Answer: BIG
BIG is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 111 times.
Referring Clues:
- Oversized
 - Sweeping
 - Full-size
 - Megaproportioned
 - Famous
 - Important
 - Kentucky's __ South Fork National River & Recreation Area
 - Worth mentioning
 - 1988 Hanks comedy
 - Hanks film
 - Magnanimous
 - Word before game or deal
 - 1988 Hanks film
 - Like Ben and Bertha
 - Word with Ben or Bertha
 - Impressive
 - Popular
 - Word with band or bang
 - Word with cheese or wheel
 - With 34-Down, NCAA hoops conference
 - With 41-Across, coastal region of California
 - 1988 Tom Hanks film (and a link to the starts of this puzzle's other six film titles)
 - Mac and cheese lead-in
 - Like Ben and Bertha?
 - With 1-Across, Boston public works project
 - 1988 Hanks film with a fortune-telling machine
 - Film in which Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old
 - Influential
 - Large
 - Quite generous
 - Tom Hanks vehicle
 - Imposing
 - Humongous
 - Word with shot or bang
 - Headline-making
 - Whopping
 - Very important
 - Not at all small
 - 1988 Tom Hanks film
 - Ginormous
 - -
 - Ten or Ben preceder
 - Consequential
 - Monumental
 - Grown-up
 - Colossal
 - Huge
 - Sizable
 - Massive
 - Hefty
 - Sizeable
 - Tom Hanks film
 - Tom Hanks movie
 - Immense
 - Not 41-Across
 - Enormous
 - Highly successful
 - Gargantuan
 - *Tom Hanks film
 - Expansive
 - Kind of deal
 - One way to make it
 - With 61-Down, description of the 1-Across
 - Word with wheel or deal
 - Very generous
 - Towering
 - Really important
 - Mac or cheese preceder
 - Large-scale
 - All over the news
 - Word before Mac or cheese
 - Very popular
 - Of major concern
 - Film for which Tom Hanks got his first Oscar nomination
 - ___ top
 - ___ dipper
 - "The ___ Sleep" (1946)
 - Titanic
 - Worth writing home about
 - Popular, so to speak
 - Above average in size
 - Cornell athletes
 - With 120-Down, Wrigley's gum brand
 - With 69-Across, V.I.P.
 - Fat
 - Word with "cheese" or "bang"
 - Highly successfully
 - Not insignificant
 - Word before data or deal
 - "The ___ Bang Theory"
 - "___ time rush"
 - Trending
 - Mammoth
 - The ___ Dipper
 - Epic
 - Great
 - ___ Bertha (WWI gun)
 - [boy and man] [piano] [crystal ball]
 - Really popular
 - With 44-Across, it goes around every hour
 - Front-page
 - "Sharice's ___ Voice"
 - Country rockers Little ___ Town
 - Generous
 - "___ Nate" (comic strip)
 - Tom Hanks movie featuring a giant piano
 - Gigantic
 - Momentous
 - 1988 film for which Tom Hanks received his first Oscar nomination
 - Like Ronald McDonald's shoes
 - Not small
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 22, 2025
 - USA Today - June 27, 2025
 - USA Today - June 05, 2025
 - New York Times - April 22, 2025
 - USA Today - March 11, 2025
 - LA Times - February 25, 2025
 - New York Times - January 22, 2025
 - USA Today - October 02, 2024
 - USA Today - April 04, 2024
 - LA Times - February 28, 2024
 - USA Today - February 13, 2024
 - New York Times - July 16, 2023
 - LA Times - April 21, 2023
 - New York Times - March 05, 2023
 - New York Times - February 06, 2023
 - USA Today - January 13, 2023
 - LA Times - January 13, 2023
 - LA Times - December 01, 2022
 - LA Times - October 06, 2022
 - USA Today - August 05, 2022
 
Seen a clue for the answer big that we don't have? Then please submit it to us so we can make the clue database even better!