| FREEOF | With 50- Down, pro bono ... or like each starred answer, based on its deleted word? |
| LEVELHEADED | Good in a crisis ... or like each starred clue's answer, based on its first word? |
| FIGHTSONG | Notre Dame's "Victory March," e.g. ... or each starred answer, based on its final word? |
| LEADACTOR | Star ... or each starred answer, based on his initials? |
| STET | Retain deleted word in text (4) |
| ERASED | Hastily reads the note before it's deleted (6) |
| JUSTINCASE | "To be on the safe side," like each starred answer |
| HASTHEFINALWORD | Possesses ultimate authority, like each starred answer in relation to the previous one (and wrapping around) |
| DOUBLESIDED | Like some tape ... and each starred clue's answer, based on its first and last two letters |
| BILINGUAL | Fluent in two languages, or like each starred answer's pair of hidden words? |
| BACKTOBACK | Like a doubleheader ... or each starred clue's answer, based on what can precede both its parts? |
| ACHANGEDMAN | Guy who has transformed ... or any of the starred answers, based on their indicated letters? |
| REMOTEPOSITION | Job that can be done away from an office, or description of the starred answers based on the circled letters |
| EATENALIVE | Mobbed by mosquitoes ... or a hint to each starred clue's answer, based on the word that surrounds it |
| END | Appropriate answer based on its location in this puzzle |
| ROMAN | Like each starred answer's first letter, when used as a numeral |
| CATCHPHRASE | Familiar slogan ... or, based on its last word,what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| CATCHINGSOMESUN | Enjoying a summer afternoon ... or what each starred clue's answer has been doing, based on its altered word and three letters above it? |
| SIXPACKABS | Hard core ... or the starred clues' answers, based on their initials? an election |
| BREAKSATEN | Gets two fives, perhaps ... or what each starred clue does, based on its answer's length? |
