| RISINGSUN | Early-morning sight, or a hint to the word that turns up in 17-, 28- and 45-Across |
| TILE | Hard rocker's early morning sight |
| YES | Word that turns a proposal into an engagement |
| YUPPIE | Lentils served-up in 17 across to old materialist pro (6) |
| AEIOU | What's lined up in 17, 27, 44 and 56-Across |
| MASK | To the ancients, a "nightmare, spectre, witch"; to us, that which allows a beggar to dance with a king or a secret to stay hidden in plain sight; or, a disguise for a ball (4) |
| FALLINGSTAR | Meteor, and a hint to the word that descends in the starred clues' answers ... and this puzzle's grid |
| DRIFTWOOD | Beach debris, or a clue to the word that moves through 17-, 25-, 35- and 47- Across |
| GREASE | It's the word, it's the word that you heard, it's got a groove, it's got a meaning. It's the time, it's the place, it's the motion, it's the way we are feeling |
| STOCKSPLIT | Share increasing action, or a hint to the word that book- ends the starred answers |
| HAIRRAISING | *Eerie, and a hint to the word that progresses upward through the starred clues' answers |
| OPENSEASON | Period when criticism might pour in, and a hint to the words that bookend the starred clues' answers |
| IRS | American government agency that anagrams to the word that comes before "Lanka" in a country name: Abbr. |
| EATENALIVE | Mobbed by mosquitoes ... or a hint to each starred clue's answer, based on the word that surrounds it |
| ECHOLOCATION | Bat's navigation process or, when read as two words, feature within the answers to 20-, 28-, and 45- |
| HIDDENGEM | Description in many a travel guide, and a hint to a word concealed in 17-, 28- and 44-Across |
| OVER | ___head: and the word that can follow the 1st words of 20A., 38A., and 55A. |
| YELLOWJACKETS | Certain wasps, or the words that wrap around 17-, 23-, 48 and 57- Across? |
| THREEINAROW | What one needs to win the game found in 17-, 28- and 45-Across |
| TUNNEL | -- vision; loss of peripheral sight; or, a term for small- or single-mindedness (6) |
