| INVISIBLEMAN | HG Wells titular character, or the missing element that could reconstruct the original phrases of 20-, 36-, and 43-Across |
| SHAPER | Person who forms original phrase (6) |
| DRAMA | Genre of television production such as Midsomer Murders, Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall or The Missing (5) |
| ARSENIC | Catherine's replaced the missing element |
| RHODIC | Relating to metallic element that could be found in orchid |
| RED | Kate Mulgrew's "Orange Is the New Black" character (or the character's hair color) |
| PRO | With 4- and 7-Across, both sides ... or the missing starts for all the remaining Across answers |
| TRACY | "30 Rock" character, or the first name of his portrayer |
| APE | Grape ___ (cartoon character or the strain of weed named after him) |
| SELENIUM | Element that could be unseemA-liest, not established (8) |
| WORLDS | The realism of Orson Welles' radio version of HG Wells' The War Of The ..., the story of a Martian i |
| WREATH | Reconstruct the war memorial for the dead (6) |
| LINES | The telling phrases of the boxing reporter? (5,5) |
| PUNCH | The telling phrases of the boxing reporter? (5,5) |
| QUEENOFPUDDINGS | Missing element of DESSTS or AFTS? (5,2,8) |
| CHERRY | A cerise "gean" that is sweet and juicy but with a short fruiting season, hence representative in various phrases of something desirable or pleasant (6) |
| CHIASMUS | Rhetorical device by which word-order is reversed between a pair of phrases of clauses (8) |
| REMODEL | Modify and reconstruct the house. (7) |
| PRESTO | Quickly reconstruct the poster (6) |
| OPTED | Chose to reconstruct the depot (5) |
