| BROKEN | With 49- Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt description of each answer to a starred clue |
| DECOY | Lure to catch one out last month on the first and last of July (5) |
| OCEAN | With 6-Across, it keeps its passengers afloat |
| KISMET | Baubles, Bangles And Beads and Stranger In Paradise were hits from this musical set in the mysterious east and based on the music of Borodin |
| MONOGRAM | Design based on the first letters of a person's names, often put on clothes (8) |
| TBTEST | Diagnostic skin injection, and, based on the initials of their answers, what the starred clues repre |
| STOCKHOLDER | Certain investor ... and, based on the word hidden in each, what 17-, 26-, 37- or 50- Across is? |
| SAIGON | Miss ___, musical set during the Vietnam War and based on the opera Madame Butterfly (6) |
| FAIRGAME | Open to attack, and based on the starts of the answers to starred clues, what this puzzle is |
| SEABEES | US Navy engineers (or a hint to the theme which is based on the first words of three long answers) |
| RANKINE | Of which scale, named after a Scottish physicist and based on the Fahrenheit degree, does 491.67 equ |
| REDS | 1981 movie starring Warren Beatty and based on the writings of John Reed (4) |
| BITTERCD | Seventies German V8 built by Baur and based on the Opel Diplomat (6,2) |
| THETRAITORS | Peacock reality show set in Scottish castle and based on the party game Mafia: 2 wds. |
| MILNE | Author of tales illustrated by E H Shepard and based on the toy animals of his son, Christopher Robin (5) |
| ONAUTO | Running by itself, and where the first words of 17-, 35-, 42 and 64- Across can be placed |
| LUNGE | Performed in warrior-one asana and based on a fencing thrust, an exercise to strengthen the quads, hips and glutes (5) |
| AVEMARIA | Charles Gounod piece based on the first prelude of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" |
| PRIMAFACIE | What legal phrase means 'based on the first impression'? (5,5) |
| HALFHITCH | A knot made by passing the end of a piece of rope around itself and through the loop |
