| CLIMATECHANGE | What the gray squares in the grid literally illustrate |
| SLINGSHOT | What some of the black squares in the grid might represent |
| ASH | What the gray line in the center of Humboldt Fog cheese is composed of |
| BAT | What the gray-headed flying fox actually is |
| QUETZAL | Main currency unit of Guatemala, divided into Arrow words are like crosswords, but the clues are printed inside squares on the grid. Write your answers in the blank squares in the direction indicated |
| FORMATION | Following the nine black squares in the center of the grid, a hint to five pairs of answers in this |
| SOMETHINGSFISHY | "Hmmmmm ..." [as hinted at by the three groups of black squares in the middle of the grid] |
| SHARKINFESTEDWATERS | Dangerous area for those in the top row of this puzzle, and a hint to the words under the six black tins in the grid |
| FRUITROLLUP | '90s lunchbox staple, and what can be found in the six areas indicated in the grid |
| THREE | Number of squares in the width and height of this puzzle's city blocks |
| BETWEENTHELINES | Where hidden meanings are found, and where both sets of four horizontal black squares in the puzzle are |
| FOREXAMPLE | Say at length in English what's hidden in the grid (3,7) |
| NIGHT | Close to the square in the dark |
| COMPASSPT | Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue |
| REFER | Pairs. There are two places in the grid where each pair can be inserted -either is correct. For example, alternate letters in ATTEST and STREET are the same (aTtEsT and sTrEeT). One unnumbered solutio |
| COMPASS | Instrument whose four ordinal points are represented by the initials of the four starred entries, which also explains their placement in the grid |
| SPIN | With the circled word in the grid's center, what each circled word is? |
| CABANAS | [One arrangement of the letters in the grid] |
| REAR | [Another arrangement of the letters in the grid] |
| SEAL | [Another arrangement of the letters in the grid] |
