| MIDDLEMAN | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| SCRAP | Fight may be cut out and booked (5) |
| MUSTARD | What must be cut to reach the required level? |
| PIZZA | First article to be cut out of square dish |
| ASP | Snake that you must banish from eight answers to make sense of their clues |
| STENCIL | Client's avant-garde decoration? One must be cut out for it (7) |
| FRETWORK | Twerk for dancing? This must be cut out |
| DOUBLE | Word that must precede 17-, 19-, 34-, 55-, and 58-Across to make sense of their clues |
| AIRDROP | Share from phone to phone, or what you must do to this grid seven times for the answers to make sense |
| RIPPEDABS | Many a gymgoer's goal ... or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| IBEFOREE | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| PRO | It's a plus, and what must be added to 14-, 20- and 29-Across |
| CON | It's a minus, and what must be subtracted from 46-, 52- and 63-Across |
| NOEL | Christmas season... or a phonetic hint to how the starred clues must be read in order to make sense of their answers |
| TWO | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| DROPINS | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| AROUND | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| MIDDLEPARTS | Features of many Gen-Z hairstyles ... and what the starred clues' answers could be considered vis-a-vis their clues |
| TAKEAKNEE | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| AKFORTYSEVEN | Gun, and a description of answers to asterisked clues if the numbers within their clues are summed (12) |
