| ALTEREGO | Secondary persona, or what's hidden in the answers |
| ALTS | Secondary personas, in role-playing game lingo |
| EGOS | Alter ___ (secondary personas) |
| FINALSAY | Ultimate authority ... or what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| NERVOUSWRECK | Epitome of anxiety ... or what's hidden in three puzzle answers? |
| SECRETSAUCE | Ingredient for success, or what's hidden in each starred answer |
| SIXDEGREES | Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle |
| SEEDCAPITAL | Startup funds ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| ANTEUP | Poker request, and a literal hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| SAILS | Travels over what's hidden in the answers to the seven starred clues |
| TEARAPART | Rip to pieces, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| CHOPPEDLIVER | Metaphor for one feeling slighted ... and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| ETC | List abbr. (and what's hidden in the answers to this puzzle's four starred clues) |
| LYSOL | Popular disinfectant brand that fights what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| CRAZYEIGHTS | Simple card game, and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| SWAPMEET | Collectors' event, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| DAILYJUMBLE | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| RADIOEDIT | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| SPANISHCOUNT | Iberian nobleman (or title for the puzzle, based on what's hidden in the *clue answers) |
| TUMBLEWEEDS | Drifters in some Western scenes and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
