| LALALAND | 2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn't!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues? |
| SITTIGHT | Maintain the same position and wait it out |
| HMM | "Wait, it'll come to me..." |
| DISMISSAL | Favorite time of the school day for some teachers and students, or a two-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| SUB | Prefix for the answers to starred clues, and word needed for those clues to make sense |
| SEEOUT | Show the door, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| RVPARK | Place for Winnebagos ... and for the answers to the starred clues? |
| ISEE | Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| TEASEOUT | Untangle carefully, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues? |
| ENDIN | Conclude with, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| DONTTAKETHEBAIT | Warning for easily provoked types ... or for the answers to the six starred clues? |
| RAFTERS | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| PUT | Place, and a fitting follower to the endings of the starred entries |
| MALTIN | Critic who wrote the shortest review ever given to a motion picture: "No" for 1948's "Isn't It Roman |
| TRITE | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| SILVERSCREEN | Setting for the answers to the three starred clues - appropriately enough, given their initials |
| HALLOWEEN | Occasion for the answers to the five starred clues |
| ABC | Kind of order for the answers to the starred clues |
| THISISNOTATOY | Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues |
| KANGAROOWORDS | Term for the answers to the starred clues (Hint: they contain "joeys") |
