| 6
| SPIRAL |
When Preceded By [the Circled Letters], Natural Shape Said To Be Seen In 61-across And 27-down |
| 5
| THREE |
Number Of 101-acrosses In [see Circled Letters] |
| 7
| CHINESE |
With 43-across, Historical Period Found In Each Set Of Circled Letters |
| 7
| PARTING |
With 58-across, What This Puzzle's Circled Letters Are ... Or What They're Doing |
| 9
| LIMESTONE |
Approximately 5.5 Million Tons Of It Was Used To Build [see Circled Letters] |
| 9
| LOOSEENDS |
Unresolved Details ... And A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 10
| GUTFEELING |
Intuition Without Logical Explanation, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 11
| GOLDENRATIO |
Numerical Constant Associated With [the Circled Letters] |
| 12
| BACKUPSINGER |
One Helping In A Band ... Or What Can Be Found In Each Set Of Circled Letters? |
| 12
| SEVENWONDERS |
With 51-across And 15-down, Group In Which [see Circled Letters] Is The Only One Still Largely Intact |
| 13
| PATHTOVICTORY |
Election Night Calculation ... Or What's Traced By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| FALLINTOPLACE |
Become Clear ... Or Make Like The Object Represented By The Circled Letters |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 3
| TOP |
#1 |
| 3
| USA |
Letters On A Forever Stamp |
| 3
| SPF |
Letters On Some Foundations |
| 3
| VIP |
Letters On A Pass |
| 3
| AKA |
Letters Before An Alias |
| 3
| VSO |
Letters On A Bottle Of Brandy |
| 3
| IMO |
Letters Of Qualification |
| 3
| AKA |
Letters Between Two Names |
| 3
| AKA |
Letters Before An Alternate Name |
| 3
| LSD |
Letters That Might Change Your Mind? |
| 3
| STL |
Letters Seen On N.f.l. Scoreboards Between 1995 And 2015 |
| 3
| BON |
When Doubled, A Candy |
| 3
| TOP |
Number 1, With "the" |
| 3
| REF |
One With A Whistle ... Who Sometimes 1-across? |
| 3
| MIN |
The 1 In {1,2,3} Abbr. |
| 3
| ADA |
Tube Letters |
| 3
| NAE |
When Doubled, A 2010s Dance Craze |
| 3
| NAE |
When Doubled, A 2010s Dance Fad |
| 3
| TEN |
Cube Root Of 1,000 |
| 3
| CHA |
When Doubled, A Dance |
| 3
| TOO |
When Doubled, Excessive |
| 3
| HAR |
When Doubled, Sarcastic Laugh |
| 3
| TUT |
When Repeated, An Expression Of Disapproval |
| 3
| ETE |
When To Take A Cruise On La Seine |
| 3
| FYI |
Letters Accompanying A Tip |
| 3
| AHA |
You Say It When You "get It" |
| 3
| MOS |
1-12 Abbr. |
| 3
| ONE |
1/2 + 1/2 |
| 3
| PAC |
Campaign Fund-raising Letters |
| 3
| SPF |
Beach Bottle Letters |
| 3
| YTD |
1/1 'til Present Abbr. |
| 3
| TEA |
Bags One Might Have When Tired? |
| 3
| WAP |
2020 #1 Hit For Cardi B And Megan Thee Stallion |
| 4
| OKRA |
Vegetable That Becomes Gooey When Cooked |
| 4
| FISH |
See 1-across |
| 4
| RPMS |
33 1/3, 45 And 78, For Short |
| 4
| RANK |
List From 1 To ... |
| 4
| GRAF |
Tennis Great With The Most Consecutive Weeks Ranked #1 In The World (377) |
| 4
| IKEA |
Store With A Three-syllable Name In Four Letters |
| 4
| OSHA |
Org. Issuing Vaccine Standards Starting In 2021 |
| 4
| NYPD |
1-across In Manhattan, For Short |
| 4
| SEED |
Starting Point |
| 4
| IKEA |
Company That Uses About 1% Of The World's Wood Supply Annually |
| 4
| BANG |
When Doubled, Attention-grabbing |
| 4
| ECTO |
___-1 ("ghostbusters" Vehicle) |
| 4
| MAHI |
When Doubled, Hawaiian Food Fish |
| 4
| HINT |
When Doubled, Not-so-subtle Nudge |
| 4
| ONIT |
"i'm Starting Right Now!" |
| 4
| CHIN |
Keep This Up When You're Down |
| 4
| PLEA |
Word That, Fittingly, Contains All Four Different Letters Of Appeal |
| 4
| ACTV |
When Lady Macbeth Cries "out, Damned Spot!" |
| 4
| JUNE |
When Most Geminis Are Born |
| 4
| RSVP |
Invitation Letters |
| 4
| RHOS |
Letters After Pis |
| 4
| APSE |
Word That Sounds Like A Plural Of 1-down |
| 4
| WELL |
When Said Three Times, "what Have We Here?!" |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| ATEAM |
