| IDLETHREAT | Toothless menace described by the starts of 16-, 22-, 36- and 46-Across |
| MENSA | Group described by the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| THATSAWRAP | "Aaand ... scene!" ... or an observation about the end of 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across |
| FOLLOWTHELEADER | Simon Says relative, and a hint to what happens after the starts of 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across |
| WHATABREEZE | "Piece of cake!" ... and apt description of the starts of 17-. 22-. 36- and 46-Across? |
| BREAKDANCE | Debut sport at the Pan's Olympics, or what 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across do to their circled letters |
| ICEHOCKEY | Sport suggested by the first few letters of 16-, 22-, 36- and 47-Across |
| BLACKANDWHITE | Like a zebra, or two words that can precede the starts of 19-, 24-, 36- and 46- Across |
| MARBLE | Hard metamorphic rock produced by the recrystallization of limestone or dolomite under the influence of heat, pressure and chemically active fluids; described by the literary adjective marmoreal (6) |
| TRIPLEPLAY | Baseball rarity, and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44- Across |
| GOESWITHTHEFLOW | Conforms, or what each last word of 17-, 22-, 36- and 46-Across literally does |
| ROHINGYA | Stateless people of Myanmar described by the UN as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world (8) |
| PALM | Part of the human body described by the adjectives thenar and volar (4) |
| STAFF | Sheet music quintet, and with 31-Down, what the first letters of 16-, 22-, 36-, 45- and 56-Across r |
| COOLCAT | Hipster, and based on their initials, what each of 16-, 22-, 52- and |
| RAINBOW | Personified by the Greek goddess Iris, a meteorological phenomenon with a spectrum of colours described by the acronym ROYGBIV (7) |
| KIDNEY | Part of the body described by the adjective nephritic (6) |
| GREATDANE | Breed described by the American Kennel Club as "the Apollo of dogs" |
| SCURVY | Disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, described by the adjective scorbutic (6) |
| NAIL | Part of the human body described by the adjective ungual (4) |
