| RAINRAINGOAWAY | Start of a hopeful rhyme about bad weather, and a hint to what the first word of 16-, 24- and 46-Across may describe |
| COOLHEAD | What a calm person keeps ... or the first word of 16-, 24-, 39- or 51-Across? |
| HAILSTONE | A little bit of bad weather and a hot-line's crashing! (9) |
| STORM | Bad weather and a pastor must go out in it |
| WELCOMETOMY | With 59-Across, what one might say when entering the starts of 16-, 24-, and 38-Across? |
| IANFLEMING | Author suggested by the starts of 16-, 24- and 49-Across |
| KEEPYOURCHINUP | "Things will get better," or a hint to 19-, 24- and 46-Across |
| TOOLONGDIDNTREAD | Cheeky review of 18-, 24- and 46-Across |
| TAILEND | Caboose locale ... and a hint to what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be |
| TRIPLEPLAY | Baseball rarity, and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44- Across |
| SYLLABLES | What the first word of the answer to each starred clue counts, with respect to the second word |
| LOBSTERTAIL | The "surf" of surf and turf, often, or what the first word of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| CASHUPFRONT | Seller's assurance of payment, and a hint to what the last words of the answers to starred clues can |
| BEDHEAD | Untidy waking-up hair condition, and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be |
| KICKSTARTER | Foot-operated mechanism on a motorcycle, and what the first word in each answer to a starred clue ca |
| POTATOHEAD | Mr. who debuted 5/1/1952, or in a way, what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be |
| FALLBEHIND | Lag, and a hint to what the starts of the answers to starred clues have in common |
| BREAKINGBAD | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| ITSALLINTHEMIND | Sports psychologist's mantra ... or what can be said about the last word of 16-, 21-, 33- or 49-Acro |
| STARTUPBUSINESS | Fledgling enterprise ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally do |
