| TENNISCOURT | Playing area usually having one of the surfaces seen at the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across |
| CLAY | Material used for pottery; or, one of the surfaces on which tennis is played (4) |
| PLUSSIGNS | The three in this grid are a hint to the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across |
| KINGSIZED | Not having one of the commoner dimensions? (4-5) |
| DOGS | Recipients of the cries seen at the starts of 20-, 36- and 50-Across and 7-Down |
| GESSO | Plaster surface seen in passages sometimes (5) |
| SECONDTHOUGHTS | Reconsideration of decisions made ... and what follow the first words of 16-, 28- and 43-Across? |
| FACE | Each of the surfaces of a solid such as a cube; or, the visage (4) |
| FACET | Any of the surfaces of a cut gemstone (5) |
| MAT | Surface seen in 11-Across |
| EVE | The First Lady is to be seen at the start of the evening |
| WITCH | One of three seen at the start of Macbeth |
| ADZ | A tool for cutting away the surfaces of wood like an axe with an arched blade at right angles to the handle |
| FIDDLERS | 15 18 30, 6 1, two 4 18, 8, 16 28 and 13 25 9 sounded divine among scrapers |
| RAID | Afraid of finishing it and having one of your attacks? |
| ARGENTINA | This country, Antarctica's closest neighbor, bolstered its territorial claim to the continent by having one of its citizens become the first person ever born there, on Jan. 7, 1978 |
| SPANNER | Having one of these in the works can be useful... or a problem (7) |
| DROSS | The scum formed, usually by oxidation, on the surfaces of molten metals (5) |
| MONDAYGOOSE | Honking bird seen at the start of the week? (Before: Meerkat, e.g.) |
| SCULPTURES | Carvings in the form of bronzes, busts, casts, figurines or reliefs; or, nature's incised patterns on the surfaces of ammonite shells, pollen grains or tree leaves (10) |
