| ANAGRAMS | Words or phrases, the letters of which can be rearranged into other words or phrases (8) |
| ANAGRAM | A word or phrase, the letters of which can be rearranged into another word or phrase (7) |
| CONJUNCTION | Word used to join other words or phrase together (11) |
| MODULAR | In pieces which can be rearranged, of furniture (7) |
| TOPICALISE | Make (a word or phrase) the first element of a sentence |
| BATCHES | Make cash bet they'll be rearranged into sets |
| ACROSTICS | Poems or other lines of writing, certain letters of which form a word or proverb (9) |
| CHIPSHORTAGE | Supply-chain issue affecting many businesses; it also affected our eight theme entries, the missing final letters of which spell it out (and their last words are all a type of what's missing) |
| GLOSSARY | An alphabetical list of words with meanings of words or phrases that are hard to understand (8) |
| EPITHETS | Descriptive words or phrases added to, or substituted for, a person's name (8) |
| DOPAMINE | Chemical in brain tissue acting as a neurotransmitter; a lack of which can be associated with Parkin |
| REPHRASE | Are losing a short group of notes put into other words (8) |
| CHARADES | Games in which players act out words or phrases (8) |
| GOLDSTAR | The first letter of which two brands combined to give electronics company LG its name? (5,8) |
| APTAGRAM | Word or phrase whose letters can be rearranged to form another with a similar meaning, such as "moon starer" for "astronomer" |
| COMEDYOF | Shakespeare play whose title became a commonly used phrase, The ___ ___ ___ (6,2,6) |
| ANASTROPHE | The inversion of the usual order of words or phrases (rhet) (10) |
| TERRIERMIX | Hybrid dog breed, literal examples of which can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| MARCHMADNESS | Annual college basketball tourney, rounds of which can be found in the circled squares at their appropriate numbers |
| BATARANGS | DC Comics weapons, one of which can be seen at the Smithsonian |
