| FIFTEENTHLETTER | Item missing in this puzzle's theme that's absent as well in the fill and clues |
| SEBASTIAN | Survivor of The Archers broadcast absent as ISIHAC's beginning |
| INADREAM | Remain uncertain about a Democrat that's absent-minded (2,1,5) |
| OUTOFTHEPICTURE | I fetch troupe that's absent (3,2,3,7) |
| TOOTHPASTE | Bathroom cleaner as well, in the old days (10) |
| ISLAND | Is left, as well, in the water (6) |
| ALSO | It appears as well in the original solution |
| ATTEND | Not be absent, as in school (6) |
| MUSIC | Gracie Fields sang, "You and the night and the ... fill me with flaming desire" |
| SCHEMA | In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crossword |
| ANI | Item missing in ths clue |
| TIE | Item missing in "business casual" |
| PLOT | Item missing in many action films |
| THIRDWORLD | Winner missing in this sphere in Latin America, perhaps (5,5) |
| BIFF | Sound of a punch [E] {I created this puzzle for Take Your Kids To Work Day in collaboration with my then-nine-year-old twins. Clues followed by an [S] were written by Sid, and clues followed by an [E] |
| GAS | The fill in "fill 'er up!" |
| IMAGE | Two of the Three Kings missing in this picture? |
| NONE | Quantity of our language's most common bigram in today's grid and clues |
| EYELESS | Unable to see ... or, when taken as a homophone, what today's puzzle answers and clues all are |
| BOUT | Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers |
