| Oscar-winning star of "Tropic Blunder: The True Story Behind the Making of the Most Expensive Fake True War Story Ever" in 2008's "Tropic Thunder" | 170 |
| One of the "three little people" whose problems "don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," in a classic film | 144 |
| Org. founded in 1913 "to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens" | 143 |
| Ones whose names are spelled by this puzzle's circled letters ... with representatives of two realms "wrestling" for supremacy | 140 |
| One of the worst big-name TV casting choices of 2008 (for "Kath & Kim"), according to the website Television Without Pity | 135 |
| Only NBA player to shoot at least 50% on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws for five consecutive seasons | 127 |
| Org. using the scare tactic that "Congress will rewrite No Child Left Behind next year" to get out the vote this year | 127 |
| Only tree in the Monty Python sketch "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away" | 117 |
| One with an important role in the production of a fantasy film or period drama (not so important for a porno, though) | 117 |
| Old song with the lyric "When he would ride in the afternoon / I'd follow him with my hickory broom" | 114 |
| One of two reserve components (the other being its "Army" counterpart) of the United States Armed Forces | 114 |
| Org. for Ann Miller, who said "You try to help them, try to sing and dance ... it's heartbreaking." | 113 |
| Oscar who said: "I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed" | 112 |
| Online world where people live and pay taxes in 2010, according to Tom Clancy's "Net Force" series | 112 |
| One of only three golfers who briefly kept Tiger Woods out of the World #1 spot between 1/11/1998 and 10/30/2010 | 112 |
| Only song on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list that is not sung in English | 108 |
| Office building problem that's a hint to this puzzle's theme entries (see their last three letters) | 107 |
| One of Joe Theismann's bones infamously broken by Lawrence Taylor on "Monday Night Football" | 106 |
| Ones who are enticing (you didn't think every entry in this stack was going to be pretty, did you?) | 103 |
| One of the only 12 letter words that typists can produce with just the left hand on a standard keyboard | 103 |
| Org. that has four teams with non-plural nicknames, which begin this puzzle's four longest answers | 102 |
| Odd-looking but versatile garments the Once-ler manufactures in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" | 101 |
| Off-the-cuff riffs about old-timey clothes-cleaning devices? (Happy New Year to Emperor Justinian I!) | 101 |
| One of only two women on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 100 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "California Suite" | 99 |
| One-hit wonder that totally ripped off the Postal Service for its 2009 #1 hit "Fireflies" | 99 |
| Org. with a flag of five alternating green and white stripes and a blue union with 24 white stars | 97 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| One set of gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" ... as suggested by the circled squares? | 97 |
| On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code | 97 |
| Only Rose, Aaron, Musial, Mays, Bonds, and Yount have played more National League games than him | 96 |
| Observation as to why a Kansas-based company has to relocate to San Francisco instead of Boston? | 96 |
| Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle | 96 |
| Oscar-nominated movie where the main characters are chased down the street by an angry naked guy | 96 |
| Or maybe the subjects have ___, a condition in which letters and numbers are perceived as colors | 96 |
| Only person to have the #1 movie, #1 album and #1-rated late-night TV show all in the same week | 95 |
| Only sch. to win both the menÂ’s and womenÂ’s N.C.A.A. basketball titles in the same year | 95 |
| Org. with the ad slogan "It's not science fiction. It's what we do every day" | 95 |
| Only person to garner Oscar nominations for producer, director, writer, and actor for two films | 95 |
| Oxford American Dictionary's 2012 word of the year, and the key to this puzzle's theme | 94 |
| Officer who arrested Arlo for illegally dumping garbage in "Alice's Restaurant" | 93 |
| Oscar-winning star of "To Serve and Protect" in 1997's "In & Out" | 93 |
| One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be": Bierce | 92 |
| Org. that promotes motor oil recycling with the slogan "You dump it, you drink it" | 92 |
| Original "King Kong" character Carl, to be reprised by Jack Black in a 2005 remake | 92 |
