| MOVEON | Advance, and the explanation of the puzzle theme |
| MAN | Person involved in the centre of the puzzle theme answers |
| ORDEROF | Start of the explanation of the arrangement |
| PLIGHTS | Predicaments people face, and the explanations |
| MONSTERMASH | Novelty song (and #1 hit) with the lyric "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" ... and an apt description of the puzzle's theme |
| OPENFRAMES | They end with some of the puzzle's theme still standing |
| TEASE | Homophone of the puzzle's theme |
| EEE | Essence of the puzzle's theme |
| DOPPLER | Physicist remembered for his explanation of the apparent change in the frequency of a wavelength caused by the relative motion of the source (7) |
| DEFINITION | Any one of the concise explanations of the meanings of words in a dictionary; or, visual clarity or sharpness of outline (10) |
| ASTHEENTRYSCLUE | ... and, finally, the end of the explanation |
| EKMAN | Swedish oceanographer noted for his explanation of the role of the Coriolis effect on seawater curre |
| FUELINJECTION | Internal combustion process, and an explanation of the other long Across answers |
| TOPMARKS | In explanation of the best score, points to the head (3,5) |
| AXISPOWERS | WWII adversaries (or a further explanation of the theme) |
| GIMMEABREAK | 1980s Nell Carter sitcom, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in the ends of 17-, 32-, 39- and 46-A |
| ROLLCALL | Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers |
| BEFOREHAND | In advance, and, literally, where the starts of the answers to starred clues might go |
| EINSTEIN | German-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect (8) |
| ACCOUNT | Give an explanation of the story |
