| ZODIACSIGNRHYME | What each starred answer has |
| ENDGAME | 2019 Avengers movie, or what each starred answer has |
| SEASIDE | Coastal region, or what each starred answer has? |
| INSIDETRACK | Advantageous position, or what each starred answer has |
| MIDDLESEAT | Air traveler's dread, and what each starred answer has |
| HEADSTART | Advantage in a race, or what each starred answer has? |
| FINISHINGSCHOOL | Where a young woman once learned social skills, and what each starred answer has |
| FINALPAPER | Essay due at the end of the school year, or what each starred answer has |
| OUTSIDERS | They're not in the in-crowd ... and read differently, what each starred answer has two of |
| BOW | What each of the starred answers has |
| OPENSEASON | Legal hunting period, or what each starred answer does |
| GETSTHEAX | Is fired, and what each starred answer does |
| TITLEHOLDER | Champion, or what each starred answer is? |
| BLOWSTHEWHISTLE | Exposes wrongdoing, and what each starred answer frequently does |
| SOMEKINDOFANUT | Screwball, and what each starred answer's beginning is |
| CENTRALBANK | The Federal Reserve, e.g., or what each of the starred answers has |
| DODGINGTHEPRESS | Avoiding journalists' questions, or what each starred answer is doing? |
| SIDEHUSTLE | Extra job, and a hint to what each starred answer is for many (and literally is, in this puzzle) |
| CATCHINGSOMESUN | Enjoying a summer afternoon ... or what each starred clue's answer has been doing, based on its altered word and three letters above it? |
| FALSESTART | Football penalty ... or what each starred clue's answer has, in two ways? |