| DODGINGTHEDRAFT | Option for 1-A's who 59-Across |
| UTURN | Option for one who's lost |
| GOINGOFFTHEGRID | Option for cable customers who 59-Across |
| CITYHALLWEDDING | Option for fiancées who 59-Across |
| ELECTRICIAN | Test subject #1 perceives 1 as brown, 2 as red, 8 as gray; maybe he works as an ... |
| SIRORACLE | In 1.1, Gratiano is speaking to Antonio and trying to bolster him with humour when he says, "Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am ___ ___, And when I ope my lips let no dog b |
| POOLTABLE | Test subject #2 perceives 1 as yellow, 3 as red, 8 as black; maybe she owns a ... |
| THESAMEOLDSTORY | Looks familiar to Oedipus the King, for one, as we've heard it all before as usual! (3,4,3,5) |
| OXBRIDGE | Steerforth for one, as it were, in academia (8) |
| LETTER | I, for one, as landlord (6) |
| HOUDINI | Escapologist Erik Weisz gained fame as who? (7) |
| BOY | Singer George O'Dowd is better known as who? (___ George) (3) |
| STING | Singer Gordon Sumner is better known as who? (5) |
| LEMAIRE | Jacques of the Hockey Hall of Fame with 9 Stanley Cup wins: 8 as a Montreal Canadiens player, and 1 as the Coach of the New Jersey Devils |
| PICKET | Choose European team's No 1 as striker (6) |
| GOOD | Carol character from 1 as of old (4,4,9) |
| DRAFTBOARD | Assigner of 4-Fs and 1-As |
| COMPLICATE | Transform from 27 to 1 as unusually polemic act (10) |
| LAMMAS | August 1 as a feast day |
| ARABICNUMERAL | 1, as opposed to I (6,7) |
