| PENNYANTE | Picayune, and a hint to where the "common cent" appears in this puzzle's long answers |
| TAXMAN | Which Beatles song, penned by George Harrison, includes the lyrics, 'Should five per cent appear too small, Be thankful I don't take it all'? (6) |
| OPERA | Penny appears in old-time musical work |
| BROKENCODES | Cryptographers' successes (and what can be found in the circles in this puzzle's long answers) |
| AEIOU | Common sequence, each member of which appears exactly once in this puzzle's long answers |
| OZONE | Triatomic gas in a thinning layer ... and, symbolically, what appears in this puzzle's four longest |
| BIG | It can precede each word in this puzzle's long answers |
| SCOFF | Speak derisively, and a hint to how this puzzle's long answers were created |
| SAW | A kind of one appears in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| ASTERISK | * (And by the way, her name appears in this puzzle 16 times) |
| CPAS | Filing aids hiding in this puzzle's long answers |
| IPOS | Investment opportunities hiding in this puzzle's long answers |
| TWOHUNDREDFIFTY | It's hidden in this puzzle's long answers |
| NEWS | Television staple whose four letters are abbreviations for words hidden in this puzzle's long answer |
| SCOUT | Provide recon, and another hint to this puzzle's long answers |
| NOUSE | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| MAMAS | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| PAPAS | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| FOUR | Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution |
| AHEADOFTIME | Early, or a hint to where each half of each starred answer can be found |
