| PUMPUPTHEVOLUME | What a deejay might do to create energy ... or a request that may lead to 17-, 25- and 46-Across |
| HEYCANIGETALIFT | Request from someone who needs a ride, or a request that can be made of the starts of 17-, 24-, and 43-Across |
| RECYCLEDPLASTIC | Useful waste, what's literally hidden in 17-, 25- and 46-Across |
| AGNESGREY | Novel way to create energy with gas (5,4) |
| REACTORS | They are used to create energy about the cast (8) |
| RENEWABLE | Another name for alternative energy, or a colloquial word for any form of usable energy derived from replenishable sources (9) |
| LOVELESS | Without affection - or a request not to be so needy? (8) |
| JUICE | Energy, or a drink |
| VIM | Energy, or a capacity for vigorous activity (3) |
| CHANGEDONESTUNE | Adopted a new attitude, or what music producers did to create the answers to the starred clues? |
| DUCHESS | Upper-class daughter about to join game that may lead to a mate and a title |
| APPEAL | A request that a higher court hear a case |
| LOOKINTOMYCRYSTALBALL | Request that may allow one to gaze into the future |
| CUTINHALF | Sounds like something childish Solomon would threaten to do to create division? (3,2,4) |
| NOPROBLEM | Reply to a request that is considered reasonable (2,7) |
| HENNIGHT | Unmanly sort of do, to create a hyphenating payoff (3,5) |
| STICKITOUT | Last thing to do to create projection |
| DRAW | What artists do to create an attraction (4) |
| RESERVEPRICE | Reticence and formality about publicity value that may lead to a lot for relatively little |
| PLEASE | Request that may be "pretty" |
