| DOWNPAYMENT | Typical mortgage requirement, and what ends each answer to a starred clue |
| WILDCOUNTRY | Remote region ... and what literally ends each answer to a starred clue |
| IMAGINARYNUMBER | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| DINGDONGBELL | Fight, and what ends it, in the old rhyme |
| LAWN | Litigation and what ends it for grass? |
| FOODSTUFF | Course requirement and bits and pieces for those who are picky (9) |
| REDUNDANT | Surplus to requirement and turned off |
| BACKTRACK | Retrace one's steps, and what ends of 17-, 25-, 38- and 56-Across can literally have |
| ITSMINE | Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it int |
| GREEN | Color, a shade of which ends each of the starred answers |
| SQUAREDANCING | What begins and ends each sequence with the call "sets-in-order"? (6-7) |
| DIGIT | 'Pay attention, man!' ... and, in a different way, what the end of each answer to a starred clue refers to |
| RAILSPLITTER | Abraham Lincoln nickname, and a hint to a hidden word in each answer to a starred clue |
| THATHURTS | Pained expression, and a hint to two cries hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| ENDGAME | Last stage of a chess match, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| BOOTUP | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| PREPOSITION | Part of speech some say shouldn't end a sentence, but that does end each starred answer |
| ANT | A kind of one ends each of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| KICKSTARTER | Foot-operated mechanism on a motorcycle, and what the first word in each answer to a starred clue ca |
