| Faced with two undesirable alternatives (with ''on the'') | 73 |
| Facetious unit defined as the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship | 72 |
| Facial gesture used to show affection (and sometimes creepy condescension) | 74 |
| Failed Facebook game where you're marooned in the middle of a highway? | 74 |
| Failed school curriculum that was the subject of the 1973 book "Why Johnny Can't Add" | 99 |
| Fairy queen who carried a "whip of cricket's bone," in Shakespeare | 80 |
| Faith whose core principles include the unity of God, religion, and humankind | 77 |
| Fallacy that offers only two choices, when in fact many more are available | 74 |
| Familiar five-word phrase that means "Excuses are unacceptable!" | 74 |
| Familiar name of a Virginia sculpture based on a Pulitzer-winning picture taken by Joe Rosenthal | 96 |
| Familiarly, nutritious trio found twice in this puzzle—one trio is hidden in certain corners | 96 |
| Family doctor's specialty, or the short-term experience you'll get solving this puzzle? | 95 |
| Family get-together or, alternately, destroy the career of the co-producer of "Achtung Baby"? | 103 |
| Family that first appeared in the 1962 children's book "The Big Honey Hunt" | 89 |
| Famous last words (and homophonically, a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 73 |
| Famous legal-system denunciation by Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist" | 74 |
| Famous rallying cry ... and a hint to eight other answers in this puzzle | 72 |
| Famously enigmatic signature on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" | 73 |
| Fannie who wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" | 74 |
| Fanny ___ (purported first wife for Mormonism founder Joseph Smith, Jr.) | 72 |
| Fantastically pretentious former nickname for one of the few musicians who could get away with it | 97 |
| Fantasy title character whose name is one letter different from the creature he rides | 85 |
| Farrah Fawcett played her in "The Great American Beauty Contest" | 74 |
| Fashion collaboration of actor James and a one-named rock-'n'-roller? | 77 |
| Fashion designer in "The Incredibles" voiced by director Brad Bird | 76 |
| Fashion designer Marc who bought Barry Bonds's 756th home run ball and let the public vote to brand it with an asterisk | 123 |
| Fashion designer Michael who's a judge on "Project Runway" | 72 |
| Fashion rule for the liberated ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 93 |
| Fashion runway, or, in a way, what this puzzle's 10 perimeter answers comprise | 82 |
| Fast-food chain that peddles a 1,010-calorie Six Dollar Super Bacon Cheese Thickburger | 86 |
| Fastest ocean liner ever in a transatlantic crossing (3 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes) | 83 |
| FDR moved it from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in 1940 | 78 |
| Feather duster's gay best friend in "Beauty and the Beast," as portrayed by Harvey Fierstein? | 107 |
| Feature hidden in the starred answers (and suggested by the grid's center) | 78 |
| Feature of this puzzle, and where the theme clues ought to have ended up | 72 |
| Featured artist on the #1 singles "Low" and "Kiss Kiss" | 75 |
| Federal org. with a "personal greenhouse gas emissions calculator" | 76 |
| Feeling literal, the guy with the dead-end fast food job tattooed the word ___ | 78 |
| Feeling literal, the woman with the zoo-going addiction tattooed the word ___ | 77 |
| Feeling of resentment associated with the last words of the starred answers | 75 |
| Felines briefly discovered, then lost again; appropriately, they're called ... | 82 |
| Fellow forgets to shave before kissing girlfriend; ref cites him for ... | 72 |
| Female actress who played Hamlet in 1899 at LondonÂ’s Adelphi Theatre | 72 |
| Female character who sings "Typically English" in "Stop the World - I Want To Get Off" | 106 |
| Female lab assistant who went for a "roll in the hay" in "Young Frankenstein" | 97 |
| Fence 'doors' that automatically return to their closed positions | 73 |
| Ferrell's "SNL" partner in "Morning Latte" skits | 72 |
| Fictional band who sang "Can't Buy Me Lunch" and "All You Need Is Cash" | 95 |
| Fictional barbershop quartet on "The Simpsons," with "The" | 78 |
| Fictional board game that warns "Do not begin unless you intend to finish" | 84 |
| Fictional character who declares "Sleep? ... I do not sleep, I die" | 77 |
| Fictional character who first appeared in "The House Without a Key" | 77 |
| Fictional character who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" | 80 |
| Fictional character who says "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" | 87 |
| Fictional character who says "I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer" | 92 |
| Fictional character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" | 74 |
| Fictional character whose name the Beastie Boys chant in "Rhymin & Stealin" | 89 |
| Fictional corporation that supplied rocket-powered roller skates and jet-propelled pogo sticks | 94 |
| Fictional hero whose first words are "I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York ..." | 101 |
| Fictional manufacturer of disintegrating pistols and jet-propelled unicycles | 76 |
| Fictional Massachusetts town wherein "Infinite Jest" takes place | 74 |
| Fictional parrot type featured in Monty Python's "dead parrot sketch" | 83 |
| Fictional pitchman whom Michael Dukakis likened to George H.W. Bush during a debate | 83 |
| Fictional private detective on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" | 77 |
| Fictional school whose motto is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" | 78 |
| Fictional supplier of rocket-powered roller skates and jet-propelled pogo sticks | 80 |
| Fifth-century pope, the first to receive the title "the Great" | 72 |
| Figs. that always seem to get pushed back when you're in a rush at the airport | 82 |
| Film character who says "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" | 76 |
| Film character who says "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" | 77 |
| Film character who says "I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it" | 96 |
| Film character who says "I promise teach karate. That my part. You promise learn" | 91 |
| Film character who says "Named must your fear be before banish it you can" | 84 |
| Film character who says "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake" | 78 |
| Film in which a stampede of African animals destroys a New Hampshire home | 73 |
| Film in which Agnes Moorehead debuted as the title character's mother | 73 |
| Film in which Marv says, "He's only a kid, Harry. We can take him." | 81 |
| Film in which Mia Farrow plays the psychiatrist of Woody Allen's character | 78 |
| Film in which the title character says "I don't permit the suffering—you do" | 94 |
| Film score composer Dimitri with twenty-six Oscar nominations and four wins | 75 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| Film that lost out to "The Silence of the Lambs" for Best Picture | 75 |
| Film villain who sings "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do!" | 73 |
| Film which featured Julianne Moore in a role once played by Jodie Foster | 72 |
| Film with the classic line "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." | 76 |
| Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" | 139 |
| Film with the line "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" | 80 |
| Film with the tagline "Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke" | 77 |
| Film with the tagline "TV the way it was meant to be seen: in a movie theatre" | 88 |
| Filter "Awake on my airplane, my skin is bare, my skin is ___" | 72 |
| Final (and a word that can precede the first word of this puzzle's longest answers) | 87 |
| Final attempt to hook up among college students ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 88 |
| Finally fixing up the boat or spending more time with the grandkids, say: Abbr. | 79 |
| Find new work - or what you must do to get the three theme entries' names in this puzzle | 92 |
| Finding from the "fifths" taken from this puzzle's theme answers | 78 |
| Finnish pentathlete Lehtonen who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 1920s | 82 |
| Fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail | 90 |
| Firefighter Red, inspiration for John Wayne's "Hellfighters" | 74 |
| First actress to play Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 77 |
| First American independent movie to get a Best Original Screenplay nomination | 77 |