| MARCHMADNESS | Annual college basketball tourney, rounds of which can be found in the circled squares at their appropriate numbers |
| ARCH | ___ Madness (annual college-basketball tournament held in St. Louis) |
| NITPICKER | Person choosing teams for an annual college basketball event? |
| TERRIERMIX | Hybrid dog breed, literal examples of which can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| CROSSREFERENCES | "See also" notations ... or what can be found in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| PINS | Bowlers' targets ... 10 of which can be found appropriately arranged in this puzzle |
| LAMBSLETTUCE | Plant often growing in cornfields, the leaves of which can be used in salads (5,7) |
| BLACKCATS | Unlucky symbols, four of which can be found in this puzzle |
| SIRIUS | Brightest star in the night sky which can be found in the Canis Major constellation (6) |
| EASTEREGG | Hidden DVD feature ... which can be found, literally, in the answers to the |
| GAIT | Horse's pace, which can be found jumping across black squares in rows 3, 6, 10 and 14 of this grid |
| BATARANGS | DC Comics weapons, one of which can be seen at the Smithsonian |
| DOPAMINE | Chemical in brain tissue acting as a neurotransmitter; a lack of which can be associated with Parkin |
| 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) |
| ROSEHIP | A seed-filled bulb of a common prickly plant, an extract of which can be taken to reduce stiffness (4,3) |
| ROOK | Any one of four chess pieces occupying the corner squares at the beginning of a game (4) |
| LIPPSINC | Tar Heel St. city named for a part of the mouth with a trident-shaped Greek letter written on it? ... or, when parsed differently, the band with the No. 1 hit spelled out in the circled squares |
| BARRACUDA | Large, predatory salt-water fish which can be found in the waters around Mallorca (9) |
| SPLITTICKET | Voter's crossover ballot, and what can literally be found in the circled letters |
