| WAH | With 28-Across, sad trombone sound effect |
| WELP | Verbal equivalent to a sad trombone sound |
| WAHWAH | "Sad trombone" sound |
| BREAKUP | With 54-Across, sad tunes and a hint to the indicated letters |
| OOMPAH | Exciting quality encapsulating a trombone's sound |
| ADULTS | "Peanuts" characters whose voices are typically replaced with trombone sounds |
| BLATS | Trombone sounds |
| FIRE | With 15-Across, station with a hook and ladder With 16-Across, indoor chores With 28-Across, tireless sort Particle for Fermi Out-of-use anesthetic |
| OURSTARSINGSIT | With 28 Across, reason given by 46 Across for wanting to cut 57 Across |
| MANDY | With 28-Across, "This Is Us" actress who will star with 1-Across |
| SNOOPDOGGS | With 28-Across: three-part docuseries that premieres tomorrow night on E! (it deals with 1- and 5-Across's wedding plans and life afterwards) |
| BATOUT | With 28-Across, debut album by 7-Across |
| SEX | With 28-Across: How-to guide written by 1-Across |
| LUMON | With 28-Across, company with nine core principles |
| TOUCH | With 28 Across, get offline ... and what 13 and 20 Across do? |
| KIM | With 28-Across, celeb who informs 1-Across that he's playing the Super Bowl, in the ad |
| KINDSOF | With 28-Across, new Yorgos Lanthimos movie with an all-star cast that includes Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Hong Chau, and Willem Dafoe |
| ANNASOPHIA | With 28-Across: star of 11-Across, on which she plays corruption fighter Summer McBride |
| PEARLHARBOR | 61-Across's first stay with 28-Across began just two weeks after this event |
| CHAPPELL | With 28-Across: she scored a sleeper hit with the 2023 album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" |
