| TRIPLEPLAY | Baseball rarity, and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44-Across |
| ALLAS | What a student with a 4.0 G.P.A. has ... or a hint to the vowels in this puzzle |
| MARCHMADNESS | Annual sports event that begins with Selection Sunday on 3/15 ... or, cryptically, a hint to the scrambled word found at the starts of 20-, 29-, 37- and |
| INTERN | 22, 29, and some other number |
| COMMONNOUNS | Such grammatical elements must exclude rarity and uniqueness? |
| FRONTENDS | Grille sites (and what the first words of 16-, 20-, 52- and 57-Across can be) |
| SUPREMES | Diana Ross's group, with "the" ... and a hint to the power group detectable in half of 21, 29, 37, a |
| SILENTPARTNER | Investor with a limited role ... or the unpronounced letters in the first words of the starred clues' answers, collectively? |
| SIGNANIOU | What a borrower may have to do, involving the vowels in the starred clues' answers |
| BAIN | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46and 60- Across |
| TOOLATE | "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____" (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) |
| NASALS | Phonetically, all of the vowels in the French phrase "un bon vin blanc" |
| FACETIOUSLY | An 11-letter English word with all the vowels in the correct sequence (11) |
| HIATUS | Break between two adjacent vowels in the pronunciation of a word, as in cooperate (6) |
| RAINRAINGOAWAY | Start of a hopeful rhyme about bad weather, and a hint to what the first word of 16-, 24- and 46-Across may describe |
| MIAOU | Mike disfavours all the vowels in part of a Persian's vocabulary |
| LGBTQRIGHTS | Same-sex marriage and others, or a hint to the last letters of both words of 16-, 23-, 34-, 37- and 48-Across |
| ITSALLINTHEMIND | Sports psychologist's mantra ... or what can be said about the last word of 16-, 21-, 33- or 49-Acro |
| ARENAFOOTBALL | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| TERMINATOR | With "The," Schwarzenegger film released 10/26/1984, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in the first words of 17-, 34- and 39-Across |
