| CYLINDRICAL | Shaped like 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| HOLDMYBEER | Words before a stunt, and a hint to 17-, 28- and 46-Aross |
| CHUCKLEHEAD | Bozo, and a feature of 17-, 28-, and 46-Across |
| BARTSIMPSON | Homer's boy, and a hint to the first words of 17-, 28-, and 46-Across |
| CLAPBACK | Respond quickly and sharply to criticism ... or a hint to 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| MISSINGTHEPOINT | Failing to grasp the obvious, maybe, and what 17-, 28-, and 46-Across are? |
| AUTOCORRECT | Texting feature that sometimes goes awry, and what was used on 17-, 28-, and 46-Across? |
| GENERALASSEMBLY | UN organ ... or what the first words of 17-, 28- and 46-Across comprise? |
| SEASONEDCITIZEN | Recently coined term for a member of society who's experienced 17-, 28-, and 46-Across |
| COUNTERFEITCOIN | Slug, or a hint to the starts of 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| HATTRICKS | Three-goals-in-one game hockey scoring feats ... or what the ends of 17-, 28- and 46-Across are when they're rearranged? |
| SOUNDBITES | Broadcast news snippets ... or an apt description for 17-, 28- and 46-Across? |
| THATSMYJAM | "I love this song!" ... or a doubly apt description of 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| AREYOUIN | Question at the poker table, or a phonetic hint to 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| NERVEENDING | Part of an axon (and what 17-, 28- and 46-Across each has?) |
| ANDYWARHOL | Artist born 8/6/1928 who painted 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| ARKANSAS | Like 17 and 22, an old boat for an airborne elite (8) |
| OFFTOASLOWSTART | Initially sluggish ... or like 17-, 26-, 52and 66- across, in a sense? |
| EGESTS | Discharges waste energy? What one like 17 does, I hear (6) |
| CHARACTERIZATIONS | What they're like (17) |
