| THREEALARM | Fairly spicy, as chili (and like this puzzle, literally, based on the ends of 17-, 23- and 50-Across |
| TREELINED | Like a shady boulevard ... and like this puzzle, in terms of its 12 border answers |
| PARFORTHECOURSE | As expected, or, golfwise, a hint to numbers found in 17-, 23- and 50-Across |
| EXTREMELYONLINE | Like someone who spends too much time on the internet, and like this puzzle's circled letters? |
| TYPEWRITER | Where the ends of 17-, 23-, and |
| FSTOP | Camera lens setting, and a feature of both ends of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57- Across? |
| FIFTHWHEEL | Based on the ends of 17-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across, unwanted thing that this puzzle lacks |
| LAMPS | Reading aids, whose parts include the ends of 17-, 23-, 45- and 57- Across |
| CLUELESS | Like five answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively |
| JOINEDATTHEHIP | Inseparable ... like five pairs of phrases in this puzzle, literally |
| DONETOAT | Like the desserts in this puzzle, literally? |
| UTTERLYCLUELESS | Lost, like three answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively |
| LONGWINDED | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| SEESAW | What is a children's game in which participants ride up and down on the ends of a plank (6) |
| SUN | What the theme answers in this puzzle literally have in common |
| ELECTRICCIRCUIT | What the perimeter answers in this puzzle literally create |
| DROPSTHEMIC | *Emphatically ends a performance ... or what this puzzle literally does |
| ANAGRAMMATIC | For this and like this I'm Magna Carta (12) |
| AGLETS | What are the plastic tubes on the ends of shoelaces? (6) |
| TIPTOE | Walk on the ends of the feet (6) |
