| CARBONFOOTPRINT | Global warming calculation whose shape is suggested by connecting 14 squares in this puzzle in a clo |
| EIFFELTOWER | Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid |
| POBOX | Certain mailing address, for short ... or a hint to 14 squares in this puzzle |
| BALLOON | Party staple suggested by connecting this puzzle's special squares |
| TWEEDS | Textiles such as the "Clo-Mor" traditionally handwoven by Outer Hebridean islanders for country clothes of the same name (6) |
| HARRIS | Southern part of the largest island of the Outer Hebrides, noted for its "clo-mor" tweed originally handwoven by local crofters from their cottages (6) |
| IRON | Smoo*h, as clo*hes |
| DOUBLE | Like the names in this puzzle, in a way |
| IMAGINARYNUMBER | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| HEMISPHERES | What our grid reveals in border is in this puzzle, in message added (11) |
| LITTLEKID | Child represented in six squares in this puzzle (in either of two different ways) |
| TOPHATS | Items sported by the answers to the starred clues ... and something depicted in this puzzle in more |
| PYRAMID | Shape which in geometry is described as a polyhedron formed by connecting a polyagonal base and an apex (7) |
| EGGS | Theme of this puzzle, in a way |
| LOWPH | Characteristic of acid, and of this puzzle, in a way |
| ARTY | Like this puzzle, in a way |
| ZZTOP | Rock band whose name is suggested by the first row of this puzzle |
| BOAT | A clipper, dinghy, ship or yacht for life on the brine whose shape is reflected in the form of an argyle, gravy jug, navette or wide bateau neckline (4) |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| CROISSANT | French foodstuff whose shape is sometimes falsely claimed to celebrate a defeat of Arabic invaders of Europe |
