| MONKEY | With the circled letters and 46-Across, playground keep-away game |
| MONKEYINTHEMIDDLE | "Keep away" game |
| EYE | A 1A at a playground keeps an ___ on her child |
| APOCKETFULLOFRYE | Picture A ... or, after switching the circled letters and reading the result phonetically, Picture B |
| THECLOCK | With the circled letters, 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets hit? |
| CUT | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| URBANSPRAWL | Unrestricted city expansion ... and what begins in the circled letters (and ends in uncircled ones for you to find) |
| EXERCISEROUTINE | Workout suggested by the circled letters and their orientation |
| POSTITNOTES | Sticky yellow squares ... or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? |
| STILL | With [the circled letters], Maya Angelou poem that begins "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies" |
| GOLDENRATIO | Numerical constant associated with [the circled letters] |
| BREAK | With the circled letters, period that traditionally ends on Labor Day |
| GOING | With the circled letters (literally!), two options when riding an elevator |
| THREE | With the circled letters, a literal depiction of what you need to win tic-tac-toe? |
| EIGNSTATE | With the circled letter over, self-ruled entity |
| TOPERATIONS | With the circled letter over, undercover missions |
| TYREDUCTION | With the circled letter over, humanitarian goal |
| SPIN | With the circled word in the grids center, what each circled word is? |
| WORKFROMHOME | Eschew the office, and what you get with the circled words |
| HEAVEN | Classic Led Zeppelin song represented by the ascending circled letters and this answer |
