| DETACHEDHOUSES | Homes that don't share walls with other homes, and a description of this puzzle's third parted word |
| IGLOOS | Homes that don't need air conditioning |
| SILOS | Business units that don't share information, metaphorically |
| DECORS | Hoda, and other home furnishing styles of the 70s |
| 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? |
| OMAN | Nation whose currency has been hiked up to this puzzle's third row |
| STOCKSPLIT | Wall Street action, or what can be found in this puzzle's 3rd, 5th, 8th and 11th rows? |
| DIVIDEDHIGHWAY | Route with lanes of opposing traffic separated by a barrier, and a description of this puzzle's fourth parted word |
| SLICEDBREAD | Food that the "best thing" is compared to, and a description of this puzzle's second parted word |
| CRACKEDWISE | Made sarcastic remarks, and a description of this puzzle's first parted word |
| BROKENHEART | Metaphor for great sadness, and a description of this puzzle's fifth parted word |
| TORNCURTAIN | 1966 Hitchcock film set in East Germany, and a description of this puzzle's sixth parted word |
| MUMSTHEWORD | "Don't share this with other people!": 3 wds. (Theme answer: The first word of this answer is a plural term for certain parents) |
| ESCALADE | Act of storming a castle by means of scaling its walls with ladders (8) |
| HALFTIMBERED | Having walls with a wooden frame and a brick or plaster filling (4-8) |
| HARDEDGED | Gritty ... and a description of this puzzle, which is also a hint to completing eight answers |
| PEBBLEDASHING | Covering external walls with a finish of small stones embedded in plaster (13) |
| PEBBLEDASH | A method of coating external walls with small stones embedded in plaster (10) |
| HOLIDAY | The - Christmas movie set between a large LA home and a quaint rural cottage in England (7) |
| PATBOONE | American singer, actor and writer whose 1950s hit singles included I'll Be Home and A Wonderful Time Up There |
