| SAMEMIDDLENAME | What 20-, 33- and 42-Across have in common? |
| CHECKBEFOREHAND | Verify ahead of time, and a hint to what 20-, 25- and 42-Across have in common |
| DODGEDABULLET | What those who lived through 20-, 35-, and 42-Across have done |
| WINGS | What 20-, 38- and 58- Across have in common |
| ENS | What Nixon and Kennedy have in common? |
| COMPARENOTES | What singers do to find what they have in common? (7,5) |
| ICE | What do officer and serviceman have in common? Diamonds (3) |
| BANKS | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| LINKS | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| DRIBBLE | What babies and footballers have in common? (7) |
| VOWELOFSILENCE | What people and leopards have in common? |
| SILENTBS | What wombs and tombs have in common? |
| ENDING | What is the last thing hog and pig have in common? (6) |
| NOUGHTS | What 1900s and 2020s have in common? (7) |
| UNITED | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| NOFILTER | Instagram selfie hashtag ... and what the starred clues' answers have in common? |
| LEADINGQUESTION | Something frowned on in court that whoppers and howlers have in common? |
| CHANGINGDIAPERS | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| ONEEYE | In mythology, what unusual physical characteristic do giants from many cultures have in common? (3,3) |
| PATHFINDERS | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
