| SPLITTICKET | Ballot featuring a vote for more than one party, and what you must do to understand 95 Down |
| DJSET | Track mix for a party, and what the five longest Across answers comprise |
| IDIOTIC | I will participate in one party and movement? That's daft |
| SIDED | Favoured one party and, after last drinks, died anyhow (5) |
| SECRETSANTA | Gift-giver at a certain office party ... and what's hidden inside the answers of 17-, 27-, and 43-Across |
| DROPCAP | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| JOINTRESOLUTION | Proposal involving more than one party (rough bar about what you're looking for?) (5,10) |
| AIRDROP | Share from phone to phone, or what you must do to this grid seven times for the answers to make sense |
| DROPTHEBEAT | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| BIPARTISAN | Contract offer is blindly loyal to one side in agreement involving more than one party (10) |
| ANARCHY | "A vote for Bart is a vote for ___!" (campaign slogan for both Martin and Bart, on the Simpsons episode "Lisa's Substitute") |
| RAISETHEDEAD | Bring people back to life, and what you must do in four rows in this puzzle |
| BREAKEVEN | Have a balance between income and expenditures, and what you must do to understand 11 Down |
| ADS | What TiVo users may skip over ... and what you must skip over to understand this puzzle's theme |
| CRUNCHTIME | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
| SPINCLASSES | Intense cycling sessions ... or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| BILATERAL | A Liberal split over time involving more than one party? |
| SHUFFLE | What you may need to do to understand the four sets of circled letters |
| DIAL | What you must do to make a 'phone call' |
| GYRATE | What you must do to use a hula hoop |
