| WILL | Document the puzzles longest answers are all connected to |
| JAW | The chin, jowl and cheeks are all connected to this mandible part (3) |
| LIONHEARTED | "Brave" descriptor of the puzzle's longest answers |
| NOMANISANISLAND | Mainland/North Iona steamship's working and we're all connected |
| MIXEDGREENS | Simple salad ... and what the starts of the five other longest answers are? |
| RED | The starts of this puzzle's three longest answers are shades of it |
| SAWS | The starts of this puzzle's six longest answers are types of them |
| NINETOFIVEJOBS | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| KINDSOFNUMBERS | What the first words of this puzzle's eight longest answers are |
| FEEL | Hiding what you ___ (what the nine longest answers are doing) |
| ARGON | Noble gas, and a homophonic hint to how this puzzle's four longest answers are formed |
| MISPELLINGS | This puzzle's five longest answers are common ones |
| INTHREED | How this puzzle's nine longest answers are viewed? |
| WORD | Scrabble play, or, when parsed in three parts, a hint to the switch featured in this puzzle's longest answers |
| SOS | Mayday! (and the initials of this puzzle's longest answers) |
| TICS | Idiosyncrasies added to this puzzle's longest answers |
| EST | Guess, in brief (and what's been added to this puzzle's longest answers) |
| STOP | Word on a red sign, and, when parsed in three parts, a hint to this puzzle's longest answers |
| LIST | Santa's aid appended in this puzzle's longest answers |
| FASTBREAK | Basketball strategy, and a description of this puzzle's longest answers |