| BANDS | This puzzle's theme entries are each comprised of two |
| MICH | St. comprised of two peninsulas |
| CHLOEXHALLE | R&B duo comprised of two sisters who also starred in Grown-ish |
| YOYOTRICKS | What this puzzle's theme entries are |
| STOPLIGHT | Traffic control device, and what this puzzle's theme entries are supposed to mimic |
| FLIPPINGHOUSES | Buying, renovating and quickly selling homes for profit ... or what this puzzle's theme entries are literally doing |
| BKLYN | Though none are natives, our theme entries are connected with one of NYC's boroughs, as their names contain each of these letters |
| VEGETARIANS | What this puzzle's four theme entries are |
| WORDLE | Language puzzle that's sweeping the internet; the five-letter words in our theme entries are eight of the best first guesses, per a Jan. 20 USA Today piece |
| PINE | Tree whose scent you may have sensed this holiday season; our theme entries are infused with it, too |
| PRMEN | What all four theme entries are? |
| ATOZ | How a dictionary's entries are arranged; or how you could "travel" in each of the four countries featured in this puzzle, since their names contain both letters (3 wds.) |
| GUARDS | This puzzle's perimeter entries are all types of them |
| EARACHE | Are each a source of otalgia? (7) |
| RESEARCHTEAM | Group of scientists' terms are each set out (8,4) |
| LOUVRE | They say you are each in love with this museum (6) |
| STATECAPITALS | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| STATE | What "taxes," "wonkery" and "I mean" are each anagrams of |
| PERIODICTABLE | What this puzzle's columnar entries are taken from |
| ALLCAPS | Emphatic type ... or what the beginnings of the longest entries are? |
