| QUIETCAR | Place for Amtrak passengers to unwind ... and a hint to how to interpret eight puzzle answers |
| SPAMFILTER | Email service, and a hint to how to interpret the starred answers |
| DECIPHER | After first of month, Penny, his female counterpart is able to interpret (8) |
| BOARDER | Amtrak passenger? |
| ACELA | High-speed Amtrak passenger train |
| DRINKUP | Bar exhortation ... and a hint to how to answer five puzzle clues |
| BEGONE | "Scram!" (and a phonetic hint to how to treat seven Across answers) |
| COMPOUNDW | "The wart stops here" product, and a hint to the theme found in eight puzzle answers |
| STOPMAKINGSENSE | No longer be comprehensible ... and, with its first word divided in three parts, a hint to how to read this puzzle's title |
| OHTHEHORROR | Cry of dread ... and a hint to how to transform this grid's circled squares? |
| RAINOUT | Unwanted outcome for a sports match...and a hint as to how to make sense of twelve across answers in this puzzle |
| OMNIDIRECTIONAL | Like the answers to eight starred clues ... and a hint as to how to fill them in |
| EVERYTHINGBUT | Musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, and a hint as to how to enter answers to asterisked clues * (13) |
| BOTTOMSUP | Toaster's words, and a hint to solving eight puzzle answers |
| BERTH | A bunk for a passenger to sleep or a space for a ship to moor/tarry, either way it's a word from "hold, carry" (5) |
| UPTOAPOINT | Partly, and a hint to how to read the circled letters |
| AUCONTRAIRE | French rebuttal formed by inserting an anagram of "auto racer" into _ _ _ _ N _ _ _ I _ _: 2 wds. (Theme explanation: Every clue is wrong in the same way, and this answer gives a hint to how to unders |
| AMERICAN | Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers |
| SANITY | I need a stay in East Devon to unwind and restore my mental health (6) |
| TENNIS | Rene Lacoste's sport, whose scoring system features a word that explains how to interpret three across answers in this puzzle |
