| ACROSTIC | Poem where initial letters of each line spell out a word (8) |
| SPOONERISM | Slip of the tongue where initial sounds are transposed (10) |
| CLARITY | Limpidness that becomes mucky where initial information's lacking (7) |
| ACTS | Book where initial erased from agreements (4) |
| OVERFLOW | In the Paterson poem, where was Clancy from? (8) |
| INITIALS | First letter of each of a person's names (8) |
| ACROSTICS | Puzzles or poems where the first letters of each line form words (9) |
| TELESTICH | Poem in which the last letters of each line form a word or phrase |
| ACRONYMS | What are words formed from the initial letters of other words (8) |
| FINALCUT | Director's demand, and the last four or five letters of each starred answer |
| BLTS | Sandwiches that might add an egg or avocado so that the name spells out a word (and for flavor, I guess) |
| FIRST | Hint: The ___ letters of the circled words spell out a fitting two-word phrase |
| EXEAT | From the Latin for "let him or her go out", a word for a leave of absence from a boarding school, diocese, religious house or university (5) |
| POIROT | To 8 will spell out a US city, and the le ers in the even-numbered squares 14 to 34 will spell out its floral nickname. ACROSS 1 Hercule ___, fictional detective (6) |
| KENNYG | Brass instrument musician formed by KE + the even letters of "Jnana yoga": 2 wds. (Theme answer: This singer is known by their name + initial, and this puzzle's three circled initials spell out a "rea |
| HENDECASYLLABIC | Descriptive of each line of Robert Frost's poem 'For Once, Then, Something' (15) |
| YEP | Word of agreement spelled by the last letters of each word in "sunny side up" |
| BONEYM | 1970s ensemble formed by B + an anagram of "money": 2 wds. (Theme answer: This group is known by their name + an initial, and this puzzle's three circled initials spell out a "reaction") |
| ACRONYM | Word formed from the initial letters of a sequence of words (7) |
| ECHELON | Parallel lines of troops, with the ends of each line wider than the line in front (7) |