Starting Squad |
| 5
| MCGEE |
"me And Bobby ___" (posthumous #1 Hit For Janis Joplin) |
| 5
| ATTEN |
When Some Local News Comes On |
| 5
| CIGAR |
The World's Most Expensive One, The Gurkha Royal Courtesan, Costs Over $1.3 Million |
| 5
| NIGHT |
When Repeated, Call To Someone Going To Bed |
| 5
| PROBE |
Voyager 1, For One |
| 5
| ENERO |
When El Día De Los Reyes Is Celebrated |
| 5
| FLASK |
Small Container For Carrying A Drink When Away From Home |
| 5
| PRNDL |
Letters On A Gearshift |
| 5
| SORER |
Less Gracious When Losing, Say |
| 5
| HEYYA |
2003 #1 Outkast Hit |
| 5
| DIMES |
Coins That Are 1.35 Mm Thick |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| AGING |
Going From 0 To 100, Say |
| 5
| VISAS |
H-1b And B-1, For Two |
| 5
| ABBAS |
Palestinian President Starting In 2005 |
| 5
| KHUFU |
Fill In This Answer With Letters From Five Clue Numbers 74, 92, 21, 52, 118 |
| 6
| EOCENE |
Epoch When Palm Trees Grew In Alaska |
| 6
| ATFIVE |
When Happy Hour Often Begins |
| 6
| FTYPES |
Jaguar Two-seaters Starting In 2013 |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| FIVEPM |
When Many Commutes Begin |
| 6
| WEEZER |
Band With The Lyrics "when I Was Younger, I Used To Go And Tip Cows For Fun, Yeah / Actually, I Didn't Do That 'cause I Didn't Want The Cow To Be Sad" |
| 6
| ATNINE |
When A Prime-time Drama Might Air |
| 6
| YEEZUS |
2013 #1 Album From Kanye West |
| 6
| SHADOW |
It's Shortest When The Sun Is Directly Overhead |
| 6
| BADDAY |
When Nothing Goes Right |
| 6
| SISTER |
When Doubled, Popular 1990s Sitcom Featuring Tia And Tamera Mowry |
| 6
| HEARYE |
When Repeated, Old-time Call To Listen |
| 6
| PAGODA |
Place Of Worship Whose Third, Fourth And Fifth Letters Are Appropriate |
| 6
| VOSTOK |
___ 1, Yuri Gagarin's Spacecraft |
| 6
| SOLLAL |
Korean New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 7
| ONSIGHT |
When Viewed |
| 7
| SOLANGE |
Singer With The 2016 #1 Album "a Seat At The Table" |
| 7
| HAALAND |
Deb ___, Secretary Of The Interior Starting In 2021 |
| 7
| TUESDAY |
Calendar Column ... Or A Punny Hint To The Circled Squares |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| OHIGETIT |
Line When You're Late To The Punch Line |
| 9
| KISSIMMEE |
Florida City Whose Name Has Three Pairs Of Doubled Letters |
| 9
| GETSALLAS |
Has A 4.0 Average |
| 9
| EVOLUTION |
Word That Becomes More Dramatic When You Add An "r" In Front |
| 9
| MRSANDMAN |
1950s #1 Hit With The Repeated Lyric "bring Me A Dream" |
| 9
| HESAREBEL |
1962 #1 Hit For The Crystals Featuring A Biker On The Record Sleeve |
| 10
| MERETRIFLE |
When The Dessert Was Brought Out, [zap!] The Pudding Cake Turned Into A ... |
| 10
| SMALLFRIES |
When The Appetizers Were Passed Around, [zap!] The Potato Wedges Turned Into ... |
| 11
| BEATTOTHEAW |
Preceded In Commenting On An Adorable Kitten Photo, Say? |
| 11
| LETSGOCRAZY |
Lost, E.g. (#1, 1984) |
| 11
| GWENSTEFANI |
Singer With The 2016 #1 Album "this Is What The Truth Feels Like" |
| 12
| MICROSECONDS |
Finally, When The Still-hungry Guests Went Back For More, [zap!] The Additional Helpings Turned Into ... |
| 12
| SILVERLINING |
Upside, When Down |
| 13
| NAMEOFTHEGAME |
Something's Essential Aspect ... Or What's Spelled Out By Letters In This Puzzle's Eight "cups" |
| 14
| JUDYINDISGUISE |
Chan_e _ppea_ance To Concea_ _ _d Mislea_ (#1, 1968) |
| 14
| SPRINGFESTIVAL |
Chinese New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 15
| ATOMICSUBMARINE |
When The Main Course Was Ready, [zap!] The Six-foot Hoagie Turned Into An ... |
| 15
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN |
Thoroughly ... Or A Hint For Parsing Some Lowercase Letters In Four Of This Puzzle's Clues |
| 21
| FOLLOWTHEBOUNCINGBALL |
Karaoke Instruction ... Or What To Do Starting At 10-down |
