| PERFORMER | Entertainer, or a three-part hint to the shift behind 17-, 25-, 37- and 49-Across |
| FLIESSOUTH | Migrates for the winter, and a hint to the shift in the starred answers |
| HORSEHAIR | Upholstery material I share or shift behind back of couch (9) |
| FORTYNINERS | Old rush participants ... or a three-part hint to what can be found in this puzzle's grid or clues |
| STINGY | Penny-pinching ... or a three-part hint to two outer and two inner letters of each starred clue's answer |
| TRITE | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| GRANDPA | Certain patriarch, or a three-part hint to 17- or 59-Across |
| COVERBANDS | Tribute groups, or a four-part hint to the starred clues' answers |
| GRANDMA | Certain matriarch, or a three-part hint to 24- or 48-Across |
| CODESWITCH | What a bilingual speaker may do in different situations...or a three-part theme hint |
| PANDA | World Wildlife Fund logo ... or a three-word hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| RANDO | Total stranger, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| STOMP | Walk heavily, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| ATHENS | Capital of Greece, or a three word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| ORATORIO | Story set to music or a three-part composition about love (8) |
| MOVER | Lug nut? (and a two-part hint to this puzzle's four starred clues) |
| TRIANGLE | Sonorous instrument struck with a beater to sound like a bell; a frame used in pool and snooker; or, a three-sided polygon (8) |
| RAFTERS | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| CHANGEOFHEART | Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| MINDTRANSFER | Hypothetical upload of a person's memories into another brain ... or a three-piece hint to the substitutions in this puzzle's third row? |
