| TAKETHE | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| FLYLIKE | With 41-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit |
| DARED | What you did to make buddy stage dive |
| FLYLIKEANEAGLE | 1976 Steve Miller Band single (*cartoonist) |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | What an irritated diver must do to make the grade? (4,2,2,7) |
| SUMUP | What a judge may do to make the total higher (3,2) |
| GETTHEBALL | & 7 What billiards player will do to make the first move (3,3,4,7) |
| NOHESITATION | "Proceed with confidence!," and how to make the answers to 20-, 31-, and 43-Across match their clues |
| TRADEMARKS | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| SKIPTOWN | Run off ... or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues |
| JOKER | Steve Miller Band hit that hit #1 in 1974, with "The" |
| AIRLINER | Steve Miller Band hit "Jet ___" |
| ABRACADABRA | Steve Miller Band hit from 1982, or 2025 Lady Gaga song (11) |
| UNBREAKMYHEART | 1996 Toni Braxton hit, and what the starred clues' answers do collectively? |
| ATTRACTION | The appeal of the mince tart and what you do with it (10) |
| CIRCLEBACK | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| BOBBIE | ___ Sue (character in the Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money And Run") |
| ELPASO | City named in the Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run" |
| BREAKALEG | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| TURNEDTHETABLES | Reversed an unfavorable situation, and what you did in the theme answers |
