| THATSALAUGH | Idiom equivalent to "Yeah, right!", or a sound found in each of the starred entries |
| THELOSTARK | Object of a quest by the title character; it may be found in each of the starred entries |
| OTC | Available without a prescription, shortly; found in each of the starred entries |
| RST | Letter sequence suggested by the puzzle title, and found in each of the starred entries |
| AREYOUWITHME | "Get it so far?" or what can be found in each of the starred entries, phonetically |
| DELI | Synonym for the puzzle's title; it may be found in each of the starred entries |
| DAP | A bob, bounce or skip, as in a fishing fly on the surface of water; or, a sound made when bouncing, running or skipping in plimsolls (3) |
| WAFT | Word, similar to a weaving term, for an aroma, knotted signal flag, nonchalant wave or shoo with a hand, puff of smoke or a sound, all gently floating in or carried by the air (4) |
| LAND | Touch down; or, a word to follow the second part of each of the starred entries |
| MURDERWEAPONS | Clue(do) "clues" - there's one to be found in each of the starred answers |
| FIRSTDRAFT | Preliminary version of a writing composition ... or how to describe the beginning of the answers to each of the starred clues? |
| INNERGODDESS | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| TAKE | A synonym for the puzzle's title; it may precede the first word in each of the starred entries |
| EGGS | What the puzzle's title refers to; each of the starred entries holds a place where they might be found |
| APPROPRIATE | A synonym for the first word in each of the starred entries, as well as for the puzzle's title |
| STROKE | Touch of a paintbrush; or, a sound of a ticking clock (6) |
| HORSERACE | What the puzzle's title refers to; the first parts of the starred entries, in clue order, give the order of the top three finishers |
| HOST | Emcee: the circled letters of the starred entries, in clue order, spell out the name of the late star of the puzzle's title show |
| EVERYTHING | "The works": the last words of the starred entries, in clue order, provide a clue to a similar phrase |
| AVENUE | Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) |
