| STATEYOURNAME | Common request from a prosecutor, and a hint to the asterisked answers |
| ROCKBOTTOM | Lowest level, and a hint to the asterisked answers |
| UPSTART | Arrogant newcomer, or a hint to the asterisked answers' initials |
| COUNTINGSTARS | *2013 OneRepublic hit ... and a task that, if applied to the asterisked answers, yields five |
| PLEA | ___ bargain (deal between a prosecutor and a criminal defendant) |
| SHAMEONYOU | "That wasn't nice!" and a hint to a trigram hidden in the asterisked answers |
| SHOOTINGSTAR | Meteor that might be wished upon ... and a literal hint to the asterisked clues' answers |
| THREEBEARS | Goldilocks and the ___, or a hint to the asterisked clues (10) |
| FINALSWEEK | Period for taking exams ... or a hint to the pattern shown in the last three or four letters of the asterisked answers |
| EXERCISEYOURRIGHT | Vote, say, and a clue to one side of the asterisked answers |
| NEVERMIND | 1991 Nirvana album, and a clue how to enter the asterisked answers (9) |
| SUIT | You might have to follow it; the ending to each of the asterisked answers (4) |
| SOUNDOUT | Pronounce, as syllables ... and what's spelled by the letters you hear from the asterisked answers' deleted syllables |
| MARS | Where to find the first parts of the asterisked answers |
| TRUNKS | The common connection shared by the answers to the asterisked clues |
| ESTEE | Girl's name that phonetically provides the initials to the answers to the asterisked clues |
| HOLDDEAR | Cherish, and what the asterisked answers do literally |
| OUTERWEAR | L.L. Bean offering, or a feature of the asterisked answers |
| CHESS | Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues |
| PAULREVERESRIDE | Longfellow classic containing a code that is represented within the answers to the asterisked Down c |
