| LIGHTING | Illuminating start of 18 across in golf (8) |
| STEALING | Helping oneself to what others have at start of 18 across in Government (8) |
| COLDOPEN | Sketch that kicks off "SNL" ... or a phonetic hint to the start of 18-, 29-, 37- or 49-Across |
| GEORGIAN | What one might call 18 across in Atlanta, perhaps? (8) |
| RASHAD | Phylicia ___ (costar of 18 Across in 41 Across) |
| PDIDDY | Costar of 18 Across in 41 Across (init. & wd.) |
| CLEESE | John ___ (costar of 18 Across in 46 Across) |
| MICHAEL | Actor Madsen (costar of 18 Across in 46 Across) |
| BATH | Appropriate room for the sequence comprised of the starts of 18-, |
| PLASMA | Element in start of 18 across to bully pal's mother (6) |
| HARDSEA | Body of water that's difficult to cross? (start of 18-Across) |
| NONI | Anika ___ Rose (costar of 18 Across in 34 Down) |
| ALPHABET | Series whose first seven members are sung to the starts of 18-, 26-, 41- and 54-Across |
| APRESSKI | Social activity on the slopes ... or a hint to the starts of 18-, 23-, 40- and 54-Across |
| SMARTSET | Fashionable group ... and what the starts of 18-, 21-, 38- and 52-Across form |
| PROSANDCONS | Both sides of an argument ... and what can literally precede the starts of 18-, 24-, 53- and 60-Acro |
| CARELESSTALK | Conversation after start of 18 across costs lives according to British wartime propaganda (8,4) |
| THECRIMEA | At the start of 18 across, it's an offence to contact a place in the Ukraine (3,6) |
| SELFEDUCATED | Did one's exercises on one's own at the start of 18 across - how informed is that? (4-8) |
| EYES | What the starts of 18-, 27-, 43- and |