| Where GIs fought Charlie[LAST WEEK: "Lady X" was Ingrid Bergman, whose first name is revealed in the circled squares (IN + GRID). Seven of her one-word movie titles can be seen "straddling" black squa | 220 |
| 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 |
| What the five actors in this puzzle did in "Catwoman," "Leonard, Part 6," "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery," "Gigli," and "Freddy Got Fingered," respectively | 211 |
| 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 |
| What swing state viewers might experience as the presidential election draws closer, punnily, or a possible title for this week's puzzle? | 141 |
| 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 |
| Who said "I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage" | 136 |
| What you'll see if you watch "Raging Bull" followed by "Taxi Driver" followed by "The King of Comedy"? | 136 |
| When asked "What is the meaning of life?" she sometimes answers "All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate" | 134 |
| Word used to describe a film made by The Asylum movie studio, such as "Transmorphers" or "Sunday School Musical" | 132 |
| Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" | 129 |
| What the "arrant thief" of a moon "snatches from the sun," in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" | 127 |
| Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
| What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style | 123 |
| Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
| Where Kenny's ashes are put in a "South Park" episode, after which Cartman puts them in milk and drinks them | 122 |
| With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
| What the ten movie titles in this puzzle do at their intersections -- or a 2005 movie spelled out by those intersections | 120 |
| When repeated, 1963 hit with alleged obscene lyrics determined by the FBI to be "unintelligible at any speed" | 119 |
| 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 |
| Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
| With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
| Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle | 117 |
| Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" | 115 |
| What word precedes "Eyes," "Girl," "Love" and "Mama" in Top 40 song titles? | 115 |
| Words after "here," "there" and "everywhere" in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" | 114 |
| When spelled out, word that follows the beginnings of the starred answers in a memorable kids' show theme song | 114 |
| What you might answer when asked "What's a three-letter synonym for 'tin'?" by a gentleman? | 113 |
| Whom Stephen Colbert said "looks like the kind of bold leader youÂ’d see on a box of Centrum Silver" | 113 |
| What presidential term limits mercifully ensure, and each of this puzzle's theme answers "receives" | 113 |
| Who wrote "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens" | 112 |
| When he was a bodyguard, his business card read: "Next to God, there is no greater protector than I." | 111 |
| Whom Hamlet calls "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards / Hast ta'en with equal thanks" | 109 |
| Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech | 109 |
| Word that could mean “sparsely filled with settlers” or “added a certain punctuation mark to” | 109 |
| What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain | 108 |
| When doubled, "Guys and Dolls" guy who sings "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" | 108 |
| Writer of "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another" | 107 |
| Word that could mean “before Samuel Johnson’s 1755 book” or “related to fortunetelling” | 107 |
| Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starred clue | 106 |
| With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" | 106 |
| Workweek start, or an apt title for this puzzle based on an abbreviation found in its five longest answers | 106 |
| Word before "happiness," "majesty" and "fame" at the start of a Shelley poem | 106 |
| When Kathie Lee and Hoda show up to destroy what's left of the "Today" show's reputation | 106 |
| Wu-Tang Clan "Da Mystery of Chessboxin" lyric "You scream as it ___ your bloodstream" | 105 |
| Waitress: "What'll ya have, Rocky?" Rocky: "Let's see ... some diced ___ ..." | 105 |
| What you might do if you get a dent from someone who slaps your car's hood while crossing the street? | 105 |
| With "The," inspirational bestseller that made About.com's "Top 10 Books of 2008" | 105 |
| With "The," orchestral work whose movements share the names of the starred clue/entry pairs ... | 105 |
| Who said "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall" | 104 |
| Where "you'll drink the night away and forget about everything," per Gerry Rafferty (1978) | 104 |
| What the producers of "Frida" said when they finally found someone to play her artist husband? | 104 |
| Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense | 103 |
| Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" | 102 |
| Word that could mean “force vacationers to vacate” or “one who takes alternate routes” | 102 |
| What the host of "Deal or No Deal" eats to make the gold suitcases look, like, *extra* gold? | 102 |
| Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." | 101 |
| Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a 1958 #1 hit | 101 |
| Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" | 101 |
| Where Mitt Romney built a treehouse for his former employees? (... Ã la Michael Bloomberg in 2007) | 101 |
| What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit | 101 |
| What bottles of "Pluto Water," a drink sold in the early 1900s, were supposed to be used as | 101 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like the author of "Delta of Venus"? | 101 |
| Who said "Y'know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick." | 101 |
| What to do to read the secret message (going diagonally down, then diagonally back up the under side) | 101 |
| With "The," classic novel, each of whose major characters is hiding in a row of this puzzle | 101 |
| What writer Malcolm Peltu predicted could "cross a busy highway without being hit" by 2010 | 100 |
| Who, What and I Don't Know, in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine | 100 |
| Wisecrack about an actor waking up from his nap on the set of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? | 100 |
| What some astronomers did with their teeth when the remotest planet in the Solar System was demoted? | 100 |
| Weight-loss candy of the '70s and '80s that couldn't overcome its unfortunate homophone | 99 |
| Word before "knows," "hurts," and "dance now," in various song titles | 99 |
| What your dog might do after eating his way through your linen closet, after aiming in and missing? | 99 |
| Words made more broadly applicable by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor | 98 |
| Where the ball drops on New Year's Eve ... as depicted literally in four places in this puzzle | 98 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Whacked "Godfather" character Greene who was shot in the right eye through his glasses | 96 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| Word before "rain," "heat" and "gloom of night" in a postal creed | 95 |
| We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago | 95 |
| Word that could mean “become too small to see” or “similar to a family vehicle” | 95 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| With "The," L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded "Hot August Night" | 94 |
| What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me | 94 |
| Word fragment repeated multiple times by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 94 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like a "City Slickers" actor? | 94 |
| Word or phrase that has no repeated letters (every answer in this puzzle is an example of one) | 94 |
| What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol | 94 |
| What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? | 94 |
| William Cullen Bryant poem that begins "Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!" | 94 |
| Woman who said "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father" | 94 |
| Wart-covered and hungry for flies or, alternately, have a meeting about one of Jon's pets? | 94 |
| What best-selling 2004 young adult novel was written entirely in the form of instant messages? | 94 |
| When the line "Double, double toil and trouble" is delivered in "Macbeth" | 93 |
| Word with ''queen,'' ''oyster'' or ''flower'' | 93 |
| Who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure" | 93 |
| When a larger company buys a smaller company and incorporates its employees, in modern jargon | 93 |
| Who said "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?" | 93 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings (like this puzzle's eight theme entries) | 93 |
| When accused of being "out of uniform," what the naked private said he was wearing? | 93 |