| ITSDISCONNECTED | "Check the plug!" (and a hint to solving four rows in this puzzle) |
| LETDOWNYOURHAIR | Words to Rapunzel, and a hint to solving four puzzle answers |
| ANIFORANEYE | Payback phrase altered to provide a hint to solving four other puzzle answers |
| SOCKET | Here's a place for a plug! |
| APIN | "Put ___ in it," advice for solving four answers in this puzzle |
| COVERYOUREYES | Warning before a gory movie scene ... or a phonetic hint to answering four rows in this puzzle |
| RAISETHEDEAD | Bring people back to life, and what you must do in four rows in this puzzle |
| EXCHANGINGRINGS | Sharing in a symbol of commitment ... or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| OUTLIKEALAMB | End of a phrase about March that describes the fifth, eighth, and eleventh rows in this puzzle? |
| SANTAS | "Secret" figures hidden among the third, sixth, tenth, and thirteenth rows in this puzzle |
| SEEDOUBLE | Have trouble focusing, and what you will do literally in two rows in this puzzle |
| BREAKINGBAD | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| LATESHIFT | Overnight work assignment ... or a hint to understanding four rows of answers in this puzzle |
| FORESEES | Anticipates announcement of what across rows in this puzzle contain (8) |
| HENRYHIGGINS | Professor initially appearing twice in a row in this puzzle (5,7) |
| BROKEN | With 40-Across, repeat offender? ... or something found, literally, in four rows in this puzzle |
| THESPOILS | They're divided by victors, and divided in four rows of this puzzle |
| KNOCKOUTGAS | Incapacitating agent of pulp detective and scifi novels ... and a hint to solving this puzzle's starred clues |
| CONDENSEDMILK | Ingredient of sweetened Thai tea, and a hint to solving some squares in this puzzle |
| DROPZONE | Certain delivery location, and a hint to solving six answers in this puzzle |
