| LGBTQRIGHTS | Same-sex marriage and others, or a hint to the last letters of both words of 16-, 23-, 34-, 37- and 48-Across |
| DEADENDS | Unfruitful paths ... or a description of both words in the answers to the seven starred clues? |
| THERESTISEASY | "You're over the hump" ... and a hint to the last letters of the words in 16-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| SAMPLE | Small part to represent others or a whole (6) |
| BERRYPATCH | Picking place, or a hint to the ends of 16-, 23-, 34- and 47-Across collectively |
| RITES | Marriage and others |
| CODEWORDS | Encrypted terms, or a hint to the first two letters of both parts of the starred answers? |
| OUTOFDANGER | Safe ... or how the last words of 16-, 23- and 49-Across are made? |
| PASSOVERMEALS | Ascension Day and others ... or, literally, what can be found four times in this puzzle |
| BRAD | Common letters of both the people in this video |
| TANDEM | With punning use of the Latin for "at length", word for a carriage drawn by a long set-up of two horses, one behind the other; or, a bicycle for two riders in a similar lengthy formation (6) |
| GREEK | With 58-Across, "Antigone" and others ... or, when reinterpreted, a hint to 17-, 31- and 50-Across |
| RINGLEADER | Mastermind, and what the first word of 16-, 23-, 35-, or 45-Across can be |
| FUGUE | From "flight", a contrapuntal composition in which a number of parts/voices enter successively in imitation of each other; or, a psychogenic flight from reality (5) |
| HOPIN | Words to a hitchhiker, and a literal hint to what spans both words of the answers to starred clues |
| TRIPLEPLAY | Baseball rarity, and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44- Across |
| BUNK | One of a pair of single berths or shelflike beds, one above the other; or, from the name of a North Carolinian county alluded to in an inane speech, a word for claptrap, humbug or tedious nonsense (4) |
| ATLAST | Etta James song, and a hint to the final letters in both words of the starred clues' answers |
| BUSYBODY | A pantopragmatic or quidnunc meddling in the affairs of others; or, invented by Benjamin Franklin, a type of three-way mirror arranged at a window to show the street below (8) |
| TELESTICH | Acrostic or short poem in which the last letters of each line form a word or phrase (9) |
