| DROPAHINT | Suggest something subtly, or what the answers to the starred clues do vertically |
| DROPSAHINT | Suggests something subtly |
| OGRE | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| COMETONOTHING | Ultimately fail ... or what the answers to the starred clues do |
| SPELLBOOK | Wizard's reference, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues do |
| BREAKTHEICE | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| GODOWNTOTHEWIRE | Remain uncertain until the very end, and what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| DROPTHEBALL | *Make a mistake ... and what the answers to the starred clues do, in two ways? |
| MADETHEROUNDS | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| GOINCIRCLES | *Be repetitive ... or what parts of the answers to the starred clues do? |
| SNAPCHAT | Popular mobile app ... and, as shown by circles, what the inner parts of the answers to starred clues do |
| SKIPJACK | Certain tuna ... or what this puzzle's 10 starred clues do |
| MIDDLENAME | Alva or Quincy, or what the answers to the starred clues have |
| CITYBLOCK | Urban square ... or what the answers to the pairs of starred clues seem to have between them? |
| DOUBLEATEAM | Tennessee Smokies or Portland Sea Dogs ... or what the answers to the starred clues comprise? |
| MAKEENDSMEET | Get by ... or what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| BORNLOSERS | Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially? |
| GODOWNIN | With 47-Down, fail spectacularly ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| SPLIT | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
