| DOESTHESPLITS | Performs a gymnastics move requiring flexibility ... or enters answers into this puzzle's four shaded parts |
| VAULT | What can be an arched roof, a strongroom or a gymnastic move? (5) |
| SPLITS | Gymnastics moves requiring flexible legs |
| IRRUPTS | Angry purist locks door at foundation or enters forcibly? (7) |
| FILLIN | Take over the job, temporarily, and put answers into crossword? |
| LITHENESS | Flexibility or slimness (9) |
| LIMBO | Bring leg round during dance requiring flexibility |
| FINGERROLL | Hoops move requiring digital dexterity |
| THEWORM | Dance move requiring upper body and core strength |
| SOMERSAULT | Mortal uses complicated move, requiring physical skill |
| KAY | Woman's name, or a letter that leads into this puzzle's theme |
| BACKTOFRONT | How a shirt might mistakenly be worn, or a hint on how to enter answers to asterisked clues (11) |
| PHANTOMTHREAD | 2017 film about an obsessive tailor, or a hint to finding the word that's "sewn" into this puzzle |
| GOINGBALD | Becoming follically challenged, or a hint for how to enter answers to asterisked clues (9) |
| HAM | Traditional baked Easter entree, and what's baked into this puzzle's theme answers |
| BACKWARD | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| TORPOR | Frogs can either hibernate or enter a state of physical or mental inactivity called ___ |
| BILES | ___ II, eponymous gymnastics move featuring two backflips and a triple twist |
| RIO | Host inserted into this puzzle's theme answers |
| RBI | Stat inserted into this puzzle's long Across answers |
