| LEGUP | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| JUMPSTART | Battery boost and what the first part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| INREVERSE | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| AINTTHATTHEPITS | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| INTHEDARK | Wild guess, and a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| KITTYCORNER | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| SUGGESTIONBOXES | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| ROLLINGBLACKOUT | Temporary, controlled power shutdown ... or a hint to reading four of this puzzle's answers |
| WORLDSAPART | Utterly different, and what can be found in four of this puzzle's answers |
| FIREWALL | Network-security option . . . or what's creating a barrier within four of this puzzle's answers |
| IOERROR | Computer glitch responsible for four of this puzzle's answers |
| LONG | Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers |
| OWO | Surprised emoticon hidden in four of this puzzle's answers |
| AND | Word missing from four of this puzzle's answers |
| SISISENOR | Acapulco assent (and a phonetic hint to four of the Across answers) |
| INTHEHOLE | Warning before a detonation ... and a hint to 16 of this puzzle's answers |
| LANGUAGEBARRIER | Tourist's concern, and a description of four of this puzzle's black squares |
| SEETHELIGHT | Understand (and a hint to both parts of this puzzle's answers to starred clues) |
| PARTTIMEJOB | Many a side hustle, and a description of seven of this puzzle's answers, in a way |
| DOUBLENEGATIVE | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle's clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
