| Parenthetical passage | 21 |
| Onstage thought balloon | 23 |
| Onstage digression | 18 |
| On reserve | 10 |
| Off the direct path | 19 |
| LP half | 7 |
| Lateral remark | 14 |
| In reserve Weakerthans tune? | 28 |
| In private | 10 |
| In a separate place | 19 |
| Hit song on a 45, usually | 25 |
| Dramatic ploy | 13 |
| Dramatic digression | 19 |
| Dialogue that breaks the fourth wall | 36 |
| Departure from the main message | 31 |
| Comment off the main point | 26 |
| Comment meant only for the audience | 35 |
| Cassette front | 14 |
| Away from the center | 20 |
| Actor's remark | 18 |
| Actor's line | 16 |
| Actor's comment to the audience | 35 |
| "Love Me Do" vis-Ã -vis "P.S. I Love You" | 63 |
| Words to no one in particular | 29 |
| Words never "heard" on stage | 38 |
| Words intended only for the audience | 36 |
| Whispered line on the stage | 27 |
| Whispered comment | 17 |
| Where a needle is usually put? | 30 |
| To the left or the right | 24 |
| Thinking out loud, in a way | 27 |
| Theatrical ploy | 15 |
| Theatrical excursion | 20 |
| The single (hyph.) | 18 |
| Tangent | 7 |
| Stage utterance | 15 |
| Stage secret | 12 |
| Stage muttering | 15 |
| Stage musing | 12 |
| Stage line intended for only the audience to hear | 49 |
| Spoken thought, onstage | 23 |
| Sotto-voce remark | 17 |
| Song much played on the radio | 29 |
| Some turn this way | 18 |
| Shylock's first one begins "How like a fawning publican he looks!" | 80 |
| Short digression | 16 |
| Shakespearean device | 20 |
| Set ___ (save) | 14 |
| Script notation | 15 |
| Remark to the crowd | 19 |
| Remark that breaks the fourth wall | 34 |
| Remark for the audience | 23 |
| Remark directed to the audience | 31 |
| Remark between actor and audience | 33 |
| Presley's "Don't," e.g., not "I Beg of You" | 71 |
| Player's sotto-voce remark | 30 |
| Player's remark | 19 |
| Play device | 11 |
| Place for kidding? | 18 |
| Pinero ploy | 11 |
| Parenthetical bit | 17 |
| Out of the mainstream | 21 |
| Out of one's mind? | 22 |
| Other characters don't hear it | 34 |
| Open secret onstage | 19 |
| Onstage thought bubble | 22 |
| One place to step | 17 |
| Off-subject comment | 19 |
| Off the direct course | 21 |
| Off from the center | 19 |
| Obiter dictum | 13 |
| Not the B one (hyph.) | 21 |
| Much-played part of a 45 | 24 |
| Main song, recordwise | 21 |
| Line that actors pretend not to hear | 36 |
| Line just for the audience | 26 |
| Line for the audience | 21 |
| It's supposedly not heard by other people on the stage | 58 |
| It's not heard by other characters | 38 |
| It might start "By the way ..." | 41 |
| It might be in parentheses | 26 |
| It breaks the fourth wall | 25 |
| Indirect remark | 15 |
| In the rainy-day fund, say | 26 |
| In reserve, as money | 20 |
| In escrow | 9 |
| Hamlet's first line, e.g. | 29 |
| Excluding, with "from" | 32 |
| Dramatist's ploy | 20 |
| Divagation | 10 |
| Discourse detour | 16 |
| Digressive remark | 17 |
| Digression of a sort | 20 |
| Delivery to the audience | 24 |
| Coward's ''To Step ___'' | 44 |
| Conversation tangent | 20 |
| Confidential comment | 20 |
| Comment to an audience | 22 |
| Comment in parentheses | 22 |
| Certain dramatic line | 21 |