| SETLIST | Itemized concert songs in playing order - and what all the words in answers to starred clues comprise |
| WASHBASIN | Sink used to be stylish, compris-ing a special sort of graphite (9) |
| THEXFACTOR | Hard-to-define element, or a hint to what can precede each last word in answers to starred clues |
| MOUTHED | Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues |
| PALINDROMES | What all the words on the outer rows and columns of this puzzle are |
| ENCORES | Concert songs that happen after the band first walks offstage |
| OUTOFSORTS | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| SAN | Word that forms a city when combined with the first names in answers to starred clues |
| REARRANGED | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| OUTOFORDER | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| NOBS | Slang term for noggins; others are found in answers to starred clues |
| SING | What all the guests get together to do when it's time to cut the cake |
| NEWYEAR | 2024 opposed to 2023, and what is cryptically seen in answers to asterisked clues (3,4) |
| SHADESOFGREY | What there are fifty of in a book title, and appear in answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| WENTSOFT | Grew sentimental, or what the vowels did in answers to the paired clues |
| LEWISCARROLL | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| SWIFTIES | Fans who might know all the words to "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" |
| LOGOPHILES | Do they love all the words in this clue? (10) |
| VOCAB | All the words in a language, for short |
| MONOSYLLABIC | Terse, like all the words in this clue? (12) |
