| ADDALITTLEPUNCH | Liven up, with "to" (and a hint to how 17-, 27- and 44-Across were created) |
| PEPUP | Liven up with new vigour (3,2) |
| PAININTHEBEHIND | Annoyance ... and a hint to how 17-, 26- and 44-Across are formed? |
| IXNAY | Slangy turndown, and a hint to how 17-, 22-, 32-, 47- and 51-Across are formed |
| IFIWEREYOU | Lead-in to a bit of advice, and a hint as to how 17-, 24-, 37- and 45-Across might arise |
| OHYOU | Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created |
| ACUTABOVE | Superior to, and a hint to the first letters in 3-, 28- and 9- |
| DROPTHEACT | "We're on to you!" (and a hint to how this puzzle's other four longest answers were created) |
| SOUPSUP | Adds horsepower to, and a hint to the starred answers' hidden words |
| SCOFF | Speak derisively, and a hint to how this puzzle's long answers were created |
| SWITCHHIT | Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created |
| STRIPTEASE | 1996 Demi Moore film ... and a hint to how four puzzle answers were created |
| SAWS | Hand tools with toothed blades used to cut wood with to and from movements |
| SHOOTOUT | Take a photo on holiday of what some cowboys came up with to settle an argument (5-3) |
| TAKINGNOTES | Creating study aids during a classroom lecture, and how seven long answers in this puzzle were created? |
| TRADESECRET | E.g. how 17 managed to call everywhere in street ___ and cared (sort of)? (5,6) |
| TOLERATE | Put up with; to endure; to suffer (8) |
| ENDURE | Put up with to the last. Rue having tied the knot (6) |
| CLONES | Organisms with identical genetic information to the organisms from which they were created (6) |
| SLICEDBREAD | Food that the "best thing" is compared to, and a description of this puzzle's second parted word |
