| DOUBLENEGATIVES | Some grammatical no-nos ... or a description of four pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
| AINTS | Grammatical no-nos |
| TENSE | A bit strained in some grammatical application? (5) |
| ALSO | ... as some grammatical sorting does as well. (4) |
| CANISTEALYOUFORASECOND | Request for one-on-one time in the "Bachelor" TV franchise ... or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| RAMPUP | Increase rapidly ... or a hint to connecting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| MINDOVERMATTER | Slogan about willpower ... or a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| OPPOSITESATTRACT | Dating axiom ... or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| BOXBRAIDS | Hairstyle worn by Janet Jackson in the 1993 film "Poetic Justice," with a hint to entering four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| TURNSOFPHRASE | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| CROSSPOLLINATED | Hybridized, botanically ... or like four pairs of answers in this puzzle (and the circled letters they intersect on)? |
| AND | + ... with a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| HANDMEDOWN | Something that's kept in the family ... or a hint to making sense of three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| COUP | Overthrow, or, if reparsed, a hint to making sense of four pairs of Across answers |
| FORMATION | Following the nine black squares in the center of the grid, a hint to five pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| SILENTS | Many Greta Garbo films, and what you'll find at the intersections of four pairs of answers to starre |
| SCREEN | Displays during an online presentation ... or a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| SHARES | Displays during an online presentation ... or a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| THEWALL | See 1dn, some neighborhood bars ... or what connect eight pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
