| About 2.6 times the square of the length of one side, for a regular hexagon | 75 |
| Abbr. signaling that the subject line contains the full content of an e-mail | 76 |
| Abbr. for windsurfer Gal Fridman, who recently became his country's first Olympic gold medalist | 99 |
| A: You have 24 hours to arrange payment. T: (to himself) Looks like we'll be a __ (Paul McCartney & Wings) | 114 |
| A2: "Say, what's the 'sensitive document' our guy grabbed?" A1: "A ___, of course." A2: "Ah! Figures." | 146 |
| A1: "... for ___ a sensitive document from the Something-or-other Embassy in Copenhagen." | 99 |
| A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" | 135 |
| A. God of war B. Goddess of the earth C. God of love D.Ruler of the gods | 72 |
| A. Egg and matzo meal B. Tomatoes and cheese C. Corn or barley D. Chickpeas or beans | 84 |
| A. "Mommie Dearest" B. "Lonesome Dove" C. "Angela's Ashes" D. "Times to Remember" | 125 |
| A. "Les Troyens" B. "Pelléas et Melisande" C. "La Mer" D. "Faust" | 108 |
| A-list screenwriter (and crossword fan) who won an Oscar for "Schindler's List," Steven ___ | 105 |
| A's hurler (1989 champs) / Eurythmics musician on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (#1 in 1983) | 110 |
| A U.S. president who was also an architect, musician and inventor was ... | 73 |
| A synonym for it can be found inside this puzzle's four longest entries | 75 |
| A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming | 82 |
| A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard | 99 |
| A scarab beetle with a heart-shaped mark on its wing covers was named after this adventurer | 91 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| A good band pic on the CD, songs that will appeal to music producers, etc.? | 75 |
| A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" | 122 |
| A famous one begins "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" | 76 |
| A fake "RIP" tweet about him (after the VMA broadcast) made PopEater.com's "Best Celebrity Twitter Stories of 2009" | 139 |
| A different one is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 76 |
| A clip of his "Inside Edition" meltdown made Huffington Post's #1 spot on "YouTube's Best of 2008: Top Ten" | 135 |
| A Bond baddie had them in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" | 84 |
| A "Star Trek" officer and a physician are going to board a plane? | 75 |
| A "career associate scanning professional" used to be called a ___ | 76 |
| 97-year-old entertainment personality who wrote "Old Age is Not for Sissies" | 86 |
| 90's group with the hit "Killing Me Softly," with "the" | 79 |
| 9/15/63 site of the only concert including both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones | 82 |
| 79, for the chem. symbol at the heart of the four longest puzzle answers | 72 |
| 63-year-old Vera reportedly dating 27-year-old skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek | 81 |
| 54 51 32 4 35 18 / 14 5 52 / 59 / 28 1 22 / 44 3 6 16 20 60 61 12 (see notepad) | 127 |
| 43 57 45 7 37 / 33 / 36 30 40 47 10 / 26 53 62 21 / 31 34 56 48 2 8 (see notepad) | 129 |
| 38 17 25 / 50 27 55 42 63 41 49 46 24 / 23 58 13 / 9 11 29 15 39 19 (see notepad) | 127 |
| 31st best film of all time, according to AFI's tenth anniversary edition (with "The") | 99 |
| 311 "You're cruisin', don't ___ care about what you're losing" | 88 |
| 30 ... (when completed, a Hitchcock movie)(with ''The'') | 72 |
| 22-year-old Stanford graduate who became a pro golfer more than six years ago | 77 |
| 20th-century cartoonist who wrote "He Done Her Wrong," a 300-page pantomime tale | 90 |
| 2014 Robin Thicke concept album (if "maybe stalking can win my wife back?" is a concept) | 98 |
| 2014 NBC comedy starring David Walton ... and a hint to the puzzle theme which is ___ | 85 |
| 2013 Eminem hit featuring Rihanna (and inspiration for this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| 2012 Paula Broadwell biography subtitled "The Education of General David Petraeus" | 92 |
| 2012 movie with the tagline "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Vengeance" | 82 |
| 2012 film in which Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant each play six roles | 76 |
| 2012 Best Actress nominee alongside Jessica, Jennifer, Emmanuelle, and Naomi | 76 |
| 2011 Record of the Year nominee whose name roughly translates to "good winter" | 88 |
| 2011 National League MVP who was suspended for 65 games in 2013 for violating baseball's drug code | 102 |
