| PUGNIREYWAL | Getting counsel, colloquially ... or what a solver of this puzzle is doing? |
| DUMBBELL | Prop for Arnold, or what a solver may feel like after making an obvious goof? |
| ADVOCATE | Recommend getting counsel to act for one in court (8) |
| WHATSTHEENDGAME | Question asked by a project planner ... or by a solver of this puzzle, maybe |
| NAMEDROPPER | Status-seeking sort ... or a solver of this puzzle, initially? |
| LETMIATAHERE | Outburst from a solver of this puzzle? |
| NORMCORE | Fashion trend featuring average-looking clothing, colloquially, or what 20-, 28-, 34-, and 52-Across each have |
| CSUITE | Top execs, colloquially ... or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically? |
| CRACKINGTHECODE | Arriving at an "Aha!" moment . . . or what this puzzle is doing vis-a-vis its circled letters |
| SKELETON | A solver of a ____ crossword must work out most of the grid |
| PUZZLER | A solver of crosswords, riddles, teasers, ticklers etc; or, any enigmatic person, problem, situation or thing (7) |
| WEFOUNDAFEWBUGS | Cautionary feedback given to programmers ... or what test solvers of this puzzle said about 18, 24, |
| HAPPYBDAY | "Best wishes for your once-a-year celebration!" (and a wish for solvers of this puzzle) |
| BOXINGROUNDS | Three-minute periods (or what this puzzle is doing) |
| YOU | The solver of this puzzle in difficulty ought to do it |
| QANDASESSION | What solvers of this puzzle are taking part in? |
| WHYYOULITTLE | What a solver might growl after catching on to this puzzle's theme? |
| ISEAWHATYOUDIDTHERE | What a solver might tell me after figuring out this puzzle's theme |
| GETSTHEREDOUT | Visine slogan, and what a solver does to make sense of the starred clues |
| WADE | A ford colloquially; or, a laborious plod or wearisome welter through said shallows or anything else (4) |
