| DEJECTION | Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common |
| AHEAD | Winning ... or, read another way, what nine of ten answers in this puzzle have? |
| WOODROW | First name of a former president ... or, read another way, what each of the circled lines is |
| UFOS | Area 51 phenomena ... or what five puzzle answers are? |
| GOOGOO | Phenomena ... or what five puzzle answers are? |
| ERS | What five puzzle answers are, initially |
| AEIOU | What the theme puzzle answers have in common, in order |
| CHANGINGDIAPERS | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| LOCO | Off one's rocker, and a hint to what the four longest puzzle answers have in common |
| AAHED | Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across? |
| STAKEOUT | Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across? |
| CANDY | Sweet, or, read another way, a hint to five long puzzle answers |
| PBS | Sesame Street airer in the US or, read another way, a hint for answers to asterisked clues (3) |
| THEFRENCHCONNECTION | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| SPARECHANGE | Pocketful of coins, and what literally occurs in the circled letters in five puzzle answers |
| DOUBLEDIP | Commit a party foul, in a way ... or what five answers do in this puzzle? |
| DNASEQUENCE | Human fingerprint, and what's hidden in five puzzle answers |
| INSIDEOUT | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| COMEBACKKID | Young player on the rebound ... or, in another way, what each set of circles in this puzzle represen |
| HEARINGTHINGS | Fooled by one's imagination ... or, another way, what the four other longest puzzle answers are? |
