| SILENCEISGOLDEN | Proverb espousing the virtue of staying quiet, and a hint to a word spelled out by six letters in this puzzle |
| UMA | Name that aptly completes the missing letters in Th_ r_ _n |
| TROTSKYITE | One espousing the theories of Russian revolutionary Leon Davidovich, 1879-1940 (10) |
| BLACKSHEEP | Hard worker wants husband that is boring, quiet and a rebel (5,5) |
| SEMESTER | Rest seem put out by six months' study (8) |
| THEFAULTINOURSTARS | Bestselling John Green novel, or a hint to spotting the six-letter word spelled out in the gaps dividing each set of circled letters |
| TURIN | First capital of Italy, birth place of solid chocolate and host of the 2006 Winter Olympics (it would have six letters in the Italian version of the name) (5) |
| ATTACHMENT | Apt word spelled out by the letters added to 10 answers in this puzzle |
| PHONETIC | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| MOUNTAINTOP | Peak, and a synonym of the word spelled out in the circled peaks' highest points |
| LEFTFIELD | Figuratively, where some wild ideas come out of; literally, a hint to a word and its position when p |
| GOGETTERS | Overachievers, and a hint to a word that can precede both words of the starred answers |
| SPLITDOWN | Shared equally ... and a hint to a word hidden at the center of each starred clue's answer |
| THEMIDDLE | Shared equally ... and a hint to a word hidden at the center of each starred clue's answer |
| FOOLAROUND | Engage in some horseplay ... or a hint to the words spelled out in the circles |
| LIE | Postion of the golf ball when it comes to rest - a good one would be on the fairway, a bad one in th |
| CORNERBARS | Local watering holes, and a hint to a word that can follow eight of this puzzle's peripheral answers |
| SALEM | Arthur Millers 1953 play, The Crucible, took a swipe at McCarthyism by way of the witch trials in th |
| WHOMOVEDMY | Business fable with two mice...or a hint to a word hidden in each starred answer |
| BANANAS | Word spelled out by Gwen Stefani in "Hollaback Girl" |
