| YOUTOO | "Have a nice day" response, and a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| EXTREMEMAKEOVER | Reality series with a "Home Edition" spinoff, and a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| DAMSEL | "I'm a ___, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day." ("Hercules" line) |
| RUNAROUNDSUE | 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme |
| PICKLEBALL | Court sport, and a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| GOTOHELL | Nasty response to "have a nice day" |
| TAILSPINS | Sudden downturns, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circles |
| GRANDFINALE | Climactic show ending, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| TURNCOAT | Traitor, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circles |
| BOYCRAZY | Like many teen girls, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circled squares |
| DRINKSAREONME | "I've got this round!" ... or a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| DRINKSONME | "I'm paying for this round" ... or a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| SMILEYFACES | "Have a nice day" symbols |
| SMILEYFACE | "Have a nice day" emoticon |
| TRITE | Like "Have a nice day," for example |
| HAPPYFACE | *"Have a nice day" graphic |
| ACCENTS | "We've all become the same, we dress the same ways, only our _ _ _ _ _ _ _ change," from The Stereophonics' "Have A Nice Day" (7) |
| ALLBETSAREOFF | "We're don't know where things are headed," and a cryptic literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| DROPTHEBALL | Lose focus, and a visual hint to solving seven Across clues and a literal hint to seven Down answers |
| HOPIN | Words to a hitchhiker, and a literal hint to what spans both words of the answers to starred clues |
