| CONVERTTOMETRIC | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| ORS | Choice words ... which are necessary to interpret the answers to 19-, 36- and 52-Across and 10- and 33-Down |
| MOVIEOFTHEWEEK | 1970s-'80s TV staple ... or a hint to 16-, 25- and 42-Across |
| LONGISLANDSOUND | Body of water south of Connecticut . . . or what the starts of 17-, 25-, and 40-Across combine to make? |
| SPOUT | Teapot part ... or a two-word hint to 16-, 25-, 43- and 59-Across |
| BREXIT | Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum ... or a hint to 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| MEASURE | What you have to do to make sure there's the right amount of sugar in your homemade cookies (or to find out how tall you are) |
| DROPINS | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | Reduce one's excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| SQUARETHECIRCLE | What you have to do to make 24? You can't! (6,3,6) |
| SPAMFILTER | Email service, and a hint to how to interpret the starred answers |
| APPLYFORLEAVE | Rub in on trim body and resist the temptation to touch - it's what fighters have to do to guarantee the rest (5,3,5) |
| LOVELETTERS | What you have to do to be a puzzlemaker? |
| INTEGRATE | What you have to do to become one (9) |
| MITIGATION | A big UN word to describe what we have to do to stop the sky falling in, chicken lickin ... (10) |
| TAKETOTHEBOTTLE | What young one might have to do to accept milk drink falling off the wagon (4,2,3,6) |
| FACETHEMUSIC | What the conductor might have to do to accept responsibility (4,3,5) |
| HOPUP | What you might have to do to sit on a barstool |
| RINGABELL | Jog memory: what you may have to do to gain admission |
| SENSORIUM | Neurosis beaten by miles, which enables one to interpret the world (9) |
