
| Words with ''even keel'' or ''empty stomach'' | 77 |
| Words with ''good faith'' or ''self-defense'' | 77 |
| Words with ''high standard'' or ''good example'' | 80 |
| Words with ''I'm told'' or ''I thought'' | 76 |
| Words with ''impasse'' or ''all-time high'' | 75 |
| Words with ''lay it'' or ''the joke's'' | 75 |
| Words with ''pedestal'' or ''happy face'' | 73 |
| Words with ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 76 |
| Words with ''remember'' or ''celebrate'' | 72 |
| Words with ''standstill'' or ''distance'' | 73 |
| Words with ''step'' or ''I'll get right'' | 77 |
| Words with ''the kill'' or ''the buzzer'' | 73 |
| Words with ''the minute'' or ''no good'' | 72 |
| Words with ''there'' and ''the balance'' | 72 |
| Words with ''world record'' or ''precedent'' | 76 |
| Wordsmith who wrote "Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague" | 84 |
| Work that begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." | 76 |
| Work unit that appears far less often in crosswords than "erg" | 72 |
| Workweek start, or an apt title for this puzzle based on an abbreviation found in its five longest answers | 106 |
| World leader who co-wrote the book "How Far We Slaves Have Come!" with Mandela | 88 |
| World leader who was the first living person awarded honorary Canadian citizenship | 82 |
| Worst team's privilege in next year's draft or, with a comma, "premium" | 89 |
| Wrap right over left, tuck right underneath, pull, pinch right in a loop, wrap left around, push left through hole to create loop, pull loops | 141 |
| Wright who quipped "What's another word for 'thesaurus'?" | 79 |
| Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? | 78 |
| Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" | 73 |
| Writer of "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another" | 107 |
| Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" | 86 |
| Writer of the song "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" | 79 |
| Writer on whose work Woody Allen's "Sleeper" is loosely based | 75 |
| Writer who Ali G. mistook for Clinton's vice president in an interview | 74 |
| Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" | 80 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" | 84 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" | 84 |
| Wu-Tang Clan "Da Mystery of Chessboxin" lyric "You scream as it ___ your bloodstream" | 105 |
| Wu-Tang Clan member who released the classic album "Liquid Swords," 1995 | 82 |