| One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" | 91 |
| Org. whose champion is determined at the beginning of each season by a cackling David Stern | 91 |
| On second thought, make it an edgy comedy: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being..." | 91 |
| Ohio's ___ Point, home of the Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force roller coasters | 90 |
| Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15] | 90 |
| Only pitcher to win the deciding games of the ALCS, ALDS and World Series in the same year | 90 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice" | 90 |
| Oscar-winning star of "A World for Two" in 1954's "A Star Is Born" | 90 |
| Org. that replaced the "Drunk Driving" part of its acronym in the late '90s | 89 |
| Old riddle: "What did Delaware?" Answer: "I don't know, but ___" | 88 |
| Only person to win an Oscar and a Razzie for Direction (not for the same movie, however) | 88 |
| One may be knocked over continually by those goddamn teenagers in their goddamned pickup | 88 |
| Old "S.N.L." character currently in MasterCard's "Priceless" ads | 88 |
| Only major "MASH" character played by the same actor in the film and TV series | 88 |
| Ocean predator, of which there are five types starting this puzzle's longest answers | 88 |
| Office purchase, and in a way, what can be seen in this puzzle's sequence of circles | 88 |
| Old bandleader with the catch phrase "That's right–you're wrong!" | 87 |
| Off one's rocker, and a hint to what the four longest puzzle answers have in common | 87 |
| On-again off-again fast food sandwich that has been on two "retirement tours" | 87 |
| One of the "Ten Worst Automobiles of 2007" as ranked by thetruthaboutcars.com | 87 |
| One of Shakespeare's begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 87 |
| One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" | 87 |
| Old film actress who starred in 1950's TV's "The Pride of the Family" | 87 |
| One-named model who wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 86 |
| Oscar who said "Under this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character" | 86 |
| Only baseball player to hit a home run in every inning from the first through the 16th | 86 |
| Ostensible composer of "The Abduction of Figaro" and "Oedipus Tex" | 86 |
| On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..." | 86 |
| Overachievers, and a hint to a word that can precede both words of the starred answers | 86 |
| Only men's basketball coach to lead three different schools to the NCAA Final Four | 86 |
| Only Secretary of Defense to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected President | 86 |
| Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. | 86 |
| Only major U.S. city with a radio station whose call letters spell the city's name | 86 |
| Other than Cain and Abel, the only son of Adam and Eve mentioned by name in the Bible | 85 |
| Only player other than Sheffield to make the All-Star team with five different clubs | 84 |
| Opera character who cries "Il fazzoletto!" ("The handkerchief!") | 84 |
| One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring | 84 |
| Orioles hurler (1966 champs) / Solo crooner of "Oh! My Pa-Pa" (#1 in 1954) | 84 |
| Oil-based paste mentioned in the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" | 84 |
| Onetime Minnesota governor who ran for the G.O.P. presidential nomination nine times | 84 |
| Only 20th-century president whose three distinct initials are in alphabetical order | 83 |
| One-named singer/songwriter of the 1970 Woodstock-inspired hit "Lay Down" | 83 |
| Org. in which "everybody played with a gay teammate," per Charles Barkley | 83 |
| Other name of the hit song "Volare," "___ Blu, Dipinto di Blu" | 83 |
| One famously begins "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" | 83 |
| One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College | 83 |
| One of the things "I've been" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
| One place to follow the object named in the circled letters (reading left to right) | 83 |
| Online music application with a social networking component called "Ping" | 83 |
| Only tennis player who has won all four Grand Slam titles at least four times each | 82 |
| Opera character who sees the words "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" | 82 |
| Org. that requested the Pet Shop Boys change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys | 82 |
| One of "Time"'s 20th-century "greatest heroes & icons" | 82 |
| Oingo Boingo leader also known for composing the theme to "The Simpsons" | 82 |
| One might break off of your plastic fork, and right into the egg salad (goddammit) | 82 |