| FILLINTHEBLANKS | Provide missing info ... and what four clues do to their answers |
| MADETHEROUNDS | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| BREAKTHEICE | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| VEX | What lots of cross-referenced clues do to some solvers |
| GOTOTHEMAT | Struggle vigorously ... and what four other long answers' ending words can do? |
| PARTTHEREDSEA | Emulate Moses ... and what four black squares do in this puzzle |
| UPENDED | Flipped ... and what four puzzle answers are? |
| CATBURGLAR | Person who's inexplicably struck four clues in this puzzle, rather than their answers |
| GODOWNTOTHEWIRE | Remain uncertain until the very end, and what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| DROPTHEBALL | *Make a mistake ... and what the answers to the starred clues do, in two ways? |
| SHOWDOGS | Competition pooches, and what answers to asterisked clues do (8) |
| TAXBREAK | Common campaign promise, and what four black squares in this puzzle create |
| SNAPCHAT | Popular mobile app ... and, as shown by circles, what the inner parts of the answers to starred clues do |
| SPELLBOOK | Wizard's reference, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues do |
| OGRE | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| DROPAHINT | Suggest something subtly, or what the answers to the starred clues do vertically |
| SUGARCOAT | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
| SNOOKER | Game or what players try to do to their opponents in that game (7) |
| RUNUPATAB | Accumulate charges ... or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
