| BREAKDANCE | Debut sport at the Pan's Olympics, or what 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across do to their circled letters |
| BREAKTHEICE | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| HOOPER | Former Wallabies captain eyeing Pan's Olympics sevens team berth (6) |
| SEALEDWITHAKISS | Love letter message often accompanied by a lipstick mark, and what the answers to the starred clues are, thanks to their circled letters |
| BEEKEEPER | Apiculturist ... and, playfully, what 16-, 22-, 36- or 49-Across is |
| GAINWEIGHT | What 18-, 23-, 37- and 46-Across do to become puns? |
| BREAKING | 2024 Olympics debut sport (8) |
| ELANA | ___ Meyers Taylor will compete in debut sport of monobob (5) |
| STAYSINVEGAS | Second half of a famous tourism slogan, and what 16-, 22-, 43-, and 51-Across literally are |
| ASCEND | It's what 18 across do to shoot up (6) |
| SPELLOUT | Explain in detail or what the starts of 19-, 26- and 46- Across do, phonetically? |
| MADETHEROUNDS | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| THATSAWRAP | "Aaand ... scene!" ... or an observation about the end of 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across |
| ROASTERS | Pigs, potatoes or poults suitable for oven-cooking; the pans in which they are parched or prepared; people or places who/which cook coffee beans; or, hot scorching days (8) |
| BLACKANDWHITE | Like a zebra, or two words that can precede the starts of 19-, 24-, 36- and 46- Across |
| SINGHHISPRAISES | What the NDP would do to their leader if they won the next election? |
| SNOOKER | Game or what players try to do to their opponents in that game (7) |
| CURLINGSTONES | Items guided by brooms in the Winter Olympics ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| FOLLOWTHELEADER | Simon Says relative, and a hint to what happens after the starts of 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across |
| SUGARCOAT | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
