| OUIJA | Word found between "YES" and "NO" |
| MAYBE | Answer between "yes" and "no" |
| SUCH | Word found before and after "and," in a phrase |
| OPENFIRE | 'Chestnuts roasting' spot ... and a hint to a divided word found in the answers to starred clues |
| MARCHMADNESS | Annual sports event that begins with Selection Sunday on 3/15 ... or, cryptically, a hint to the scrambled word found at the starts of 20-, 29-, 37- and |
| EMPERORS | Word, found in the names of giant peacock moths, large penguins, marbles, red grapes and woodland-dwelling purple butterflies, for male rulers, such as Roman Caesars (8) |
| TOT | Word found in an old phrase translating as "blow for blow" or "quid pro quo"; or, an accumulation of odds and ends of little value (3) |
| LAST | Final word found in the four longest Across answers |
| ADDICT | "Junkie" is a word found in a bad dictionary (6) |
| EON | Word found in "time on end," appropriately |
| FOCI | Word found in the definition of "ellipse" |
| YOURS | Word found before "sincerely" or "faithfully" in a letter (5) |
| SHELTERED | Word found in the definition of "alee" |
| ALE | Word found in TEETOTALER, ironically |
| ARS | MGM motto word, found on its logo |
| IBID | Latin word found in footnotes (4) |
| THE | Word found in many, many sentences |
| SAO | Word found in the name of many Brazilian cities |
| IBIDEM | Word found in footnotes |
| DIME | Word found beneath an oak branch |
