| THEEDGE | Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin were pitted against the elements and each other in this 1997 action |
| VETCH | Climber going against the elements and catching cold (5) |
| CIA | Spy group once pitted against the KGB (1,1,1) |
| EXPOSURE | Lack of shelter from the elements and its harmful effects on the body; or, public attention (8) |
| CROSSWORD | Sicily's Etna volcano has appeared 745 times -- far more than any other -- in this part of the New York Times |
| NEUTRALITY | Not supporting one side or the other in this state (10) |
| EDGE | The ___, 1997 film drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin (4) |
| ELEMENT | Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich outwit the dastardly Mr Zorg in this 1997 sci-fi action film, The F |
| MENINBLACK | Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones starred in this 1997 movie (3,2,5) |
| NOTHINGTOLOSE | Tim Robbins headed the cast in this 1997 buddy movie (7,2,4) |
| KITES | Flying frames that can be toys or, in Afghanistan for instance, can be pitted against each other in |
| THEBIGONE | "Protecting the earth from the scum of corporate America" was the tagline for this 1997 Michael Moore film |
| NINETYDEGREES | Temperature on a hot day, or a hint to the starred clues' answers and each black square arrangement in the grid |
| HOTEL | Liverpool's "Britannia Adelphi" was the subject of this 1997 fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary |
| CENTERPIECE | Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? |
| ATTRACT | Draw between the Poles pitted against each other? (7) |
| CLUES | This, and 77 others in this puzzle |
| SUIT | Find a king and a queen among others in this matching attire (4) |
| DETERMINERS | Words such as 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this' and 'each', used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate which thing(s) one is referring to (11) |
| TWINS | Target Field team, and each pair of intersecting names in the answers to starred clues |
