| EGOCENTRIC | Like divas, and like the names at 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| MADEASCENE | Like divas, the playwright and the landscape painter often ___ |
| ELM | Tree "hugged" in the names at 17-, 27-, 43-, and 56-Across |
| SINGERS | Divas and birds |
| NORSEDEITY | Entity spelled by the fourth through seventh letters of each answer at 17-, 26-, and 45-Across |
| DESIST | Stop from giving the name at first (6) |
| TAUTOLOGICAL | Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-a-vis the bracketed languages |
| APT | Like the names of the track athletes Usain Bolt and Lisa Lightfoot |
| GIRLCRAZY | Like many a teen boy ... and like the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| PRELAW | Like some students at this university (and like the letters you need) |
| FABRIC | "And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers ..." (The Tempest) |
| AGELESS | Like someone who appears untouched by time, and like the answers to the starred clues? |
| PROMISSORYNOTES | Debtors' documents suggested by the sequence of the first words of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| ALLSHOOKUP | No.1 hit for the subject of the new biopic Elvis-and like the letters in ELVIS in one word of each theme entry |
| PROSODIC | Experts like certain poems - and like the study of versification |
| SEEMEAFTERCLASS | Ominous request from a teacher ... or a hint to the first words (and following letters!) of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| PLOTTWISTS | Literary devices in mysteries, and what the first four letters of 17-, 26-, and 43-Across are |
| ITSGOTLEGS | Surprised shout when a spot on the wall starts moving, and what can be said about 17-, 26-, and 43-Across |
| SCULPTURE | Art form in which the ends of 17-, 26- and 43-Across may be used |
| UNISEX | Like the names Casey and Jamie |
