| CONCRETEPOETRY | Verse with a visual element conveyed by patterns of words or letters |
| ASTERISK | A figure of a star used in writing and printing, often to indicate omission of words or letters (8) |
| CODE | Secret system of words or letters (4) |
| RETINA | Turner can finish with a visual aid maybe |
| VIDEO | Visual element of television broadcasts (5) |
| BUTTERFLY | Word that must be added to 1-, 8-, 65- and 66-Across for their clues to make sense [with a visual hint in the grid] |
| MOVETHECHAINS | Pick up first downs, in football slang ... with a visual interpretation seen inside the answers to 19-, 24-, and 42-Across |
| FELICITY | From the Latin meaning "happy", a feeling of delight or joy; a blessing; or, aptness or elegance of one's choice of words or expression (8) |
| VARIORUM | Edition of verse with a Brazilian spirit (8) |
| VARIOUS | Differing verse with a Duran Duran song by American (7) |
| LIMERICK | Humorous five-line verse with a rhyming scheme, popularised by Edward Lear (8) |
| DYSLECTIC | Having difficulty with reading words or letters |
| DIGRAM | Sequence of two words or letters |
| SEVERE | ... Monstrous verse with a note that's very difficult (6) |
| INKWELL | A glass or ceramic font of atrament housed near an old bureau's pen slot/rill, serving as a veritable spring of words or dip for thoughts and waiting quill (7) |
| SPOUT | Pouring point or blowhole for boiling water; to speak in a pompous stream of words; or, a cetacean's explosive plume of vaporised breath (5) |
| RHYME | Identity of sound of words or lines at end of verse (5) |
| PHRASE | From "tell", a combination of words; or, a manner of expression (6) |
| ACROSTIC | Verse with a message? |
| VANDAL | Verse with a line in Old German |