| BROKENPROMISE | Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what's hidden in this puzzle's theme answers |
| DNA | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| IDO | Promising words (and what's hidden in this puzzle's four longest entries) |
| SIXDEGREES | Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle |
| LEACOCK | Canadian teacher, political scientist and humorist whose comic works include Literary Lapses and Frenzied Fiction (7,7) |
| STEPHEN | Canadian teacher, political scientist and humorist whose comic works include Literary Lapses and Frenzied Fiction (7,7) |
| ERRS | Lapses and sins |
| AMNESIA | Cause of lapses and bad manners vicar periodically ignored |
| TEARAPART | Rip to pieces, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| RADIOEDIT | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| SEEDCAPITAL | Startup funds ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| ANTEUP | Poker request, and a literal hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| SWAPMEET | Collectors' event, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| DAILYJUMBLE | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| TUMBLEWEEDS | Drifters in some Western scenes and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
| YINANDYANG | Chinese philosophical forces, and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| CANIGETANAMEN | "Anyone agree with me?" and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| THEIDESOFMARCH | Bad day for Julius, and a hint to what's hidden in three long answers |
| SHAPESHIFTERS | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| ADDTOGETHER | Combine ... and a hint to what's hidden in eight long answers |
