| DONTGETMEWRONG | I want you to understand it may be men got Ted |
| TWIG | Understand it may have leaves on it (4) |
| QUEENS | Yet on board they may be men (6) |
| SKIPPER | Ship's captain, informally, and a hint to help you to understand five answers in this puzzle |
| IMPLYING | Giving you to understand he's a naughty child (8) |
| ACTION | (and 3 Down) A certain ploy perhaps that helps you to understand what happened (6,6) |
| NERD | "You're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a ___. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an assho |
| TAKEITFROMME | I want you to have this, you'd better believe it! (4,2,4,2) |
| THEWRESTLER | 2008 movie with the line "I want you to give this to your little guy. It's a Randy the Ram action figure." (2 wds.) |
| OHNO | Commodores ballad that starts "I want you to want me" |
| PEACHTRICK | "I Want You to Want Me" band that's fond of schnapps? |
| CHEAPTRICK | "I Want You to Want Me" band |
| INCOLOR | '77 "I Want You to Want Me" Cheap Trick album |
| MAR | I Want You to be Happy Day mo. |
| CHEAP | Band who had a 1977 hit with I Want You to Want Me, ----- Trick (5) |
| EVICTED | I've got Ted to accept a hundred and you're put out by it (7) |
| MUTTERING | Get the merciless one to speak and it is hard to understand it (9) |
| RIOTED | Disturbed the peace or I got Ted to do it (6) |
| ELEVATED | I got quite a lift when we got Ted to leave! (8) |
| EVIDENT | It's obvious I've got Ted to go North |
