| MISSINGINACTION | Meaning of the military designation MIA (7,2,6) |
| CIC | President's military designation, for short |
| RANK | Military designation such as general or major |
| ONEC | "Currently serving" military designation |
| HOLIDAYEPISODES | TV offerings where the cast might learn the true meaning of the season -- or go trick-or-treating |
| LEGBEFOREWICKET | The meaning of the dismissal lbw in cricket (3,6,6) |
| WORKINGFROMHOME | Meaning of the initials WFH, used to denote a form of employment (7,4,4) |
| MASTEROFSCIENCE | The meaning of the letters MSc after someone's name (6,2,7) |
| RESOURCELOCATOR | Uniform ____, meaning of the initialism URL, or a web address (8,7) |
| MYHUMBLEOPINION | In ___, meaning of the abbreviation IMHO in texting and other communication (2,6,7) |
| YOUONLYLIVEONCE | Meaning of the internet acronym YOLO, which became popular from 2012 (3,4,4,4) |
| RANKS | Military designations |
| INTERPRET | Explain the meaning of the lost printer meeting the extraterrestrial (9) |
| UNKNOT | Meaning of the French verb that's the root of "denouement" |
| ALLTIME | Greatest Of ___, the meaning of the acronym GOAT (3,4) |
| BEES | Insects studied by Karl von Frisch, the Austrian ethologist who first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance (4) |
| IRONY | In this language device, the real meaning of the words are concealed or contradicted by their literal meaning. |
| MANY | From the Latin: It's the meaning of the prefix in "multicolored" |
| QUIBBLE | From legal nuance to pun or paronomasia, today's meaning of the word ranges from carp and cavil triflingly to nit-pick to the point of absurdity (7) |
| CALLME | Meaning of the "thumb by the ear and pinkie by the lips" gesture |
