| SIXPACKOFBEER | Party purchase ... or a hint to each circled letter set |
| WHEELOF | With 37-Across, card in a tarot deck, and a hint to each circled letter set |
| WRAPPINGPAPER | Holiday purchase ... or a hint to the circled letters |
| ITSALONGSTORY | "We could be here for a bit...," and a hint to each circled word |
| OPENINGMOVE | Queen's gambit, e.g., and a hint to each circled imperative |
| POINTOFORDER | Parliamentary rules violation ... or what each circled-letter quartet represents? |
| APIECEOFCAKE | "Nothing to it!," and what each circled letter literally is? |
| HAM | Deli purchase, or a show-off on the stage |
| EPISTLE | Letter set pile in tatters (7) |
| LCA | Letter set, abbr |
| SLICED | With 38-Across, deli purchase ... or a description of the answer to 17-, 26-, 47- or 55-Across |
| RECEIPT | Action of obtaining something; a counterfoil, proof of purchase or quittance; or, an old word for a culinary formula in cookery (7) |
| RSAILSPLITTER | Another nickname for Old Abe ... or a description of the circled letter? |
| TIMESHARE | Vacation lodging purchase ... or an arrangement between the two halves of the answer to each starred |
| 6PACK | Beer purchase, or set of abs |
| TRADES | Purchases or sells goods or stocks or bonds. (6) |
| PARTIILAM | End of a trilogy, and a phrase that hints at each circled word when entering it in the Down direction |
| TRIMTHETREE | Do a Christmas activity, or a hint to each set of circled letters |
| SPIN | With the circled word in the grids center, what each circled word is? |
| TURNINGPOINTS | Decisive moments (or what the first and third letters of each circled segment are) |
