| TIMEANDAGAIN | Repeatedly, or if read a different way, a cryptic way of signaling a letter bank for the other theme answers |
| MOUNTKENYA | Africa's second-highest peak, which shares its name with one of the five countries recently elected to the U.N. Security Council; the other four are in the other theme entries |
| DRAW | Take out of the bank for the upcoming charge (4) |
| SOMETHINGEXTRA | What the other theme answers have? |
| HEARTTRANSPLANTS | How the other theme answers created this one? |
| VIENTIANE | Native provides the bank for the largest city in Laos (9) |
| TOMORROW | Family backs saving money with bank for the future (8) |
| PARAPHRASES | Puts in other words, or, if read as three pieces, a hint to the starred answers |
| NOTNOW | "I'm busy!" ... or, if read in four pieces, an aid in solving several clues here |
| TLDR | E-mail initialism signaling a summary of a longer piece of content |
| EXTRACT | Remove, or, if you put a space after the fifth letter, a feature of five of this puzzle's Across answers |
| TIMEANDTIMEAGAIN | Repeatedly (or a hint to both halves of the answers to the starred clues) |
| NAB | If read the other way around it means to legally prohibit |
| AGAINANDAGAIN | Repeatedly ... or, when read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| BRADS | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| REMBRANDT | The Night Watch (or, if you prefer, Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq) |
| SANSA | Winterfell character on "Game of Thrones" ... or, if you change the fourth letter to T, a wintertime character |
| PAYS | Foots the bill from the banks for the package holidays (4) |
| ENCODES | Cryptic way the Cockney keeps track of his chickens? (7) |
| ERASE | Word that, if read as a command, suggests that you should remove it after writing it down |
