| ROOM | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |
| TIERCE | Group of three found in prettier ceramics |
| THETUBE | Set in a den, slangily ... or, initially, what can be found in each answer to a starred clue |
| HIDDENBALLTRICK | Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue |
| NELLY | A large petrel 3 found in New York (5) |
| TRILOGY | Series of three found between the covers (7) |
| RAILSPLITTER | Abraham Lincoln nickname, and a hint to a hidden word in each answer to a starred clue |
| MIDMORNING | Coffee break time ... and a hint to an abbreviation aptly placed in each answer to a starred clue |
| INNERCIRCLE | Small, influential group ... and a hint to the word hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| GOLDENHORDE | 13th/14th-century Mongol Empire region ... and an elemental hint to what's found twice in each answer to a starred clue |
| THATHURTS | Pained expression, and a hint to two cries hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| GREEKLETTER | One spans two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| KICKSTARTER | Foot-operated mechanism on a motorcycle, and what the first word in each answer to a starred clue ca |
| LETTER | Both words in each answer to a starred clue begin and end with the same one |
| CRAZYMIXEDUPKID | Troubled youth literally hiding in each answer to a starred clue |
| ANIMALHOUSE | 1978 misfit comedy ... and something hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| ROUGHHOUSE | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| FIREANDRAIN | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| WORLDLEADER | Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue |
| ITSMINE | Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it int |
