| A "career associate scanning professional" used to be called a ___ | 76 |
| A "Star Trek" officer and a physician are going to board a plane? | 75 |
| A Bond baddie had them in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" | 84 |
| A clip of his "Inside Edition" meltdown made Huffington Post's #1 spot on "YouTube's Best of 2008: Top Ten" | 135 |
| A different one is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 76 |
| A fake "RIP" tweet about him (after the VMA broadcast) made PopEater.com's "Best Celebrity Twitter Stories of 2009" | 139 |
| A famous one begins "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" | 76 |
| A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" | 122 |
| A good band pic on the CD, songs that will appeal to music producers, etc.? | 75 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| A scarab beetle with a heart-shaped mark on its wing covers was named after this adventurer | 91 |
| A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard | 99 |
| A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming | 82 |
| A synonym for it can be found inside this puzzle's four longest entries | 75 |
| A U.S. president who was also an architect, musician and inventor was ... | 73 |
| A's hurler (1989 champs) / Eurythmics musician on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (#1 in 1983) | 110 |
| A-list screenwriter (and crossword fan) who won an Oscar for "Schindler's List," Steven ___ | 105 |
| A. "Les Troyens" B. "Pelléas et Melisande" C. "La Mer" D. "Faust" | 108 |
| A. "Mommie Dearest" B. "Lonesome Dove" C. "Angela's Ashes" D. "Times to Remember" | 125 |
| A. Egg and matzo meal B. Tomatoes and cheese C. Corn or barley D. Chickpeas or beans | 84 |
| A. God of war B. Goddess of the earth C. God of love D.Ruler of the gods | 72 |
| A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" | 135 |
| A1: "... for ___ a sensitive document from the Something-or-other Embassy in Copenhagen." | 99 |
| A2: "Say, what's the 'sensitive document' our guy grabbed?" A1: "A ___, of course." A2: "Ah! Figures." | 146 |
| A: You have 24 hours to arrange payment. T: (to himself) Looks like we'll be a __ (Paul McCartney & Wings) | 114 |
| Abbr. for windsurfer Gal Fridman, who recently became his country's first Olympic gold medalist | 99 |
| Abbr. signaling that the subject line contains the full content of an e-mail | 76 |
| About 2.6 times the square of the length of one side, for a regular hexagon | 75 |
| About to get a Ph.D., definitely, if not this year then sometime in the next five | 81 |
| About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" | 94 |
| About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and its solution at the same time" | 138 |
| About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" | 72 |
| About whom Shakespeare wrote "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety" | 103 |
| ABUNDANT RUSSIAN RESOURCE THAT ONLY NICE, NON-SANCTIONING NATIONS CAN HAVE | 74 |
| Accidental portmanteau from Sarah Palin that made a few "2010 Word of the Year" lists | 95 |
| According to folklore, European city that was named by the mythical giant Antigoon | 82 |
| According to Han, "He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel.You'd like him." | 92 |
| According to Kin Hubbard, it's "like life insurance: the older you get, the more it costs" | 104 |
| According to legend, at age 2 he identified a pig's squeal as G sharp | 73 |
| According to legend, he spent decades in his mother's womb and emerged with a gray beard | 92 |
| According to legend, its continued presence on Gibraltar allows the British to retain control thereof | 101 |
| According to Oscar Levant, it's "the lowest form of humor--when you don't think of it first" | 110 |
| Achieves a rare baseball feat, delineated by part of each long puzzle answer | 76 |
| Acidity or alkalinity measurement, which is literally 8 for this puzzle's four longest answers | 98 |
| Acme product for unsuspecting rabbits to swallow (comes with magnet), from "Compressed Hare," 1961 | 108 |
| Acme product intended for recreational use (not for dropping bombs on roadrunners), from "Zipping Along," 1953 | 120 |
| Acme product that coyotes shouldn't be seen using (so to speak), from "War & Pieces," 1964 | 108 |
| Acme product that doesn't require snow (or brains), making it perfect for certain coyotes, from "Lickety Splat," 1961 | 131 |
