| PROMISSORYNOTES | Debtors' documents suggested by the sequence of the first words of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| IOUS | Debtors' documents |
| FACTIOUS | Divisive bit of info on debtor's documents |
| KIDFRIENDLY | Suitable for the whole family, or an apt description of the first words of the answers to the starre |
| MIXEDFRUIT | Sweet snack, and a description of the first words of the starred answers |
| MIXEDGREENS | Salad choice, and a description of the first words of the starred clues' answers |
| DOUBLEPLAYS | Baseball coups, and a hint to the homophonic relationship in the sequence of first words in 18-, 24- |
| ITSINTHEBAG | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the sta |
| SWINGSET | Playground equipment ... or a description of the first words of the starred clues? |
| FUELROD | Homer throws one out the window in the title sequence of "The Simpsons" |
| RICHARDOFYORK | First three words of a well-known acronym for the sequence of colours in a rainbow (7,2,4) |
| SEEMEAFTERCLASS | Ominous request from a teacher ... or a hint to the first words (and following letters!) of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| PLOTTWISTS | Literary devices in mysteries, and what the first four letters of 17-, 26-, and 43-Across are |
| AFTERHOURS | Open past normal closing time, and where the starts of 17-, 26-, and 47-, can be found |
| MARGESCHARGES | Items on a checkout receipt, in the opening sequence of "The Simpsons"? (2 wds.) |
| INNERVOICES | One's toughest critics, often, and, literally, three different words hidden in 21-, 26- and 43-Acros |
| ONTOGENESIS | The sequence of events involved in the development of an individual organism |
| SMALL | Opposite of the first word of the *clue answers |
| DOH | Exclamation heard in the opening sequence of "The Simpsons" |
| TRAIN | The sequence of events in the wake of (5) |