| YOUDOYOU | Encouragement of individuality ... or a hint to a letter, a word and another letter within each starred clue's answer |
| DELED | Marked for deletion (a letter, a word struck out of a text) |
| DASH | Between one word and another it may show elan (4) |
| NOTWOAREALIKE | Description of snowflakes ... and the letters within each of the answers to the starred clues |
| LEIGHTONMEESTER | *She played Blair Waldorf on "Gossip Girl" (Theme hint: Notice three letters within each starred clue's answer) |
| ORIGINAL | A person of marked individuality or oddity (8) |
| IDENTITY | Individuality or personality (8) |
| ANAGRAM | From Greek for "back, anew" and "letter", a word or phrase formed by rearranging those of another, such as astronomer/moon starer, listen/silent or the Morse code/here come dots (7) |
| EYE | Homophone of the ninth letter, a word for an oculus of a cyclone, cyclops, daisy, human, needle or setter (3) |
| AITCH | Wait cheerfully to find a letter within (5) |
| PSI | Greek letter within "epsilon" |
| THATSONME | "My bad" ... or a hint to a two-line arrangement within each pair of starred clues' answers |
| KEYCHANGE | A to B, for one ... or a hint to the word scrambled within each starred clue's answer |
| LEFTFIELD | Figuratively, where some wild ideas come out of; literally, a hint to a word and its position when p |
| SEENANDNOTHEARD | What children should be, proverbially ... or, when read as 5 parts, a hint to a letter in each starred answer |
| THATWASEASY | Confident post-exam assertion, and a hint to a letter pair in each starred answer |
| PROTEINSHAKE | Healthy drink, and a hint to the word scrambled within each starred clue's answer |
| FILMADAPTATIONS | Novel forms for novels, and a clue to the word scrambled within each starred answer |
| LIPSAREMOVIN | 2014 top 10 hit for Meghan Trainor, and what's happening at the beginning of the answer to each star |
| MEAL | Each star in a Bush Tucker Trial on I'm a Celeb represents one of these (4) |
