| TWODRINKMAX | Limit at the bar, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| WRITTENINSTONE | Firmly fixed, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| LETTUCEWRAP | Low-carb lunch, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| WEATHERMAN | He could be interested in the bar and a glass (10) |
| EVADE | Avoid a US state, without limit, at the end (5) |
| SPEEDS | Drive over the limit at the end of May when targets are quick (6) |
| SERVES | Works at The Bar and does a job for the jury (6) |
| SHOUT | Turn at the bar and cry |
| ANDANTINO | Instruction that's for use at the bar and not in a brawl (9) |
| PRIZEINSIDE | Cracker Jack extra, and what the answers with circles have |
| DOUBLEORNOTHING | High-stakes gamble, and how the answers with circles can be read |
| INNERDEMONS | Personal struggles, and what the answers with circles have |
| SOAKUPTHESUN | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| DOUBLEHEADER | Stadium marathon, or what the eight answers with circles gained individually, and what they gained collectively |
| OUTMUSCLED | Overpowered ... or how the Across answers with circles might be described? |
| HIDDENGEMS | What the long Across answers with circles have |
| EVENLYMATCHED | Comparable in skill, like each symmetrical pair of answers with circles? |
| CLOSINGTIME | What's after last call at a bar, and a theme hint |
| MEHDEINCANADA | Like all the answers with pairs of circled letters, punnily |
| RATCHETED | Fitted with a toothed bar and a pawl |
