| URBANSPRAWL | Unrestricted city expansion ... and what begins in the circled letters (and ends in uncircled ones for you to find) |
| RATEDR | Containing more than one F-word, perhaps |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| INGRAINED | Deep-rooted ... and what the uncircled letters of the answers to starred clues are? |
| APOCKETFULLOFRYE | Picture A ... or, after switching the circled letters and reading the result phonetically, Picture B |
| POSTITNOTES | Sticky yellow squares ... or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? |
| EXERCISEROUTINE | Workout suggested by the circled letters and their orientation |
| HEAVEN | Classic Led Zeppelin song represented by the ascending circled letters and this answer |
| HELL | Classic AC/DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer |
| INONESENSE | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| ALEXANDRIA | The play begins in the middle of a crisis, with Antony already in love with Cleopatra. Messengers summon him back to Rome from what city, where he's luxuriating with Cleopatra? |
| RUTH | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
| SPRING | Device whose expansion and compression is described in Robert Hooke's law of elasticity, or, a season associated with house cleaning and decluttering rituals (6) |
| TREK | Journey starts in the red and ends in the black |
| BEARAWAY | Long distance walking route in SW Republic of Ireland that begins and ends in Glengarriff, County Cork (5,3) |
| SANCTUARY | Safe place of refuge begins in sanitarium and ends in mortuary about a hundred (9) |
| GANGA | A transboundary river flowing through India and Bangladesh, which begins in the western Himalayas in Uttarakhand |
| ENVELOPE | What begins and ends with "E," but has just one letter? |
| BOREDOM | Flush in time of expansion and flatness (7) |
| STOPGO | Lights for both in deliberate expansion and contraction policy (4-2) |
