| DOUBLEHEADER | Stadium marathon, or what the eight answers with circles gained individually, and what they gained collectively |
| NATIONALTOYHALLOFFAME | Rochester, N.Y., institution whose inductees include the eight answers to the starred clues |
| ZIPCODES | They gained four digits in 1983 |
| CUTTINGEDGE | Leading in innovation, or what the eight side answers give this puzzle |
| BACKDATES | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| TWODRINKMAX | Limit at the bar, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| SOAKUPTHESUN | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| PRIZEINSIDE | Cracker Jack extra, and what the answers with circles have |
| INNERDEMONS | Personal struggles, and what the answers with circles have |
| DOUBLEORNOTHING | High-stakes gamble, and how the answers with circles can be read |
| OUTMUSCLED | Overpowered ... or how the Across answers with circles might be described? |
| HIDDENGEMS | What the long Across answers with circles have |
| WRITTENINSTONE | Firmly fixed, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| LETTUCEWRAP | Low-carb lunch, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| EVENLYMATCHED | Comparable in skill, like each symmetrical pair of answers with circles? |
| NOTHINGINCOMMON | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| OPERATE | It's the era of the poet and what they do in the theatre (7) |
| EIEIO | What the eight long answers have in common |
| MMM | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| SILENTTREATMENT | Cold shoulder ... and a hint to four circled letters, individually and as a unit |
