| Extricates from a sticky situation, with "out" | 56 |
| Extricate from a financial predicament, with "out" | 60 |
| Extreme worry that the price of stamps will keep rising? | 56 |
| Extreme "___ (Don't Wanna Go to School Today)" | 60 |
| Extraterrestrial factor in creating much of Earth's carbon-14 | 65 |
| Extras in the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 58 |
| Extracurricular group that likely includes few jocks | 52 |
| Extinct carnivore whose name means "different lizard" | 63 |
| Exterminator, or what an insect says when it sees one | 53 |
| Exterminate the bugs in Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.'s office? | 60 |
| Extended Director's Cut Special Edition Gift Set purchasers | 63 |
| Extend, as cell phone service outside its coverage area | 55 |
| Expressions of regret from apartment building managers? | 55 |
| Expressionist painter of "Grosse Sonnenblumen" | 56 |
| Expressed an opinion on "The Dan Patrick Show," say | 61 |
| Express train that stops at Washington's Union Station | 58 |
| Exposé about the tawdry relations of a 16th-century theologian? | 66 |
| Explorer whose autobiography is titled "Alone" | 56 |
| Explorer who commanded HMS Endeavour and HMS Resolution | 55 |
| Explorer Vitus with a sea and strait named after him | 52 |
| Explorer of North America's eastern coast in 1524 | 53 |
| Explode, and words needed to complete the four starred answers | 62 |
| Explanation that doesn't explain anything, informally | 57 |
| Explanation from one who doesn't care for anal sex? | 55 |
| Experimental, dissonant music genre named by Stan Kenton | 56 |
| Exotic reptile wreaking havoc in the Florida Everglades | 55 |
| Exonerated boxer who is the subject of a Bob Dylan song | 55 |
| Exited the elevator to the high-ceilinged SoHo flat? | 52 |
| Existence portrayed in TV's "The Riches" | 54 |
| Exhortation that, in fact, is not in the Hippocratic Oath | 57 |
| Exhibit found in this puzzle's four longest answers | 55 |
| Excruciating airline inconvenience (the last straw!) | 52 |
| Exclamations of greeting, anger, attention-getting, or accentuation | 67 |
| Exclamation written in scripts as "(annoyed grunt)" | 61 |
| Exclamation that might be punctuated "??!?" | 53 |
| Exclamation often followed by multiple exclamation points | 57 |
| Exclamation from Mr. Bill in old "SNL" sketches | 57 |
| Exclamation from George Costanza's relaxation tape | 54 |
| Exclamation before "I didn't know that!" | 54 |
| Exclamation after "What are you waiting for?" | 55 |
| Exclamation after "Presto chango!," perhaps | 53 |
| Excited response to "Who wants ice cream?" | 52 |
| Except in leap years, its calendar is identical to Jan. | 55 |
| Excellent chances with one of Liz Taylor's husbands? | 56 |
| Exceeds limits (or what each of this puzzle's theme items does?) | 68 |
| Excavation site in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 54 |
| Exasperated response to "How was your day?" | 53 |
| Exams with a "Logic Games" section, for some reason | 61 |
| Exams for students of '60s and '70s military history? | 61 |
| Exam with sections known as "arguments," for short | 60 |
| Exam with logical and analytical reasoning sections: Abbr. | 58 |
| Exam with a reading comprehension section, for short | 52 |
| Exam material you really wouldn't want to memorize | 54 |
| Exam Ally McBeal would have had to take, were she real | 54 |
| Exam "filled in" by three answers in this puzzle | 58 |
| Exactly ... like a conservative's plan to lower taxes? | 58 |
| Ex-Smiths (and current Modest Mouse) guitarist Johnny | 53 |
| Ex-NBAer Jerry who cowrote "The Memory Book" | 54 |
| Ex-mayor seen in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" | 55 |
| Ewing whose ex-wife dreamt an entire season of "Dallas" | 65 |
| Evil-___ (the only female villain in The Masters of the Universe) | 65 |
| Evil grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" | 53 |
| Evil "Star Trek" juggernaut, with "the" | 59 |
| Evil "Star Trek" group, with "the" | 54 |
| Evidentiary home movie studied by the Warren Commission | 55 |
| Everything's better with this on it, according to a catch phrase | 68 |
| Every month's 13th day, except March, May, July and October | 63 |
| Everly Brothers hit subtitled "To Watch Good Love Go Bad" | 67 |
| Everlast line "Had to walk a ___ in his shoes" | 56 |
| Evergreen tree has critical condition that's contagious (7) | 63 |
| Evergreen shrub that's Spanish for "little apple" | 63 |
| Everett ___, player of Mr. Bernstein in "Citizen Kane" | 64 |
| Everest climber Jon who wrote "Into Thin Air" | 55 |
| Ever ___ Morissette-Treadway (Alanis's new baby) | 52 |
| Events during which it is inauspicious to eat duck or shrimp | 60 |
| Events crashed by this puzzle's uninvited guests? | 53 |
| Event won by Roger Federer for five consecutive years | 53 |
| Event with an opening on 8/8/08, since 8 is a lucky number | 58 |
| Event whose MVPs have included George Mikan and Walt Frazier | 60 |
| Event whose followers are sometimes called bracketeers | 54 |
| Event whose finals are played in Arthur Ashe Stadium | 52 |
| Event where everyone in New Orleans naps in sunbeams? | 53 |
| Event where "Roll Over Beethoven" might be played | 59 |
| Event that is very difficult for new fathers, let me just say | 61 |
| Event that includes Snowboarding Charades and Motocross 20 Questions? | 69 |
| Event that earned McKayla Maroney a silver medal in 2012 | 56 |
| Event that could be seen as far away as Las Vegas in the '50s | 65 |
| Event scheduled for 2008 in Beijing (with "The") | 58 |
| Event in which Picabo Street won her only Olympic gold medal | 60 |
| Event in R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" | 52 |
| Event for socializing with a celebrity on an island? | 52 |
| Event first hosted by Dennis Miller, with "the" | 57 |
| Event celebrated in "Through the Looking-Glass" | 57 |
| Event at every modern Summer Olympics except the first | 54 |
| Evening after work set aside for a urinary tract exam? | 54 |
| Eve ___, "The Vagina Monologues" monologist | 53 |
| Evanescence lyric "Give ___ me your troubles" | 55 |
| Eustacia ___, "The Return of the Native" woman | 56 |
| Eurythmics: "Travel the world and the seven ___" | 58 |
| European politician whose last name means "cabbage" | 61 |