| DIY | "Home work" letters that appear at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers |
| MUSICALSCALE | Parts of it appear at both the starts and ends of this puzzle's eight theme phrases |
| STS | "Two-way" thoroughfares at both ends of this puzzle's long answers |
| OUTCROPS | Parts of rock formations or mineral veins that appear at the surface of the earth (8) |
| MUSICALSCALENOTES | They appear at the ends of this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| FIRSTAMENDMENT | Source of the freedoms found at the ends of this puzzle's four other longest answers |
| BUNNY | Critter that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| PANEL | Discussion group, and a word that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| NHL | Org. with members found at the ends of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| LETTERDROP | Apt phrase spelled by the deleted ends of this puzzle's theme answers |
| FUN | Apt word for this puzzle's theme, found by using the three letters that appear nowhere else in this entire puzzle's grid |
| DIAGONALS | Lines on which you will find the ends of this puzzle's theme entries |
| POPPED | Asked, burst open, extracted, or broke, as the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| NEWS | What you might get from the ends of this puzzle's six longest answers |
| KEEPERS | It can follow the ends of this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| SHIRE | English county (it can be added to the ends of this puzzle's seven longest answers) |
| GIRLS | Little ones who, they say, are made up of the ends of this puzzle's four longest entries |
| MUM | The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| SPIEL | Sales person's forte, and a synonym for the ends of this puzzle's three longest entries |
| HRH | Letters that appear in front of some royal family members |
