| TREELINED | Like a shady boulevard ... and like this puzzle, in terms of its 12 border answers |
| ARTY | Like this puzzle, in a way |
| WALLEYE | Minnesota's state fish, and a hint to all 12 border answers in this puzzle |
| OUTSKIRTSOFTOWN | Border area, which contains a hint to solving this puzzle's 12 border answers |
| THREEALARM | Fairly spicy, as chili (and like this puzzle, literally, based on the ends of 17-, 23- and 50-Across |
| VALUTA | European term relating to the value of a currency expressed in terms of its rate of exchange with another currency |
| GREENAUDIT | An assessment of a business in terms of its impact on the environment (5,5) |
| ECOTOURISM | Seeing the world in terms of its importance to the environment? Find love in unexpected cruise to Malin Head! (10) |
| SIDECAR | Cognac-and-Cointreau drink, and what each of this puzzle's border answers is |
| SURROUNDSOUND | Home theater feature, and a hint to this puzzle's 10 border answers |
| GOINGFORTHEGOLD | Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 as |
| IMAGINARYNUMBER | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| LIVINGONTHEEDGE | Engaging in an adventurous lifestyle, as suggested by this puzzle's border answers |
| LOWPH | Characteristic of acid, and of this puzzle, in a way |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| TOPHATS | Items sported by the answers to the starred clues ... and something depicted in this puzzle in more |
| HEMISPHERES | What our grid reveals in border is in this puzzle, in message added (11) |
| LITTLEKID | Child represented in six squares in this puzzle (in either of two different ways) |
| ANAGRAMMATIC | For this and like this I'm Magna Carta (12) |
| STONEWALL | Historic inn commemorated during Pride Month, as suggested by this puzzle's border answers |