| MIXEDDOUBLES | Type of tennis match, and what's spelled out by the pairs of letters added to 12 phrases in this puzzle |
| ADDON | Bonus ... such as the phrase spelled out by the letters appended to 12 phrases in this puzzle |
| CRONE | Witch, and the combination of letters added to this puzzle's theme answers |
| ENDGAME | Last stage of a chess match, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| WDS | This puz. is full of them |
| DOUBLESTANDARDS | Rules unfairly applied in tennis match and darts, unfortunately (6,9) |
| LTRS | This puz. has 373 |
| TWIX | Candy bars packaged by the pair |
| AROUND | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make se |
| SUPPLEMENTED | Added to (12) |
| PHONETIC | Spelled as spoken, and what's spelled out by the sounds added to eight phrases in this puzzle when said aloud |
| MOVIEEXTRAS | People without lines, and what's spelled out by the letters added to this puzzle's films |
| YOUREMUTED | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| NEWSCLIPPING | Something taken out of the paper, and what's spelled out by the deleted letters in this puzzle's headlines |
| ATTACHMENT | Apt word spelled out by the letters added to 10 answers in this puzzle |
| POLAROPPOSITES | Completely different entities ... or the pairs of indicated words in 3-, 5- and 8- Down, in terms of meaning and location? |
| TOYS | Plush items that might utter the phrase spelled by the letters between the pairs of circles |
| BREAKINGGROUND | Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each |
| EXTENSION | Extra period of time to complete a school assignment ... and what's spelled out by the extra letters in this puzzle's courses |
| FRESHMEN | New college students, and what's spelled out by the first letters of the people admitted to this puzzle's colleges |
