| 10
| ROCKBOTTOM |
All-time Low ... Or A Musical Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 14
| REVENGEISADISH |
With 11-down, Proverb About Delayed Retribution, With A Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 7
| BIGEASY |
Nickname For New Orleans, Celebrated By The Answers To The Starred Clues And Suggested By The Shaded Squares |
| 8
| TURNKEYS |
Jailers ... Or A Hint To "unlocking" Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 8
| OPTIMIST |
One Who Identifies With The Answers To The Starred Across Clues |
| 9
| PESSIMIST |
One Who Identifies With The Answers To The Starred Down Clues |
| 11
| RAISETHEBAR |
Heighten Expectations, Say ... Or A Hint To Entering Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 15
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN |
Thoroughly ... Or A Hint For Parsing Some Lowercase Letters In Four Of This Puzzle's Clues |
| 15
| TAKEOUTTHETRASH |
What To Do Before The Answers To The Starred Clues Will Make Sense |
| 4
| STIR |
Instruction In An Oatmeal Recipe |
| 5
| SOLAR |
With 41-across, A Celestial Event ... Or A Hint To Four Squares In This Puzzle |
| 5
| COMMA |
Punctuation Mark Missing In "let's Eat People!" (at Least One Would Hope!) ... As Well As From The Starred Clues |
| 8
| DOTTHEIS |
Attend To Details ... Or A Hint To Entering Six Down Answers In This Puzzle |
| 3
| TSP |
Shortening In A Recipe |
| 3
| EMI |
Onetime Member Of The Record Industry's Big Four |
| 3
| FEB |
It Changes Length Every Four Years Abbr. |
| 3
| QTS |
Four Of These Make A Gal. |
| 4
| NCAA |
Final Four Org. |
| 4
| IKEA |
Store With A Three-syllable Name In Four Letters |
| 4
| DOGS |
Some Four-footed Friends |
| 4
| ASAP |
Order With Four Periods |
| 4
| ERIE |
Lake Bordering Four States |
| 4
| RAVE |
Four-star Review |
| 4
| PLEA |
Word That, Fittingly, Contains All Four Different Letters Of Appeal |
| 5
| RACES |
Four Of The 10 Decathlon Events |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| POACH |
Eggs Benedict Recipe Word |
| 6
| GENDER |
One Of Three For German Nouns, Or One Of Four For Those In Africa's Zande Language |
| 6
| KISSME |
Instruction To Kate In A Cole Porter Title |
| 6
| ADDOIL |
Stir-fry Recipe Step |
| 6
| AMOEBA |
Simple Creature |
| 6
| ONECUP |
Recipe Unit |
| 7
| ADDSALT |
Common Recipe Step |
| 7
| ALLIASK |
Start Of A Simple Request |
| 7
| TUESDAY |
Calendar Column ... Or A Punny Hint To The Circled Squares |
| 7
| RHYMING |
Like 17-, 26-, 40-, 51- And 64-across, With Respect To The Numbers In Their Clues |
| 7
| PERLMAN |
Rhea With Four Emmys |
| 7
| BOOBAMA |
Four-footed Resident Of The White House From 2009-17 |
| 8
| QUADBIKE |
Atv With Four Tires |
| 8
| COINFLIP |
Simple Matter Of Probability |
| 9
| LOOSEENDS |
Unresolved Details ... And A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 9
| PIANODUET |
Piece Played With Four Hands |
| 9
| TETRAPODS |
Four-limbed Animals |
| 9
| QUEBECOIS |
One Represented By A Blue-and-white Flag With Four Fleurs-de-lis |
| 10
| HOLDMYBEER |
Comment Before A Stupid Stunt ... Or A Hint To The Ends Of 17-, 25-, 36- And 50-across |
| 10
| SWITCHJOBS |
Change Careers, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
| 10
| ITSTHEPITS |
"awful!" ... Or A Hint To The Common Element Of 17-, 23-, 36- And 50-across |
| 10
| GUTFEELING |
Intuition Without Logical Explanation, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 10
| GROUPTHINK |
Intellectual Conformity ... Or A Hint To Interpreting 17-, 22- And 51-across |
| 11
| COUNTRYSTAR |
Grand Ole Opry Performer ... Or A Hint To 17-/18-across And 23- And 36-down |
| 14
| THEDOCTORISOUT |
Lucy's Empty-booth Sign In "peanuts" ... Or A Hint To 16-, 24-, 37- And 55-across |
| 15
| THESOUNDOFMUSIC |
Rodgers And Hammerstein's "do-re-mi" Show, With A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
| 15
| SIGNFORDELIVERY |
Accept A Package Formally ... Or A Hint To 17-, 29-, 45- And 62-across? |
| 15
| ADROPINTHEOCEAN |
Insignificant Amount ... Or Hint To This Puzzle's Shaded Squares |
| 15
| THIRTYSOMETHING |
Baby-boomer Series That Starred Ken Olin |
| 21
| FOLLOWTHEBOUNCINGBALL |
Karaoke Instruction ... Or What To Do Starting At 10-down |
