| FOOLAROUND | Engage in some horseplay ... or a hint to the words spelled out in the circles |
| METHODOFLOVE | Words spelled out in a similarly-titled Hall & Oates hit |
| MOUNTAINTOP | Peak, and a synonym of the word spelled out in the circled peaks' highest points |
| SKIPPING | With 59-Across, lakeside activity ... or a hint to the words spelled across the fifth, eighth and 11th rows of the completed grid |
| EQUATORIAL | Match includes a riot breaking out in the circle (10) |
| NATURAL | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| ROMP | A bit of horseplay or return made by politician (4) |
| ROUGHHOUSE | Horseplay, or unfinished dwelling? |
| ALLCAPS | Blog comment format usually interpreted as the word spelled by eight aptly circled puzzle letters |
| TOMFOOLERY | Romeo to fly abroad for some horseplay (10) |
| ANTICIPATE | Expect I will go before head after some horseplay (10) |
| REIN | It may stop some horseplay |
| IRS | Org. concerned with the word spelled by the starts of 18-, 24-, 36-, 54- and 59-Across |
| SILENCEISGOLDEN | Proverb espousing the virtue of staying quiet, and a hint to a word spelled out by six letters in this puzzle |
| SHARKINFESTEDWATERS | Dangerous area for those in the top row of this puzzle, and a hint to the words under the six black tins in the grid |
| HIDDENGEM | Masterpiece waiting to be found ... or a hint to the words in the circled letters |
| LIPPSINC | Tar Heel St. city named for a part of the mouth with a trident-shaped Greek letter written on it? ... or, when parsed differently, the band with the No. 1 hit spelled out in the circled squares |
| ICECREAM | *Foundation ingredient of a treat built upward in the answers to starred clues and spelled downward in the circles |
| REVOLVINGDOOR | Entrance of a sort, and a hint to the progression in the circles |
| TENTOONEODDS | Big payout potential ... or a hint to the words in the shaded squares (and the clue numbers on which they begin!) |
