| TURNTHETIDE | Reverse one's fortunes, or a hint to what's hidden in 21-, 26- and 43-Across |
| INNERVOICES | One's toughest critics, often, and, literally, three different words hidden in 21-, 26- and 43-Acros |
| UPTURN | A disturbance or disruption; an inverted or topsy-turvy part; a rising trend in fortunes or economic conditions; or, any improvement (6) |
| ATONESFOR | Makes amends for taking part of great one's fortunes (6,3) |
| NADIR | Lowest point of one's fortunes |
| BACKWARDDAY | Time to do things out of order, or what appears in 21-, 26-, and 43-Across |
| CONSONANTS | Group whose members are represented completely (with no repeats) in 21-, 26- and 43-Across |
| STAR | Word that could precede the last word in 21, 26, 43 |
| PALS | Friends that surround the answers to 21-, 26-, 43- and 50- Across |
| DOROTHYGALE | Character who, in a movie released nationally 70 years ago today, sang the ballad formed by the first words of 21-, 26- and 43-Across |
| REVERSE | Word for the contrary or opposite; the back of a coin; an untoward change of fortune or other setback; a backhanded sword stroke; or, a backwards direction (7) |
| BAAS | Sounds like 1A part of 2, 5, 12, 21, 26 or 27 ___ or a car backfiring? (4) |
| CHEQUERED | Victory sign with 21, 26 and 11 (9,4) |
| GLEE | Joy from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune; or, fostered in choral clubs/societies, a part-song for three or more solo male voices (4) |
| WEATHER | Day-to-day meteorological conditions; a prevailing situation; or, vicissitude of one's fortune (7) |
| BACKPEDAL | What is to hastily reverse one's previous action or opinion? (4-5) |
| TRICK | With 65-Across and "or", one of two Halloween choices, and a hint for the swaps in 21-, 26-, 43-, and 50-Across |
| DESTINY | Inevitable fate, fortune or future of a person or thing; or, personified by the mythological Moirai, the power that predetermines events (7) |
| SPEED | The rate at which something operates or moves; or, an old word for good fortune or success (5) |
| RAGSTORICHES | Tease ostriches in an innovative way to make one's fortune (4,2,6) |
