| CHANGEOFSEASONS | What happens tomorrow ... and a hint to this grid's circled letters |
| TOSSEDSALAD | Green side dish, and a hint to this grid's eighth-column letter swaps |
| GRAYDIVORCE | Marital split after age 50 ... as depicted in this grid's circled squares |
| THECONTIGUOUSUS | Where the grid's circled letters denote the NW, NE, SW, SE and centermost locations |
| AREALPAIN | 2024 Jesse Eisenberg-Kieran Culkin film ... as suggested by the grid's circled squares? |
| COUNTERTOP | Sometimes-granite surface, and a hint at what to add to this grid and where |
| ALLRIGHT | Okay, and a hint at what to add to this grid and where |
| BEARLEFT | Haw, and a hint at what to add to this grid and where |
| BELLBOTTOM | '70s pant leg shape, and a hint at what to add to this grid and where |
| CREEPS | "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, ... in this petty pace from day to day" (Macbeth) (6) |
| MACBETH | Speaker of the line "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day" |
| AIRDROP | Share from phone to phone, or what you must do to this grid seven times for the answers to make sense |
| MISSING | What this grid's big symbol is, Across and Down |
| ACTV | When Macbeth delivers the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy |
| FILLIN | What an understudy might do to this grid? (4,2) |
| ANAGRAM | What each of this grid's ten-letter entries is |
| BOO | What something with this grid's shape might say |
| SHORTENING | Baking ingredient... or the key to transforming this grid's shaded squares into desserts? |
| POSITIVE | Word (suggested by the black shape in this grid's center) that can precede the answers to starred cl |
| SEER | A vaticinal word for a divine eye, oracle, prophet, visionary or other looker or gazer into tomorrow and beyond; or, an eyewitness (4) |