| 2011 headline in music news (I know one of them quit years ago; sue me for preferring the classic lineup) | 105 |
| 2011 film in which Owen Wilson says, "Wonderful but forgettable. That sounds like a picture I've seen. I probably wrote it." | 138 |
| 2011 comedy starring Cameron Diaz as a gold-digging, pot-smoking educator | 73 |
| 2010 movie Roger Ebert called "an incomprehensible mess with the 1980s TV show embedded inside," with "The" | 127 |
| 2010 #1 hit by Ke$ha (the 17th song in Billboard history to debut at the top spot) | 82 |
| 2009 film for which Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for playing a crossword puzzle writer | 85 |
| 2009 comedy whose tagline is "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" | 78 |
| 2008 spoof flick that got a rare 0% rating from the website Rotten Tomatoes | 75 |
| 2008 horror movie, or the sound from across the theater that kept breaking my concentration? | 92 |
| 2008 bailed-out insurance co. that paid $165M in bonuses to its executives in 2009 | 82 |
| 2006 title film character who says "Pamela! I no find you attractive anymore! ... Not!" | 97 |
| 2006 movie subtitled "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" | 109 |
| 2006 film with the tagline "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fright" | 76 |
| 2006 Disney film, and the ends of the eight longest entries in this puzzle | 74 |
| 2005 World Series player (his team's only appearance, and they lost) | 72 |
| 2005 James Franco film with the tagline "With a roommate like this...you'd be crazy too" | 102 |
| 2005 horror sequel with the tagline "Oh yes ... there will be blood" | 78 |
| 2005 Black Eyed Peas hit that Pitchfork called "so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of 'song.'" | 169 |
| 2004 horror film with the tagline "How much blood would you shed to stay alive?" | 90 |
| 2003 what-if mockumentary about the aftermath of the South's Civil War victory | 82 |
| 2003 sci-fi disaster film featuring a subterranean team of "terranauts" | 81 |
| 2003 Penn/Watts drama with "The weight of a hummingbird" in one of its taglines | 89 |
| 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a hermaphrodite | 73 |
| 2003 film with the tagline "Free Your Mind," with "The" | 75 |
| 2003 film with the tagline "Everything sounds sexier in French" | 73 |
| 2003 film with the tag line "He's very naughty ... and not very nice" | 83 |
| 2003 film title character who's supposed to be Darla's eighth birthday present | 86 |
| 2003 film starring Julia Roberts as an art professor at Wellesley College | 73 |
| 2003 ALCS hero Aaron, or his brother Bret who guest-announced the series | 72 |
| 2003 Afghani film that won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film | 72 |
| 2003 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for "Adaptation" | 78 |
| 2002 animated film with a 2006 sequel subtitled "The Meltdown" | 72 |
| 2002 A.L. Rookie of the Year Hinske who struck out to end the 2008 World Series | 79 |
| 2001-'08 White House Deputy Chief of Staff whose middle name is Whitehouse | 78 |
| 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" or 2010's "The Karate Kid" | 82 |
| 2001 OutKast chart-topper whose title refers to Erykah Badu's mother | 72 |
| 2000 Eugene Levy film with the tagline "Some pets deserve a little more respect than others" | 102 |
| 1999 film with the tagline "Fame. Be careful. It's out there" | 75 |
| 1999 film in which author John Irving plays a stationmaster, with "The" | 81 |
| 1999 #1 hit that introduced the "Cher-bot" vocal recording technique | 78 |
| 1998 movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 82 |
| 1998 movie with the quote "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" | 74 |
| 1998 animated film released the month before "A Bug's Life" | 73 |
| 1997 sci-fi film with the tagline "There is no gene for the human spirit" | 83 |
| 1997 movie with the line "It was the most erotic moment of my life" | 77 |
| 1997 Kevin Kline film, and a hint to the puzzle theme hidden in four answers | 76 |
| 1997 Jennifer Jason Leigh adaptation of a Henry James novel--refilmed in 3-D? | 77 |
| 1997 horror film with the tagline "If you can't breathe, you can't scream" | 92 |
| 1997 Demi Moore movie with the tagline "Failure is not an option" | 75 |
| 1997 best-seller with the subtitle "A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster" | 93 |