| BADGUY | Hit song by the 1-Across winner whose name is spelled out by the final three letters of 21-, 25-, 47- and 52-Across |
| NAUSEA | Feeling that can be caused by the final three letters of this answer |
| MACARENA | Song by the #1 band on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders" |
| ARUBA | Caribbean island with the same final three letters as another |
| WOOD | With 68-Across, a hint to the ends of 21-, 25-, 45- and 52-Across |
| LASTLEG | End of a relay race (final 3 letters + ...) |
| IDLERUMOR | Bit of gossip (final 3 letters + ...) |
| CRUSHON | Have a thing for (final 3 letters + ...) |
| DENNIS | Price of 21 25 and 4 down was wrong returned (6) |
| MOTHERTERESA | 1 across winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 (6,6) |
| ARGO | Best Picture 1 Across winner for 2012 |
| KEVINBACON | Actor whose name is spelled out by the letters between six degrees in this puzzle |
| SHORTSTORY | Work such as "The Purloined Letter" (whose author's name is spelled out by this puzzle's purloined letters) |
| ORGAN | Vital thing in the body, an example of which is spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's tripled words |
| NEWYEAR | An apt one is spelled out by combining the first two letters of nine Across answers in this puzzle |
| THEHURTLOCKER | Oscar-winning film whose Oscar-winning director is spelled out by the letters cutting the circled Oscar-winning directors |
| STU | Guy whose name is spelled out when reciting the alphabet |
| BAKEOFF | Short name of the cookery competition filmed in a tent in Welford Park for the final three series (4,3) |
| ANDERSTORP | Swedish venue that saw the final three wins of Tuevo Lansivuori's career, the last two occurring on the same day! (10) |
| LLAMA | Mammal whose name is spelled using only the letters of "mammal" |
