| TEARSHEETS | Things ripped out of a magazine, and what you must do to understand 64 Across |
| ALEHOOF | Ground-ivy ripped out of a hole (7) |
| INSERT | It may fall out of a magazine |
| CDS | Things ripped and burned |
| LIFE | Name of a cereal, a magazine and a board game |
| AMMONIA | What's in a magazine and in a novel is pungent stuff (7) |
| PRINTED | Like a magazine and a fabric can be (7) |
| DROPCAP | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| CUTRATE | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| DIRECTIONS | Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| SHUFFLE | What you may need to do to understand the four sets of circled letters |
| SPLINTERGROUP | Factional offshoot, and what you must do to understand 67 Across and 81 Across |
| ADS | What TiVo users may skip over ... and what you must skip over to understand this puzzle's theme |
| DROPTHEBEAT | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| MAKEAUTURN | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| BREAKEVEN | Have a balance between income and expenditures, and what you must do to understand 11 Down |
| RAISETHEDEAD | Bring people back to life, and what you must do in four rows in this puzzle |
| AIRDROP | Share from phone to phone, or what you must do to this grid seven times for the answers to make sense |
| BREAKALEG | What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues |
| CRUNCHTIME | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
