| SPAMFILTER | Email service, and a hint to how to interpret the starred answers |
| QUIETCAR | Place for Amtrak passengers to unwind ... and a hint to how to interpret eight puzzle answers |
| OILCHANGE | Jiffy Lube service, and a hint to the start of the answers to starred clues |
| BEHINDA | With 63-Across, where some journalism is located ... or how to interpret the ends of 20-, 30- and 44-Across vis-a-vis the shaded squares |
| RIALTO | Name used at times for a Milan-Venice service and a Venice-Paris service (6) |
| UPTOAPOINT | Partly, and a hint to how to read the circled letters |
| DRINKUP | Bar exhortation ... and a hint to how to answer five puzzle clues |
| STOPMAKINGSENSE | No longer be comprehensible ... and, with its first word divided in three parts, a hint to how to read this puzzle's title |
| BOOKDROPS | Places to return library materials, and a hint to how the authors in four Down clues help complete the answers to the starred clues |
| IMOUT | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| YOURADHERE | Words on an empty billboard, and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| HEAVEHO | Dismissal, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues were derived |
| AAS | Smallish batteries, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues are formed |
| HELIUM | Light element, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues have been inflated |
| CORPORATEMERGER | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| FAKE | Deceive... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed? |
| OUT | Deceive... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed? |
| OMNIDIRECTIONAL | Like the answers to eight starred clues ... and a hint as to how to fill them in |
| LEFTRIGHT | Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in |
| OHYOU | Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created |
