| CUBEROOT | Sort of 3 - beet, perhaps - as 3 of 10 and 17 (4,4) |
| HOLLYWOOD | Word whose huge letters comprise a famous sign in the hills of Los Angeles; its 7th and 8th letters, as well as three of the same letter temporarily added above it, were painted the colors of the Olym |
| SUNK | In seas unkind, as were the 10 and 17 - by 15 and 19 down (4) |
| OUTS | A baseball triple play counts as three of these |
| BETEL | Do such nuts taste like beet, perhaps, to an apprentice? (5) |
| VERBATIM | Ends of 10 and 20 could be rendered identically |
| THOUSAND | The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 |
| TRICORNE | What sort of three-cornered hat is central to the hydroelectric or Neanderthaloid? (8) |
| EIGHTEEN | The sum of 10 and 8 (8) |
| GOLDBERG | Heavy metal composer, blogger excited about date, or mountain as 3 set by Bach? (8,10) |
| TWOFACED | The above god is depicted as ...- ..... (3-5) |
| KEEPITUP | Continue the good work as 3 can be seen to do? (4,2,2) |
| AVEMARIA | 1825 Schubert piece arranged as three piano versions by Liszt (3,5) |
| EPIPHANY | Feast day also known as Three Kings' Day (8) |
| BELLOC | Author of work by 10 with little piece of 10 and 25 (6) |
| RUPERT | Rugby forward, namesake of 10 and half of 1 (6) |
| ISH | Suffix that is used to mean "sort of" (3) |
| COXCOMB | Dandy has combo of 10 and 100 to make (7) |
| INAWAY | Sort of: 3 wds. |
| ORAL | Painful experience, heartless sort of 3 |