| PTS | The six |
| ROBERTREED | He played Mike Brady, the dad in the six-kid family on "The Brady Bunch": 2 wds. |
| TIES | Binds ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| MACOPERATINGSYSTEMS | Things found at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| DEBO | Nickname of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the youngest and last of the six Mitford sisters (4) |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony -; author of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire novels including The Warden and The Small House at Allington (8) |
| HALFADOZEN | Number of the teams in the Six Nations, for instance, get fair share that's key to the rest and has a bearing (4,1,5) |
| LASSUS | Reputed to have been kidnapped three times for the beauty of his voice, composer known as the Divine Orlando who wrote the six-part motet Timor et tremor (6) |
| NOBELPRIZE | Any one of the six annual awards established from the funds bequeathed by the chemist who invented dynamite (5,5) |
| RUGBY | Contested at the Six Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, one of the sports or games that originated in the UK (5) |
| BURIAL | The six plank-lined Anglo-Saxon graves found by the River Wensum are thought to be the earliest known such site in Britain (6) |
| HARVEY | Who is the six-foot invisible rabbit in the 1950 James Stewart film of the same name? (6) |
| VALLEYOFDEATH | "All in the ___ ___ ___ rode the six hundred": Charge of the Light Brigade , by Lord Tennyson (6,2,5) |
| EDU | URL ending associated with the beginnings of the answers to the six starred clues |
| SMOKE | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| STOP | "Freeze!" ... or, when broken into three parts, how the answer for each of the six starred clues goe |
| NIRVANA | The Six Counties Bible, an absolute beginning and end to life as the Dalai Lama knows it (7) |
| ARBYS | 'We Have The Meats' fast food chain, and a homophonic hint to the six longest puzzle answers |
| RANSOME | Author who dedicated the first book in his Swallows and Amazons series to the six for whom it was wr |
| CYBORGS | The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman |
