| MIDDLEMAN | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| SCRAP | Fight may be cut out and booked (5) |
| MUSTARD | What must be cut to reach the required level? |
| PIZZA | First article to be cut out of square dish |
| ASP | Snake that you must banish from eight answers to make sense of their clues |
| STENCIL | Client's avant-garde decoration? One must be cut out for it (7) |
| FRETWORK | Twerk for dancing? This must be cut out |
| DOUBLE | Word that must precede 17-, 19-, 34-, 55-, and 58-Across to make sense of their clues |
| AIRDROP | Share from phone to phone, or what you must do to this grid seven times for the answers to make sense |
| RIPPEDABS | Many a gymgoer's goal ... or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| NOEL | Christmas season... or a phonetic hint to how the starred clues must be read in order to make sense of their answers |
| TWO | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| ODDONESOUT | Misfits... or a hint to which letters to remove from the starred entries to make sense of their second clues |
| CUTRATE | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| FINALCUT | Released version, and what can be added to the first words of the starred answers to make hair-dos |
| IBEFOREE | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| CAMEO | It's a gem of a role actor may be cut out for (5) |
| TAKEAKNEE | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| APPENDICES | Writer's additions that may be cut out in the theatre (10) |
| EXCISABLE | May be cut out (9) |
