| HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| HEADLIGHTS | They're at the front of a car, and the other four longest Across answers |
| CROSS | What the four pairs of unclued answers do (and the clue for all of them) |
| ALLINTHEFAMILY | Groundbreaking sitcom, and a hint to four different three-letter words concealed by starred answers |
| HOLDEM | Poker variety ... and what the four longest across answers do? |
| ENDINATIE | What the four other longest Across answers do |
| DEEPFAKE | Convincing, algorithmically generated video ... and a hint to the word concealed in 17-, 23-, 34- and 46-Across |
| HID | With 34-, 36- and 37-Across, ulterior motive ... or a hint to the word concealed in each starred clue's answer |
| HIDDENGEM | Description in many a travel guide, and a hint to a word concealed in 17-, 28- and 44-Across |
| CLUBSANDWICH | Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? |
| IBELIEVEICANFLY | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with 'sky' in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| SPOONERISM | What each of the other four longest answers in this puzzle is |
| FALLINGLEAVES | Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers |
| KEEPSANOPENMIND | What each of the other four longest answers does |
| PIGHEADED | Obstinate, and what the other four longest puzzle answers are? |
| FOURTEEN | If you roll a four on a dice, what is the sum of the dots on the other four visible sides? (8) |
| ANIMALHOUSE | Raucous frat film, and a hint to the starts of the other four long Across answers |
| MOUNTKENYA | Africa's second-highest peak, which shares its name with one of the five countries recently elected to the U.N. Security Council; the other four are in the other theme entries |
| GOASTRAY | What I'd do for The Platter's costume party is also what The Drifters might do! |
| KISSMEKATE | What words from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew are the title of a 1948 Cole Porter musical? (4,2,4) |