| HEMISPHERES | What our grid reveals in border is in this puzzle, in message added (11) |
| TRIM | In Yorkshire, the border is in good order (4) |
| EUPHEMISM | EU border is in PM's term conveying less offence (9) |
| SIDEHUSTLE | Extra job, and a hint to what each starred answer is for many (and literally is, in this puzzle) |
| SUBJECT | What "The Star-Spangled Banner" writer is in this puzzle |
| THEMET | Old bill -what bill is in this puzzle, given time (3,3) |
| POSTSCRIPT | Extra message added after a letter has been written and signed (10) |
| HIBERNATION | State from which many animals are emerging these days, including the six in our grid |
| PETERGRAVES | Mission: Impossible actor who said Roger Roger. What's our vector Victor? in the 1980 movie Airplane!: 2 wds. |
| TWOLEFTFEET | "You can't dance with us" in message from outside port (3,4,4) |
| CARBONFOOTPRINT | Global warming calculation whose shape is suggested by connecting 14 squares in this puzzle in a clo |
| LITTLEKID | Child represented in six squares in this puzzle (in either of two different ways) |
| IMAGINARYNUMBER | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| DEE | One of 42 in this puzzle, in honor of today |
| TREES | There are six hidden in this puzzle in appropriate places |
| TOPHATS | Items sported by the answers to the starred clues ... and something depicted in this puzzle in more |
| DOUBLE | Like the names in this puzzle, in a way |
| INDEPENDENTS | What this puzzle celebrates--or, homophonically, what our nation is celebrating |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| WATER | Its formula is in this puzzle's theme |
