| ROLLINGBLACKOUT | Temporary, controlled power shutdown ... or a hint to reading four of this puzzle's answers |
| SEEINGSTARS | Feeling dazed, as you may be when reading four clues here, or their solutions? (6,5) |
| STOPPAGE | Stand outside work before power shutdown (8) |
| FALLWEATHER | Autumn conditions, and a hint to reading the answers to the starred clues |
| LEGUP | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| INREVERSE | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| UPANDUP | Honest course, or a hint to reading as well as interpreting each starred clue's answer |
| FIREWALL | Network-security option . . . or what's creating a barrier within four of this puzzle's answers |
| THISISJUSTATEST | "We're only practicing," and a hint to reading each starred answer |
| OUTLAST | Survive longer than, and a hint to reading the starred clues |
| KITTYCORNER | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| AINTTHATTHEPITS | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN | Thoroughly ... or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle's clues |
| INTHEDARK | Wild guess, and a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| BOTTOMLINE | Upshot, so to speak . . . or something missing from a capital letter in four of this puzzle's clues? |
| IOERROR | Computer glitch responsible for four of this puzzle's answers |
| LONG | Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers |
| OWO | Surprised emoticon hidden in four of this puzzle's answers |
| WORLDSAPART | Utterly different, and what can be found in four of this puzzle's answers |
| BREAKDANCE | Do a headspin, say, or what four of this puzzle's black squares do? |
