| BOBSUPANDDOWN | Moves like a buoy in the ocean ... or a hint to the circled parts of this puzzle? |
| BOB | Move up and down like a buoy in the ocean |
| MIDWEST | What the circled parts of this puzzle comprise |
| BOBS | Moves like a buoy |
| BREAKINGWAVES | Common sight in the ocean, or what this puzzle is doing in the circled letters of 17-, 23-, 32-, and 40-Across |
| BACKLOADS | Postpones until final stages, as contract costs, and a hint to the circled parts |
| ITGOESUPANDDOWN | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| EXTRAPOINT | Touchdown follower [a hint to the circled part's place may be found in 110-Down's clue] |
| CENTRAL | With 68-Across, the circled part of this crossword |
| SUDOKU | With 67-Across, what the circled part of this crossword represents |
| BEACHFRONT | Property along the ocean or a hint to the starts of 18-, 23-,36- and 47-Across |
| LOOKONTHEBRIGHTSIDE | Be hopeful, heading for buoy in focus to starboard |
| SEABREEZE | A gentle coastal zephyr, blowing inland from the ocean; or, a cocktail of vodka mixed with the juice of cranberries and grapefruit (3,6) |
| SEASCAPE | Painting of the ocean or shore such as Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, Monet's Impression, Sunrise or Turner's The fighting Temeraire (8) |
| TIDE | Word, from "era, period, season, time", for the predictable pulse, watery rhythm or regular ebb and flow of the ocean or sea that turns like clockwork, four times in a lunar day (4) |
| ROAR | Sound of the ocean or a lion |
| SEETHELIGHT | Understand (and a hint to both parts of this puzzle's answers to starred clues) |
| SEAWAY | Any regular route used by ships; a rough or heavy ocean; or, a vessel's progress through the waves (6) |
| REUNION | French island in the Indian Ocean or a gathering of former friends (7) |
| INTERCHANGEABLE | Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid |
