| LEFTRIGHT | Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in |
| GOO | Baby's first and second word? |
| FIREDEPARTMENT | Emergency services give marching orders and leave personnel before time (4,10) |
| BOOKDROPS | Places to return library materials, and a hint to how the authors in four Down clues help complete the answers to the starred clues |
| YOURADHERE | Words on an empty billboard, and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| CORPORATEMERGER | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| NOEL | Christmas season... or a phonetic hint to how the starred clues must be read in order to make sense of their answers |
| IMOUT | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| ETTU | Words of reproach, and a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers are formed |
| HELIUM | Light element, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues have been inflated |
| GIRDLEOFVENUE | In palmistry, a semi-circular line extending from between the first and second fingers to between the third and fourth (6,2,5) |
| HEAVEHO | Dismissal, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues were derived |
| AAS | Smallish batteries, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues are formed |
| CHUCK | A device that holds a workpiece in a lathe or tool in a drill (5) |
| DOUBLEDOUBLE | Classic Tim Hortons order ... and a reference to both halves of the answers to the starred clues |
| OUT | Deceive... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed? |
| FAKE | Deceive... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed? |
| INITIALLY | At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? |
| MEZZANINE | The setter, two zulus (adult) and a cardinal - it might be between the first and second |
| ROCKYROAD | Nutty ice cream parlor order ... and a hint to each set of circled letters |
