| WIP | Unfinished project, for short |
| REPO | Directory for a coding project, for short |
| BIOLAB | Place for a high school dissection project, for short |
| SDI | "Star Wars" project, for short |
| DBS | Linkin Park singer side project, for short |
| SETI | "The X-Files" project, for short |
| DIY | Like many a home improvement project, for short |
| RENO | Expensive house project, for short |
| OED | Massive lexicographical project, for short |
| REHAB | "This Old House" project, for short |
| TVA | Pre-W.W. II public works project, for short |
| RENOS | "Flip or Flop" projects, for short |
| EPS | Some debut music projects, for short |
| OPS | Intelligence projects for short |
| LOC | Institution behind the Letters to Lincoln and National Jukebox projects, for short |
| JUT | Old invader's unfinished project |
| ARTHUR | Conan Doyle's gift? Unfinished project |
| ROUGHCAST | Plaster in unfinished project (9) |
| WORKINPROGRESS | Unfinished project |
| AWORKINPROGRESS | Unfinished project ... or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain? |