| HEADFIRST | Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? |
| DATA | What can go on a drive |
| PERSEVERE | Go on each cut with energy (9) |
| BALLANDCHAIN | Old-time restraint for a prisoner ... or what can go after the respective halves of 18-, 26-, 35- and 49-Across |
| CORNEA | Painful growth on each part of the eye |
| UVEA | Part of spectrum impinging on each part of viewer (4) |
| PAPERTRAIL | What an auditor examines, or what either part of the answer to each of the starred clues can be |
| THATSAKEEPER | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| ITSAWHOLETHING | "Too complicated to explain," and a way to describe the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| DROPALINE | Say hi to in writing...or what to do to the first letter of each starred clue? |
| UMBRELLATERM | Expression that covers a broad category, or what is found at the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| OPENDOOR | Welcoming symbol ... or what each part of the answers to the six starred clues can do? |
| MARKMYWORDS | "Remember what I said!" ... and a hint to what can follow each part of the answers to starred clues |
| RUNNINGMATE | Vice presidential hopeful, and what the first part of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| BUILDUP | Create high expectations for, or an apt description of the first part of the answer to each starred clue |
| ENDOFLIFE | Death ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| GENETICMUTATION | Change studied by evolutionary biologists, or what can be found in the answer to each starred clue? |
| DEADHEAD | Jerry Garcia fan ... or what each part of the answers to the starred clues |
| BLACKANDWHITE | Clear-cut, and what each part of the answers to the starred clues can follow, respectively |
| DEADEND | Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue is? |
