| CUTITOUT | "Enough!"...or how to make sense of each starred answer |
| DROPCAP | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| SAVEIT | "That's enough!" ... or what one can do with the first word of 17-, 27-, 45- and 60-Across |
| DONTLOOKATME | "I had nothing to do with it!" . . . or how to make sense of twelve of this puzzle's clues |
| TRIMTHETREE | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| DROPIT | "Move on!" ... or how to decipher the 16 starred clues |
| TAKEALETTER | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| ADDONE | How to make sense of the starred clues |
| DOTHEMATH | "Figure it out!" ... or how to arrive at this puzzle's solution, using the answers to italicized clues |
| RAINOUT | Unwanted outcome for a sports match...and a hint as to how to make sense of twelve across answers in this puzzle |
| SEVERAL | Four or five, or how to make the theme answers in this puzzle |
| SHOWTHEWAY | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| FIRSTDRAFT | Preliminary version of a writing composition ... or how to describe the beginning of the answers to each of the starred clues? |
| AHEADOFTIME | Early, or a hint to where each half of each starred answer can be found |
| NOEL | Christmas season... or a phonetic hint to how the starred clues must be read in order to make sense of their answers |
| ODDONESOUT | Misfits... or a hint to which letters to remove from the starred entries to make sense of their second clues |
| POT | Word that, when affixed to the first word of each starred answer, refers to a type of person |
| PAR | What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to |
| GLASSBOTTOM | Feature of some tour boats, or what the end of each starred answer can have? |
| DOUBLEHEADER | Ballpark marathon, or hint to what can precede both parts of each starred answer |
