| TIMEKEEPERS | What the other three long answers all are |
| ALLFALLDOWN | End of a nursery rhyme, or the fate of this puzzle's other three long answers |
| FEARFACTOR | Old stunt reality show, and a feature of the other three long Across answers |
| SOUSAMARCHES | What the other eight long answers all are |
| TRIANGULAR | What the long answers all are, more or less |
| NINETOFIVEJOBS | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| SPARERIBS | Barbecue offering, or what the other three theme answers do? |
| HOMONYMS | What the other three circled words in this puzzle are (8) |
| SEPARATIONOFPOWERS | What the four other long answers all exhibit |
| STOCKHOLDERS | Share owners, and, broadly, what the starred answers all are |
| DOUBLETALK | Gibberish (or, taken literally, what three long answers are) |
| SIZES | What the three long answers end with, in brief |
| MUSICALS | The other three 8-letter answers, e.g. |
| NOTHINGINCOMMON | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| SEABEES | US Navy engineers (or a hint to the theme which is based on the first words of three long answers) |
| MENTALGYMNASTICS | Complex reasoning that occurs literally at the end of three long answers |
| GETSTRAIGHTFS | Flunk out ... and what three long answers do? |
| SPLITSECOND | Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? |
| THIGH | A point higher than the other three (5) |
| WENTFORTH | Set off and left after the other three, we're told |
