| What the Baseball Hall of Fame is considering lifting a lifetime ban for? | 73 |
| What the "turn on" part refers to in "Tune in, turn on, drop out" | 85 |
| What the "arrant thief" of a moon "snatches from the sun," in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" | 127 |
| What swing state viewers might experience as the presidential election draws closer, punnily, or a possible title for this week's puzzle? | 141 |
| What Soul Asylum's phone won't do in "Somebody to Shove" | 74 |
| What someone who has to choose between singers Courtney and Eddie makes a decision for? | 87 |
| What some astronomers did with their teeth when the remotest planet in the Solar System was demoted? | 100 |
| What Sgt. Schultz really knew (but would never admit) on "Hogan's Heroes"? | 88 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| What rating does the Michelin Guide give to "a very good restaurant"? | 79 |
| What presidential term limits mercifully ensure, and each of this puzzle's theme answers "receives" | 113 |
| What Pink didn't want her man to do on the "Funhouse" album | 73 |
| What people in relationships need together ... or this puzzle's title | 73 |
| What one of the hypocycloids in the Pittsburgh Steelers' logo represents | 76 |
| What one gets by multiplying the numbers in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| What one can do, figuratively, to the last words of the four longest Across answers | 83 |
| What one achieves by smashing one's malfunctioning smartphone against a branch? | 83 |
| What nerve, disrupting a carpenter's joint with that kind of hat (3-6) | 74 |
| What might have the heading "Collectibles" or "Toys & Hobbies"? | 87 |
| What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore? | 86 |
| What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" | 73 |
| What many sports cars lack, and, in a way, what the ends of the starred answers are | 83 |
| What King Arthur's men would like to have seen more of along the way? | 73 |
| What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series | 78 |
| What it takes not to say "I see you've put on a little weight" | 76 |
| What it may take to answer the question "Does this make me look fat?" | 79 |
| What it may take to answer "Do you think I need to lose some weight?" | 79 |
| What I wished for, but couldn't write correctly due to heavy turbulence | 75 |
| What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me | 94 |
| What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? | 94 |
| What Fido's recently purchased tether gave him (with "a")? | 72 |
| What each of today's four long answers is vis-Ã -vis New Year's Eve | 77 |
| What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for | 72 |
| What Depp did, over and over, to acquire the auction item he so badly wanted? | 77 |
| What Crystal Harris became famous for doing in 2011, and a hint to the theme | 76 |
| What computers repeat out loud while shooting sparks, in old sci-fi movies | 74 |
| What Commissioner Gordon is always findin' at Gotham City crime scenes? | 75 |
| What can be said about the answers to this puzzle's capitalized clues | 73 |
| What bottles of "Pluto Water," a drink sold in the early 1900s, were supposed to be used as | 101 |
| What best-selling 2004 young adult novel was written entirely in the form of instant messages? | 94 |
| What Attila reputedly demanded 3,000 pounds of as a ransom for the city of Rome | 79 |
| What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit | 101 |
| What a two-letter Romance-language translation of "the" might be | 74 |
| What a dieter who was planning to order either a soup or salad might pack for lunch? | 84 |
| What a cadet won't do (or tolerate those who do), per the West Point honor code | 83 |
| What 16th-17th century countess Elizabeth Bathory reputedly bathed in to stay younger | 85 |
| What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney | 74 |
| What "they say our love won't pay," in "I Got You Babe" | 79 |
| What "the lowing herd wind slowly o'er" in a Thomas Gray poem | 75 |
| What "Saturday Night Live" players are not ready for, supposedly | 74 |
| What "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" has a lot of | 74 |
| What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain | 108 |
| Whaleship that's the subject of the book "In the Heart of the Sea" | 80 |
| Whacked "Godfather" character Greene who was shot in the right eye through his glasses | 96 |
| West with the autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" | 74 |
| West Indian language that gave us the words "hammock" and "cassava" | 87 |
| West Coast burger chain advertised by a writhing Paris Hilton washing a car | 75 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Weird Al hit with the lyric "I don't care if you're full" | 75 |
| Weight-loss candy of the '70s and '80s that couldn't overcome its unfortunate homophone | 99 |
| Weight-conscious rapper, or what the singer of "American Pie" eats? | 77 |
| Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Wednesday: Iggy uses stun gun during football team interview, attempting to be a ... | 84 |
| Website with a focus on step-by-step instructions to "just about everything" | 86 |
| Website whose logo's letters are (in order) red, blue, yellow and green | 75 |
| Webby Award winner who accepted saying "Please don't recount this vote" | 85 |
| Web site with the headings "Toys & Hobbies" and "Music" | 79 |
| Web concerns ... and based on six familiar names hidden in rows 1, 4, 12 and 15 of this puzzle grid, what the black squares in those rows symbolize | 147 |
| Weather comment represented visually by this puzzle's circled letters | 73 |
| Weather Channel feature (it's the puzzle theme found in a quintet of answers) | 81 |
| We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!] | 119 |
| We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago | 95 |
| Wavy tonal quality overdone by a lot of "American Idol" hopefuls | 74 |
| Water-bowl user (or the start of a film and TV actor's split personality) | 77 |
| Washington newspaper that ended its printed version in March 2009, for short | 76 |
| Washed-up-but-still-nominally-entertaining "Dogg After Dark" host, casually | 85 |
| Wart-covered and hungry for flies or, alternately, have a meeting about one of Jon's pets? | 94 |
| Warning sign at a train station's food court? (NOTE: The original sign, without my additions, actually exists. It's in Grand Central Terminal in NYC, on the lower level — the food court level. The sig | 215 |
| Warning label on consumer products that one might be tempted to chew on, say | 76 |
| Warning from the critters that appear to be slithering through the grid? | 72 |
| Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle | 89 |
| Wanda and Darryl's firstborn in the comic strip "Baby Blues" | 74 |
| Walter who wrote "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" | 75 |
| Waitress: "What'll ya have, Rocky?" Rocky: "Let's see ... some diced ___ ..." | 105 |
| Waitress: "In other words, the One-Two ___. Comin' right up." | 75 |
| Waistcoat-wearing lagomorph in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 79 |
| Vulture, e.g. (hey, they started running metas by Matt Gaffney; you should do them) | 83 |
| Vujacic of the Los Angeles Lakers, who's nicknamed "The Machine" | 78 |
| Voicings of simultaneously-sounded groups of musical notes in which the root note is not in the bass part | 105 |
| Vocally versatile, cruciverbally useful singer Yma who would have turned eighty-seven this week | 95 |
| Vocalist who gave his farewell performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin | 79 |
| Visual representation of an item associated with the answers to the asterisked clues in this puzzle | 99 |
| Visit to one's parents, even though you could've gone somewhere fun instead? | 84 |
| Vision-distorting condition caused by a few too many cold ones, slangily | 72 |
| Virginian statesman George nicknamed "The Father of the Bill of Rights" | 81 |
| Virginia tourist attraction that gives out $2 bills as change in its gift shop | 78 |
| Viral video about an excited hiker after a rainstorm that's represented three times in this grid | 100 |
| Violet variety (and the longest common word that uses just the right typing hand) | 81 |
| Violet Beauregarde is transformed into one in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" | 91 |
| Villain who says "That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a pity to break it" | 94 |