Twenty Fifteen

Doc: We're back in the year 2015!
Marty: Looks like there is all kinds of technology everywhere Doc.
Doc: Indeed you are right. Seems that we finally put the pieces together and got the wheels turning.
Changes
2/24/2015, 11:32pm: Hints have been added. Check below!
2/20/2015, 2:14pm: Split Decisions - Changed image.
2/20/2015, 2:08pm: This is Heavy - Changed 69-Across and 32-Down.
A Rock and a Hard Place - Puzzle Tile
All in the Family - Puzzle Tile
Hints?
A Rock and a Hard Place
- This puzzle should raise some flags.
- If you avoid all the people in this puzzle, you reach nirvana.
All in the Family
- All the characters referenced come back to a character in a much different collective work.
- A+1=A, A+2=B, etc.
New World Airlines
- The airlines reference characters who have to attend these locations for those reasons.
- The answer is a location NOT used in this puzzle.
Split Decisions
- The numbers next to each picture depict the letter numeration.
- The "end of the beginning" is the letter extraction
Sore Losers
- This puzzle looks at a popular YouTube series.
- These sentences can be arranged to make a cycle.
This is Heavy
- This puzzle might have extra letters in some of the boxes.
- You can arrange it to make it lighter by doing some replacing.
Well Versed
- These verses all arrange into another work.
- Note what you change to.
Meta
- Each of the answers in this round are the same length, which corresponds with the tiles.
- This puzzle might "drive ya nuts."
Upon Solving the Meta...
Time Traveler Captured: Hermione Granger
Marty: I don't know how that necklace she has works, but we got her!
Doc: That's right, and her POLYJUICE BOX won't be messing us up anymore.
Marty: Once we've got all five items, we should be able to get to the bottom of all this.
Doc: You're right, Marty! Let's hurry!