| LEADTIME | Let media broadcast what's needed to complete production? |
| UNCUT | Complete production of Hair is too long (5) |
| NIEMANN | Albert ___, German tenor who played Siegmund in the first complete production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth in 1876 |
| ALLIN | Poker phrase ... or what's needed to complete the answers to |
| ABITONTHESIDE | Extramarital partner, and what's needed to complete entries for asterisked clues (1,3,2,3,4) |
| DOWNINFRONT | "I can't see through you!," and what's needed to complete 17-, 24-, 33-, and 45-Across? |
| EARWAX | Cockney's to listen to the hits broadcast: what's to stop him? |
| DEMATERIALISE | Earliest media broadcast to disappear |
| DIRECTION | "Apt" geographical element needed to complete the answers to 10 of this puzzle's clues |
| LOVEISALLAROUND | "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme, or a hint to the start needed to complete 12 answers in this puzzle |
| GET | Word needed to complete five answers in this puzzle |
| GUARD | Word needed to complete this puzzle's theme |
| MISSINGLINK | Part needed to complete the chain |
| GIBBET | It's no longer needed to complete a sentence (6) |
| TURNROUND | Time needed to complete a task |
| GOOFF | Explode, and words needed to complete the four starred answers |
| NUMBERONE | Words needed to complete four puzzle answers |
| POPUPADS | Online annoyances needed to complete five puzzle answers |
| ALL | Amount needed to complete a set |
| GRAND | £1,000 needed to complete Jeremy Clarkson's tour (5) |
