| Former "On Language" New York Times columnist who died on 9/27/09 | 75 |
| Floors [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday crossword gift!] | 75 |
| Five-time teammate of Bryant, Duncan, and Nowitzki at the NBA All-Star Game | 75 |
| Fictional manufacturer of disintegrating pistols and jet-propelled unicycles | 76 |
| Fish in "Finding Nemo" who thinks her reflection is her sister Flo | 76 |
| Folk art pieces that are the subject of a museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland | 76 |
| Fashion designer in "The Incredibles" voiced by director Brad Bird | 76 |
| Federal org. with a "personal greenhouse gas emissions calculator" | 76 |
| Funny Cide was the first one to win the Kentucky Derby in more than 70 years | 76 |
| French forest region that was the site of the final offensive of World War I | 76 |
| Frank Sinatra said he had "the silkiest chops in the singing game" | 76 |
| Frederick Law ___, the "father of American landscape architecture" | 76 |
| Film with the classic line "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." | 76 |
| Francis ___, 17th-century English poet who wrote “A Feast for Worms” | 76 |
| Football legend who was the first non-referee to do the Super Bowl coin toss | 76 |
| Florida city that was once home to the world's largest Shuffleboard club | 76 |
| Flower whose name is derived from the Turkish/Persian for "turban" | 76 |
| Film character who says "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" | 76 |
| Fictional character who declares "Sleep? ... I do not sleep, I die" | 77 |
| Faith whose core principles include the unity of God, religion, and humankind | 77 |
| First actress to play Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 77 |
| Film character who says "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" | 77 |
| Former kids' show title character named for the large pockets in his coat | 77 |
| Fictional character who first appeared in "The House Without a Key" | 77 |
| First American independent movie to get a Best Original Screenplay nomination | 77 |
| Freezing material that figures in Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 77 |
| First player to hit an inside-the-park home run during an All-Star Game, 2007 | 77 |
| Flight-ending words from the captain of the "Miracle on the Hudson" | 77 |
| Fictional private detective on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" | 77 |
| Form of address for a supreme ruler, after "His" or "Her" | 77 |
| Fashion collaboration of actor James and a one-named rock-'n'-roller? | 77 |
| Feeling literal, the woman with the zoo-going addiction tattooed the word ___ | 77 |
| Film with the tagline "Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke" | 77 |
| Former "Headbangers Ball" regulars with "Round and Round" | 77 |
| Flower mentioned initially by character on TV's "Entourage" (8) | 77 |
| First professional musician to become Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Center | 77 |
| Four-time winner of Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award in the 1970s | 78 |
| Former Kansas senator who said "Life is very important to Americans" | 78 |
| Flight from Israel [SEE NOTE ABOVE for explanation of last week's answers] | 78 |
| Film character who says "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake" | 78 |
| FDR moved it from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in 1940 | 78 |
| First name of the only person in the Inventors and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame | 78 |
| Frank Delano Roosevelt’s phrase “New Deal” came from a book by ... | 78 |
| First-century governor of Britain, whose name was Latin for "farmer" | 78 |
| Former teen heartthrob James Van Der ___ ("Dawson's Creek" star) | 78 |
| Fictional barbershop quartet on "The Simpsons," with "The" | 78 |
| Feature hidden in the starred answers (and suggested by the grid's center) | 78 |
| Founding member of Public Enemy known for wearing large clocks around his neck | 78 |
| Feeling literal, the guy with the dead-end fast food job tattooed the word ___ | 78 |
| Fictional school whose motto is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" | 78 |
| Finding from the "fifths" taken from this puzzle's theme answers | 78 |
| Former Lakers center who won two Olympic silver medals playing with Yugoslavia | 78 |
| Film in which Mia Farrow plays the psychiatrist of Woody Allen's character | 78 |
| First player whose HR was reviewed (and upheld) by umpires using instant replay | 79 |
| First of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 79 |
| Finally fixing up the boat or spending more time with the grandkids, say: Abbr. | 79 |
| Former New York Giants star currently in jail after shooting himself in the leg | 79 |
| Frequent panelist of "Match Game" who was one of three actress sisters | 80 |
| Fairy queen who carried a "whip of cricket's bone," in Shakespeare | 80 |
| Fictional character who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" | 80 |
| Film with the line "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" | 80 |
| Fictional supplier of rocket-powered roller skates and jet-propelled pogo sticks | 80 |
| Former Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher who played for the Yanks in the late '90s | 80 |
| Former weekly mag that still publishes an annual "Best Colleges" issue | 80 |
| Frightful-looking "Alice in Wonderland" character, with "the" | 81 |
| Film in which Marv says, "He's only a kid, Harry. We can take him." | 81 |
| Fred ___, whose sneeze was the subject of the first copyrighted movie in the U.S. | 81 |
| Follower of Brink, Carnation, Pig, Shocking, and Tickle Me in Crayola color names | 81 |
| Form of Japanese dance drama in which the performers often wear white body makeup | 81 |
| Flattering courtier who changed places with the tyrant Dionysius, in Greek legend | 81 |
| First person inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach | 81 |
| Former NFL quarterback Tim whose name became a dictionary-recognized verb in 2012 | 81 |
| Former U.S. Open champ Monica's cry upon seeing wooden rackets in her locker? | 81 |
| Football Hall-of-Famer Ronnie, playing an extra in "Lord of the Rings"? | 81 |
| Food brand that was the sole sponsor of the first "60 Minutes" broadcast | 82 |
| Fashion runway, or, in a way, what this puzzle's 10 perimeter answers comprise | 82 |
| First name associated with Christmas, from the Hebrew for "rock of help" | 82 |
| Finnish pentathlete Lehtonen who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 1920s | 82 |
| Figs. that always seem to get pushed back when you're in a rush at the airport | 82 |
| First First Lady to announce the Best Picture winner at an Academy Awards ceremony | 82 |
| Frat standard with the lyric "let's get together and feel all right" | 82 |
| Felines briefly discovered, then lost again; appropriately, they're called ... | 82 |
| Fictional pitchman whom Michael Dukakis likened to George H.W. Bush during a debate | 83 |
| Former senator for whom Georgia Tech's School of International Affairs is named | 83 |
| Fundraisers where Federer and Nadal sell Rice Krispies Treats and upside-down cake? | 83 |
| Foodie who's the "Lady" of the Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah | 83 |
| Fictional parrot type featured in Monty Python's "dead parrot sketch" | 83 |
| French prophet whose predictions are often shoehorned into describing modern events | 83 |
| First tennis player to simultaneously hold Grand Slams on clay, grass and hardcourt | 83 |
| Fastest ocean liner ever in a transatlantic crossing (3 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes) | 83 |
| Fisher who plays "Mytle Wilson" in 2013's "The Great Gatsby" | 84 |
| First person to win a Smarties Prize, for children's books, three years in a row | 84 |
| French politician ___ de Silhouette, from whom the word "silhouette" comes | 84 |
| Former L.A. Ram who holds the N.F.L. record for most receiving yards in a game (336) | 84 |
| Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle | 84 |
| Fictional board game that warns "Do not begin unless you intend to finish" | 84 |
| Former Prince percussionist/singer who had a 1984 hit "The Glamorous Life" | 84 |
| Film character who says "Named must your fear be before banish it you can" | 84 |
| For whose benefit "the quality of mercy is not strain'd" in Shakespeare | 85 |
| Former Dodgers third baseman whom Chris Berman nicknamed "Born in the U.S." | 85 |