| Acme product that simplifies dating, from "Boston Quackie," 1957 | 74 |
| Acme vehicle made for those who are a bit "unbalanced" (like coyotes), from "Hot Rod & Reel," 1959 | 122 |
| Acme weapon that makes you feel like a kid again (literally), from "Mad as a Mars Hare," 1963 | 103 |
| Acquisition of "substantially identical" stocks or securities within 30 days of trading at a loss | 107 |
| Acronym for aircraft that can depart from short runways (anagram of VOLTS) | 74 |
| Action hero's garb, and what each first word in this puzzle's four longest answers is | 93 |
| Active Ecuadorean volcano whose name means "Smooth neck of the moon" | 78 |
| Activist who said "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea" | 79 |
| Activity that in five years you're going to be embarrassed you were so into today | 85 |
| Actor Butterfield who will play Ender in the forthcoming "Ender's Game" | 85 |
| Actor currently playing Tevye on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 76 |
| Actor Dane who plays "Dr. McSteamy" on "Grey's Anatomy" | 79 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Actor in both "Shane," 1953, and "City Slickers," 1991 | 74 |
| Actor Mahershalalhashbaz ___ of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" | 79 |
| Actor Nick who was #1 on VH1's "40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mugshots" | 82 |
| Actor originally slated to play Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" | 77 |
| Actor Ostrum who played Charlie Bucket in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 93 |
| Actor Ruck who played Cameron in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 73 |
| Actor who announced in December that he was leaving "Grey's Anatomy" | 82 |
| Actor who delivered the line "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" | 92 |
| Actor who had to wait 41 years from his first Oscar nomination to his first win | 79 |
| Actor who played a coin-flipping killer in the 1932 movie "Scarface" | 78 |
| Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal | 89 |
| Actor who presented at the 1973 Oscars while a streaker ran past on camera | 74 |
| Actor who said "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" | 73 |
| Actor who said "Some people have youth, some have beauty—I have menace" | 85 |
| Actor who spoke the line, "I'd show him who was king of the forest!" | 82 |
| Actor who supposedly "destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise" | 113 |
| Actor who turned down the role of Dr. Shepherd on "Grey's Anatomy" | 80 |
| Actor who won Emmys for playing the same character on two different shows | 73 |
| Actor whose character said "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" | 87 |
| Actor whose character thought he was God in "The Ruling Class" | 72 |
| Actor whose debut film was "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" | 88 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
| Actor with three quotes on AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list | 78 |
| Actor/public speaker who often began "Unaccustomed as I am to speaking ..." | 85 |
| Actress Allen who won a Tony for "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" | 77 |
| Actress Anderson who said: "Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror" | 99 |
| Actress Beulah who played James Stewart's mother in "It's A Wonderful Life" | 93 |
| Actress Beverly who played Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" | 79 |
| Actress de Matteo who moved from "The Sopranos" to "Joey" | 77 |
| Actress in "Dracula's Daughter" and "The Invisible Man Returns" | 87 |
| Actress Jessica wrongly criticized by Bill O'Reilly for saying Sweden was neutral in WWII | 93 |
| Actress Kate recently voted "most desirable body" in a Daily Mail poll | 80 |
| Actress Keanan of "My Two Dads" (who now spells her name with a Y, apparently) | 88 |
| Actress Lanchester who played Jessica Marbles in "Murder by Death" | 76 |
| Actress Long who still isn't married, which is a situation I'm keeping an eye on | 88 |
| Actress Loretta who starred in the "Cagney & Lacey" television pilot | 82 |
| Actress Manheim who wrote the 1995 play "Wake Up, I'm Fat" | 72 |
| Actress Martha who played Sinatra's love interest in "Some Came Running" | 86 |
| Actress McDaniel who was the first African-American to win an Academy Award | 75 |