| BLIND | Word that can follow the first word of 20, 37 or 56-Across |
| INSIDEBET | Certain roulette wager ... or what 16-, 23-, 37- or 56-Across has? |
| LOVE | Word that can precede the first word of 20-, 37-, 44- or 59-Across |
| VALLEY | Geological depression, and what the first word of 20-, 37- and 56-Across is |
| THATSLIFE | Sinatra song, and a possible exclamation on seeing 17-, 20-, 37- or 51-Across |
| ANIMATEDCARTOON | 20-, 37- or 52-Across |
| HAPPYENDINGS | Fairy tale outcomes, or, in a way, what the last words of 20-, 37- and 43-Across are |
| THREESCOMPANY | Sitcom whose main characters' surnames are the last words of 20-, 37-, and 43-Across |
| PENS | They relate to this puzzle's title, and can follow the first word of 20-, 31-, 40-, and 52-Acoss |
| RULE | Govern, or word that can follow the first word of the four longest puzzle answers |
| LANE | Highway division, and word that can follow the first word of the answers to starred clues |
| MONEY | Word that can follow the first word of 18-, 20-, 35-, 54-, |
| DOVETAILS | Synonym for interlocks formed by inserting an anagram of "et voila" into D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S (Theme answer: The first word of this phrase is a bird and the second word is a homophone of the second word |
| ROLLINGINDOUGH | Wealthy, and a hint to the first word of 20-, 35- and 40- Across |
| PIECE | Word that could follow the first word of the theme entries |
| FAIR | Word that can follow the first word of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| LINE | Long, narrow mark, and a word that could follow the first word of the themed answers |
| OIL | Viscous liquid, and a word that can follow the first words of the starred answers |
| DIRTYLAUNDRY | Clothes that need to be cleaned: 2 wds. (Theme answer: The first word is the opposite of the first word of 20-Across, and the second word can be put in a washing machine.) |
| MOUTHED | Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues |
