| SEENANDNOTHEARD | What children should be, proverbially ... or, when read as five parts, a hint to a letter in each starred answer |
| DYE | What turns the Chicago River green each St. Patrick's Day |
| SEEN | What children should be, proverbially |
| EAST | Direction taken by each Saint? (4) |
| THEOTHERAMERICA | Read the first letter in each clue to get a quote from this '67 speech |
| XED | Struck out, as one letter in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| BYGONES | Things best let be, proverbially |
| THINKTANK | Research institute ... or, when read as a direction, a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| VENDINGMACHINE | Dispenser of small items ... or, when read as three parts, a hint to the starred answers |
| AUTOMATES | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| LETTERDROP | Opening at the post office ... or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| HEART | Valentine symbol ... or, when read as two words, what you can't do when the answers to starred clues |
| HANDYDANDY | *Very convenient ... or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| THATWASEASY | Confident post-exam assertion, and a hint to a letter pair in each starred answer |
| ECHOLOCATION | Bat's navigation process or, when read as two words, feature within the answers to 20-, 28-, and 45- |
| ALTOGETHER | On the whole ... or, when read in two parts, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| INANE | Foolish ... or, when read as three words, how this puzzle's other four "foolish" answers are arranged |
| ACROSTIC | A poem or puzzle in which certain letters in each line form a word or words (8) |
| GIN | You need five parts of this spirit to one part of vermouth to make a Martini - either shaken or stir |
| PINCHBECK | Alloy of about five parts copper to one part zinc, used as a gold substitute in clock-making and jewellery (9) |
