| BALTIMOREORIOLE | "State bird of Maryland (In this answer. note letters 7-8. 10-11 and 13) |
| CPAS | Accountants in the US in short 8 10 11 (4) |
| INGLE | Richard ___, English seaman and tobacco trader who took control of Maryland in 1645 (5) |
| ESPRESSOBAR | Place serving cappuccinos and macchiatos (In this answer, note letters 7-10) |
| WHATDIDIDOWRONG | "Where was my mistake?" (In this clue's answer, note letters 7-10) |
| BALLOONARCH | Curved decoration at a party (In this answer, note letters 7-10) |
| ORIOLE | State bird of Maryland for which a baseball team was named |
| SLIPSAWAY | *Sneaks off (In this answer, note letters 7-4) |
| KOREANPENINSULA | Seoul's landmass (see letters 2-3, 10-11 and 14-15 in this answer) |
| THEDIVINECOMEDY | Dante work whose first section is "Inferno" (... letters 7-8 and 10-13) |
| PARISCATACOMBS | Underground site in France's capital (... letters 7-8 and 11-12) |
| PULL | See 11 & 13 Dn. What disjointed members of a tug-of-war team should do! (4,10,8) |
| MIDDLEAGESPREAD | Fortysomething's woe, or this puzzle's theme (see letters 7, 8 and 9) |
| SANJUANISLANDS | Washington archipelago with a Spanish name (letters 3-4, 10-11 and 12-13) |
| BRAKEJOBS | Garage offerings, and a phonetic hint to what the black squares in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do |
| INTERMISSIONS | Breaks found on rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 of this puzzle? |
| CALAMARI | *Official appetizer of the Ocean State (... letters 7-8) |
| HOWLUCKYAMI | "It's good to be me, right?" (In this answer, note letters 8-10) |
| SCRATCHTICKETS | Cards to scrape (... letters 1, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 14) |
| CAMOUFLAGE | "Trick" used by the creatures found in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 |
