| IX ^ (I/II) ...is there a Roman numeral for one-half that I'm not aware of? | 79 |
| Its women's basketball team holds the consecutive victories record(abbr.) | 77 |
| Its unique bites are referred to as "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" | 76 |
| Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra | 92 |
| Its second-ever video was for Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" | 74 |
| Its royal badge features the motto "Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad" | 73 |
| Its ratification was one of the goals of the women's suffrage movement | 74 |
| Its opening voice-over ended "to boldly go where no man has gone before" | 82 |
| Its national anthem begins "Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun" | 82 |
| Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil" | 86 |
| Its name comes from a Native American word meaning "land of the trembling earth" | 90 |
| Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 79 |
| Its motto is "Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam" ("The wise heart seeks knowledge") | 104 |
| Its ingredients may include cocoa, confectioners' sugar, and vanillin | 73 |
| Its flag states "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 82 |
| Its flag consists of a crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white background: Abbr. | 82 |
| Its first tweet was "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet" | 92 |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 85 |
| Its first issue featured Sugar Ray Robinson's wife Edna on the cover | 72 |
| Its episode titles have included "Got Murder?" and "You Kill Me" | 84 |
| Its D.C. building has the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society" | 115 |
| Its cause is what rocket scientist Robert Truax predicted would be found and corrected by 2010 | 94 |
| Items that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula Trees | 81 |
| Item: 1966 true-crime work. Problem: Pages soaked with viscous red substance. | 77 |
| Item: 1947 novel. Problem: Currently inaccessible; also probably sustaining fire damage. | 88 |
| Item: 1937 memoir. Problem: Sent to us by wrong supplier (text is in Swahili). | 78 |
| Item that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula trees | 80 |
| Item on a safari guide's "least recommended activities" list? | 75 |
| Item of clothing named for the site of a disastrous British military action of 10/25/1854 | 89 |
| Item of clothing named for the major general who led the action of 10/25/1854 | 77 |
| Item of clothing named for the commander in chief who ordered the action of 10/25/1854 | 86 |
| Item missing in this puzzle's theme that's absent as well in the fill and clues | 87 |
| Item in the hardware department with a "+" or "-" on its head | 81 |
| Item in Schrödinger's box (and in this puzzle) that exists in two different states simultaneously | 104 |
| Item in a sealed box, in a famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger | 76 |
| Item for Gil Grissom's team--one begins the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use | 82 |
| Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters | 85 |
| Italian city where Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" takes place | 84 |
| It's zero in free-fall—and, put another way, a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers were formed | 110 |
| It's what Jack Benny says twice after being told, "Your money or your life!" | 90 |
| It's usually set at lower amounts in the first years of a player's contract | 83 |
| It's the end of the world!...or, the country home to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world | 100 |
| It's the end of The World!...or not, since that was the first company to provide access to it in 1989 | 105 |
| It's the end of The World!...or at least it's seen in the bottom corner of the tarot card The World | 107 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it | 75 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you sort the countries alphabetically | 73 |
| It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World" | 123 |
| It's soft, strong, and demonstrated by this puzzle's four theme answers | 79 |
| It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there (as in "Home Alone") | 119 |
| It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there | 88 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's talking in a room | 81 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's calling them (as in "Manhattan Murder Mystery") | 121 |
| It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone" | 75 |
| It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll | 89 |
| It's more of a privilege, really, in countries like Canada that have fairly strict gun laws | 95 |
| It's made with bread at the bottom, bananas and fish in the middle, and potato chips on top | 95 |
| It's listed as "(annoyed grunt)" in "The Simpsons" scripts | 82 |
| It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit | 76 |
| It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit | 72 |
| It's found in dairy products, poultry, fish, lean meats, nuts, and eggs | 75 |
| It's featured in the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera" | 76 |
| It's easy to do with the right connections, hard if you can't find a good hotspot | 89 |
| It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you | 74 |
| It's easy to do if you're not traveling alone, hard if you're surrounded by strangers | 97 |
| It's easy to do if you're hungry, hard if it's late and the shops have closed | 89 |
| It's easy to do if you brought a headset, hard if your batteries died | 73 |
| It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood" | 89 |
| It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals" | 78 |
| It's crafted to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually gone (as in "Escape From Alcatraz") | 139 |
| It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually escaped | 118 |
| It's classified by the U.S.D.A. as red meat under cooking guidelines and as poultry under inspection standards | 114 |
| It's calculated based on the position of the sun relative to fixed stars, and is roughly 6 hours longer than its solar counterpart | 134 |
| It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names | 74 |
| It's been replaced on food labels by the Reference Daily Intake (abbr.) | 75 |
| It's along the bus route of ''Canada's Walk of Fame''? | 78 |
| It's about 325 miles east of Texas's H-Town, with "the" | 73 |
| It's "no longer current in natural colloquial speech," per the OED | 80 |
| It's "more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much," according to Buddy Hackett | 109 |
| It's "heavier freight for the shipper than it is for the consignee": Augustus Thomas | 98 |
| It's ''positively'' hidden four times in this puzzle | 72 |
| It was once voted "America's Most Innovative Company" by Fortune magazine | 87 |
| It was once advertised as "Your favorite drink in your favorite flavor" | 81 |
| It was 2nd (behind New York City) on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Rudest Cities | 97 |
| It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" | 81 |
| It uses only the 12 letters A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U and W (like eight long answers in this puzzle) | 106 |
| It states that a planet's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus | 75 |
| It states "as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" | 129 |
| It stands for "Committee for State Security" after translation | 72 |
| It put out the first crossword book in 1924 (and soon changed its name to Simon & Schuster) | 95 |
| It publishes an annual "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" list | 76 |
| It precedes "Substituted Ball" in the Definitions section of the "Rules of Golf" | 100 |
| It once had a jingle with the line "One little can will keep you running free" | 88 |
| It might say "What part of 'cookie' don't you understand?" | 80 |
| It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore" | 77 |
| It may be given to a turkey before roasting, or a person during a massage | 73 |
| It may be charged by airport shuttle services if you're late from a flight | 78 |
| It lost out to "Spirited Away" for Best Animated Feature of 2002 | 74 |
| It lost out to "Leonard Part 6" for the 1987 Razzie Award for Worst Picture | 85 |
| It includes a vest ... and what can be found in each set of circles in the long answers | 87 |