| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| AK? | 3 |
| Showing the ropes to | 20 |
| Publicly disrupting a concerto? | 31 |
| Program interruption | 20 |
| "Uh-oh, there's a ball and glass shards under the window"? | 72 |
| Soap interruption? | 18 |
| Letters that aren't cohesive? | 33 |
| Remission of big toe inflammation? | 34 |
| Time of great strain | 20 |
| Critical moment | 15 |
| Dog that destroys stuff? | 24 |
| Setting new standards | 21 |
| Winning it all at a casino | 26 |
| The farmer got busted for ___ | 29 |
| Getting rid of a bad habit? | 27 |
| Dear John? | 10 |
| Surf zone sights | 16 |
| Hack, say | 9 |
| Enter forcibly, as a home | 25 |
| Start getting visibly nervous | 29 |
| Start getting nervous | 21 |
| Smash to smithereens | 20 |
| Start serenading suddenly | 25 |
| Score the first points in a tennis game? | 40 |
| Smash a meal? | 13 |
| '80s Matthew Wilder smash | 29 |
| Dangerously fast | 16 |
| Recklessly fast | 15 |
| Overfast | 8 |
| Fast and dangerous | 18 |
| 90 m.p.h., e.g. | 15 |
| Water cooler gossip? | 20 |
| "When I Come Around" getting heavy play on MTV? | 57 |
| Save from disgrace? | 19 |
| Renege on a promise | 19 |
| "___ (To the Other Side)" | 35 |
| Snap the seal | 13 |
| Access using force | 18 |
| Get loose from a calaboose | 26 |
| React badly | 11 |
| Jail escapes | 12 |
| Can openings? | 13 |
| Newly famous celebrity | 22 |
| 30-40, say, in a tennis game | 28 |
| Tense tennis situation | 22 |
| Court situation | 15 |
| Chance for a win on the court | 29 |
| Place to grab some coffee | 25 |
| Rest period during a fight? | 27 |
| Goes to pieces? | 15 |
| Separations | 11 |
| Pool openings | 13 |
| What born losers don't seem to get | 38 |
| What born losers don't get | 30 |
| These can be lucky | 18 |
| The Jitters hit " 'Til the Fever ____ " | 53 |
| Starts a pool game | 18 |
| First shots in billiards | 24 |
| What a duffer does at times | 27 |
| Has a meal with company | 23 |
| Box of doughnuts for coffee time at the office? | 47 |
| Sampras aim, often | 18 |
| Wins one, loses one | 19 |
| Has no profit or loss | 21 |
| ___ lunch (quits working to eat) | 32 |
| Uses a keyless entry system? | 28 |
| Gets used to new shoes | 22 |
| Suddenly sobs | 13 |
| Ends a relationship badly | 25 |
| Severs ties | 11 |
| Wins big | 8 |
| Cracks a little joke to ease tension, say | 41 |
| Gets a party going | 18 |
| Splits, as a couple | 19 |
| Parts company | 13 |
| Gives up, as a tradition | 24 |
| Tame some mean dogs? | 20 |
| The demolitions expert tried to ... | 35 |
| Get a party going | 17 |
| Start a friendship, in a way | 28 |
| Overcome unfamiliarity | 22 |
| Crack a little joke | 19 |
| Overcome unfamiliarity, in a way | 32 |
| Introduce one's self | 24 |
| Get party guests to start mingling | 34 |
| Ease into conversation | 22 |
| Begin a conversation | 20 |
| Reveal for the first time | 25 |
| Subdivide some pizza? | 21 |
| Milestone of success | 20 |
| Make a sudden advance | 21 |
| Initial success | 15 |
| Good for a scientist, bad for a roofer | 38 |
| Dissolution | 11 |
| Disintegrations | 15 |
| Last go around, in modern-day jargon | 36 |
| Bumping into someone you never want to see again? | 49 |
| 1973 song by The Stylistics | 27 |
| 1973 hit by the Stylistics | 26 |