| OPENINGDAY | Start of a sports season, and what each half of 17-, 28-, 39- and 48-Across can have |
| BLACKTOPPED | Paved over, and what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| MIXEDGREENS | Packaged produce buy, and a literal description of the ends of 17-, 28-, 39- and 49-Across |
| BACHELOROFARTS | Common college degree, whose abbreviation is a hint to 20-, 28-, 39- and 48-Across |
| ITSNOTHING | Polite response to a thank- you,or a comment about the start of 17-, 28-, 39- or 51 Across'? |
| PINHEADS | Tops of sewing fasteners ... and what the starts of 17-, 26-, 37- and 51-Across can have |
| FRESHSTART | What a new year can give you ... or what 17-, 23-, 34-, and 49-Across can have? |
| AFTERDINNER | When one might have a mint ... or where the first words of 18-, 24-, 37- and 48-Across can be found |
| FRONTOFHOUSE | Restaurant or theater staffers who work with patrons, or where the starts of 20-, 28-, 36-, and 48-Across can be found? |
| ATTACHEDFILE | It may be affixed to an email ... and, literally, what the last word of 20-, 35- and 42-Across can have |
| WORLDCUP | International event where 17-, 28- and 48-Across can be heard |
| WHITEMATTER | Certain brain tissue, or what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| DECIDUOUS | Trees and shrubs that shed all their leaves at the end of each growing season and then have a dormant period (9) |
| SNOWCAPPED | Like alpine peaks ... or what each half of 3-, 7-, 9-, 37- |
| AUTUMNPEASE | Softball player formed by inserting an anagram of "Spumante" into A U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E: 2 wds. (Theme answer: The first word of this answer is a season and the second word is a homophone for green ve |
| WINTERSOUP | Dish that might be served with a ladle in January or February: 2 wds. (Theme answer: The first word of this answer is a season, and the second is a food that might contain broth) |
| SPRINGLEAKS | Start spurting liquid: 2 wds. (Theme answer: The first word of this answer is a season and the second word is a homophone for green vegetables.) |
| LIBEL | Call one to replace article that's the reason sidesman brought what's in bottom half of 17 |
| MAHJONG | Meaning "sparrows", a game played with a set of tiles bearing Chinese characters and also symbols of bamboo, dots, dragons, flowers, seasons and winds (3-4) |
| STLEGER | One of the five classics of the flat-racing season and the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
