| COVERBANDS | Tribute groups, or a four-part hint to the starred clues' answers |
| BARASSOCIATIONS | Lawyers' groups, or a hint to the word that can follow the starts and precede the ends of 16-, 25-, 47- and 60-Across |
| PERFORMER | Entertainer, or a three- part hint to the shift behind "band perch", "Thor's hamper", "beg for Percy" and "what a bumper" |
| TRITE | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| BAND | A stripe such as the heraldic bar-sinister; a lace or linen cavalier collar; a range of frequencies or wavelengths in a spectrum; a rock group; or, a gang of gorillas, men, outlaws or thieves (4) |
| MOVER | Lug nut? (and a two-part hint to this puzzle's four starred clues) |
| FORTYNINERS | Old rush participants ... or a three-part hint to what can be found in this puzzle's grid or clues |
| STINGY | Penny-pinching ... or a three-part hint to two outer and two inner letters of each starred clue's answer |
| TALLYHO | A huntsman's traditional cry to the hounds on sighting a fox; or, a four-in-hand coach (5-2) |
| STOMACH | Sloths have a four-part ___ that very slowly digests the tough leaves they eat |
| ALTO | Second-highest part in a four-part choir |
| BOYZIIMEN | "On Bended Knee" group, or a hint to the starred answers' first three letters |
| STOCK | Clove-scented bloom sometimes called a gillyflower; or, a four-fold necktie for dressage or hunting, traditionally white, cream or check (5) |
| NANOWRIMO | Annual November literary challenge whose name is a four-part portmanteau |
| PARTS | From "division, portion", word for a body of adherents; company of people; detachment of troops; side in a battle, game, lawsuit or other contest; a political group; or, a beano, bun fight or other so |
| BREAKINGRANKS | Splitting with one's group ... or a hint to the theme found in four puzzle rows |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| HAMILTON | Capital of Bermuda; a New Zealand engineer who invented the jetboat; or, a four-time Formula One world champion currently driving for MercedesA (8) |
| FOOLMEONCE | Start of a four-part saying |
| TRIO | Three musicians collectively or a piece of music composed for such a group; or, a set of three aces, kings, queens, jacks or tens held in one hand in piquet (4) |
