hopeful I appreciate the help offered so far
and I stumbled across an issue of "Picofarad" with most of the answers,
give-or-take a few misspellings (Conana the Barbarianne ;)
As for the rest
across 63 Connie Willis -- cinematic guilty pleasure (answer: Spiderman)
note: I should have had "Calvin" for Down 41 Asimov robot investigator
across 114 James Gurney guilty pleasure (answer: chocolate)
note: for down 101, I should have had "ILIAC" [ENIAC, UNIAC,_____)
and for down 115, I should have had "Howl" (reference to the poem and the moving castle)
across 204 James Gurney's dog (answer: Happy)
across 234 Furry puppet show (answer: paw pet show [must be a furry term, I guess)
and down 226 Deer's water source? (answer: Hartwell)
down 123 Realtor, general contractor, loan officer and shopkeeper (games people play) (4 letters)
answer: Nook (from the game "Animal Crossing", evidently from the Japanese "tenuki")
down 134 Secret danger imprisoned him (answer: Number 6 [ouch])
down 145 Wolheim ref: 20 legible, 20 illegible, 10 smears
(answer: "hecto" but I would still like to know the reference)
163 leet speak: really bad (suxxor fits, but seems odd)
176 ???-holic (anime/manga) (answer: xxx)
194 neopets: cute goal (answer Ixi)
205 leet speak: totally dominated by (six letters, maybe ending in "r")
207 has license to hit and run (answer: "Bart")
209 Rusty's pal
223 Obi-Wan rode one up a cliff (answer: varactyl)
231 ID the language: Do Contest With 'pencil' (answer "DBASE")
243 Stephen King's cat came back (answer: Church)
a few other odd comments:
It seems that down 1 should be "yiff"
down 135 "lollerskates" (too funny?)
down 241 "Entei" (Pokemon legendary dog)
I am also a bit confused about the sehlat/ichigo confusion
Given all this information, my current guesses are:
http://pics.livejournal.com/capybaron/p
(see comments for some of my guesses)