| HAMMEDITUP | Went all out on stage ... or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| MIDDLE | With 44-Down, educational stage ... or a hint to the contents of 18-, 22-, 47- |
| POSTHASTE | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| KITCHENMATCH | Pilot lighter, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| SCARYMOVIETWO | 2001 Wayans Brothers sequel, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| HEEEEERESJOHNNY | Classic TV intro which can be applied to the starts of the four other longest puzzle answers |
| RAILROADED | Convicted hastily and unfairly ... or, in a way, like the four other longest puzzle answers? |
| FIRSTTHINGSFIRST | "Start at the beginning," and a hint to the four other longest Across answers |
| HIDDENTAX | Income-reducing inequity, or what can be found in the four other longest puzzle answers |
| EMPTYWORDS | Blather, and a phonetic hint to the four other longest answers |
| LOWHANGINGFRUIT | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| RELAY | A set of fresh horses or hounds to relieve others on a stage or a chase, hence a relief gang; or, a lap or leg of a race between teams of runners (5) |
| HEARINGTHINGS | Fooled by one's imagination ... or, another way, what the four other longest puzzle answers are? |
| RANDOMORDER | Ideal deck-shuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers |
| DEUCESWILD | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| SHAPESHIFTERS | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| ANYMOMENT | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| GENEEDITING | Molecular manipulation technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers |
| TUMBLEWEEDS | Drifters in some Western scenes and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
| ELEMENTARY | Holmes' comment about the ends of the four other longest Across answers? |