| ELVISHAS | Announcement after a Presley concert ... and a hint to the word removed to form each starred clue's answer |
| BUILDING | Announcement after a Presley concert ... and a hint to the word removed to form each starred clue's answer |
| LEFTTHE | Announcement after a Presley concert ... and a hint to the word removed to form each starred clue's answer |
| DOWNINFRONT | Cry to one blocking your view at a concert ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| MEETINTHEMIDDLE | Compromise, or what two letters of a phrase do to form each starred clue's answer? |
| MSG | Site of four sold-out 1972 Elvis Presley concerts, for short |
| OHMY | Cry of astonishment ... and phrase uttered immediately after saying the plural form each of the answers to the three starred clues, perhaps? |
| GIGAWATT | Between concert and a race, a wife gets much power (8) |
| ONEND | Upright, and what's been removed to form this puzzle's theme answers |
| LIL | Word removed from Bow Wow's name |
| OBEY | Word removed from many modern wedding vows |
| FIORD | Fine word removed? New inlet (5) |
| MEERSCHAUM | Clay forms each summer (10) |
| INNERCIRCLE | Small, influential group ... and a hint to the word hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| FALLINGSTAR | Meteor, and a hint to the word that descends in the starred clues' answers ... and this puzzle's grid |
| WARANDPEACE | Classic novel of 1,000+ pages ... or a hint to the word ladder formed by the answers to the starred |
| BROKENCLOCKS | Items that are "right twice a day," and a hint to the word surrounding each starred answer |
| KEYCHANGE | A to B, for one ... or a hint to the word scrambled within each starred clue's answer |
| RECYCLINGCENTER | Destination for bottles and cans, and a hint to the word scrambled in each starred clue's answer |
| HAIRRAISING | *Eerie, and a hint to the word that progresses upward through the starred clues' answers |
