| PEDXING | Street sign ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| GREEKCROSS | Religious symbol resembling a plus sign ... or a hint to the three groups of circled squares in this puzzle |
| CROSS | A hybrid; symbol such as saltire or plus sign; or, a football pass (5) |
| OMEN | Sign... or a description of the answers to the six starred clues? |
| TOKEN | A sign or symbol; a coin-like disc used as a substitute for money in a slot machine; a memento; or, a voucher exchanged for a book (5) |
| RULER | Item often found in a pencil-case with crayons, erasers, felt-tip pens, scissors, sharpeners etc; a term for a planet held to influence a given zodiacal sign; or, an emperor, monarch, raja or other le |
| SNIFF | A smell perceived through a human or scent hound's nose; an amount inhaled through said rhinal snoot; or, a hint, sign or other figurative whiff (5) |
| RACK | From French for "axe", a dish of chopped cooked meat and potatoes, reheated with or without gravy/sauce; a jumble, mess or mixture; the # sign; or, from "fodder, hay, herbage", a short name for the re |
| TRAIL | Beaten or blazed path in the wilds; or, a series of signs or clues such as footprints, spoor or line-shaped vaporous clouds marking the passage of a person, quarry or aircraft (5) |
| NOTICE | From the Latin for "known", an intimation such as a placard, poster, sign or small ad; or, a short published artistic, dramatic or literary review (6) |
| MONOGRAM | Translating as "word letter", a term for a single character, sign or symbol representing a word or phrase (8) |
| RADICAL | The base form of a word, a political extremist, a reactive chemical species, sign or zero of a function, all linked by the concept of "root" (7) |
| NOTATION | A sign or symbol used to represent the elements in music or mathematics |
| CUE | A sign or intimation to an actor when to speak, etc. (3) |
| AQUARIUS | Astrological sign, or a song from 18 Across (8) |
| HANDLE | Feel of a textile; CB user's call sign; or, the bail of a bucket or kettle (6) |
| PASSWITHCAUTION | Road sign, or advice to a QB |
| IGNORE | Some sign or expect to be able to disregard it (6) |
| PRESAGE | Be a sign or warning of (something about to happen) |
| NOENTRY | "Keep out!" sign ... or, in three parts, each answer to a starred clue |
