| ONAGAINOFFAGAIN | Intermittent, as a romance, or what's in the starred answers |
| LOVE | "P.S. I ___ You" (2007 Hilary Swank romance...or what she'll end each note to her kids with?) |
| PATCHY | Intermittent, as fog |
| DAYANDNIGHT | All the time, as well as a hint to the abbreviations hidden in the starred answers |
| CAROL | "Deck the Halls," for one ... or a hint to the first two letters of each word in the starred answers |
| GROUPCHAT | Conversation among friends ... or a hint to the animal collectives in the starred answers and the conversations that follow them |
| STAFFTURNOVER | Personnel concern ... or a hint to the synonyms hidden backward in the starred answers |
| LATIN | Like the alphabet in Vatican City ... or each letter in the starred answers |
| GREEK | Like the alphabet in Athens ... or each letter in the starred answers |
| FLIESSOUTH | Migrates for the winter, and a hint to the shift in the starred answers |
| CYRILLIC | Like the alphabet in Moscow ... or each letter in the starred answers |
| TYPOS | Mistakes in the starred answers? (read the "wrong" letters in order for a bonus!) |
| CANTERBURYTALES | Story collection (with "The") in which the surnames in the starred answers are characters |
| NEWSLANG | 2001 single by The Shins (and a hint to the synonyms in the starred answers' shaded squares) |
| LEGOBRICK | *Building block that may be inserted into or removed from a set one by one (as seen in the starred answers' first words) |
| INNERCITY | Densely populated area, and a hint to the capitals in the starred answers |
| PRNDL | Gearshift letters, in the order they're shifted in the starred answers |
| THISANDTHAT | Miscellany, and a hint to the hidden words in the starred answers |
| CRIESUNCLE | Succeeds (or fails) at finding the names hidden in the starred answers? |
| BACKSTORY | Fictional past, or a hint to four-letter words found in the starred answers |
