| Word that can mean "a hit" or "a miss" | 58 |
| Word that can mean "attach" or "separate" | 61 |
| Word that can mean "deteriorate" or "resist deterioration" | 78 |
| Word that can mean "entangle" or "disentangle" | 66 |
| Word that can mean "gone" or "remaining" | 60 |
| Word that can mean "join together" or "fall apart" | 70 |
| Word that can mean "now" or "later" | 55 |
| Word that can mean "show" or "hide" | 55 |
| Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle | 117 |
| Word that can precede either part of each starred clue's answer | 67 |
| Word that can precede or follow "first" | 49 |
| Word that can precede the answer to each starred clue | 53 |
| Word that can precede the first word of answers to asterisked clues | 67 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues | 75 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the six longest puzzle answers | 70 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the twelve starred entries in this puzzle | 81 |
| Word that can precede the last word of the four longest entries | 63 |
| Word that can precede the last word of the four longest puzzle answers | 70 |
| Word that can precede the start of the theme entries | 52 |
| Word that causes division | 25 |
| Word that Christian Malaysians can't use | 44 |
| Word that closes the bidding | 28 |
| Word that comes from another word | 33 |
| Word that comes from the Arabic for "forbidden place" | 63 |
| Word that comes from the Greek for "indivisible" | 58 |
| Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" | 90 |
| Word that contains a six-letter state | 37 |
| Word that could follow the first word of the theme entries | 58 |
| Word that could mean “become too small to see” or “similar to a family vehicle” | 95 |
| Word that could mean “before Samuel Johnson’s 1755 book” or “related to fortunetelling” | 107 |
| Word that could mean “force vacationers to vacate” or “one who takes alternate routes” | 102 |
| Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
| Word that could mean “sparsely filled with settlers” or “added a certain punctuation mark to” | 109 |
| Word that declares continued possession in the possessor's absence | 70 |
| Word that describes a group of varying, but related, subjects | 61 |
| Word that ends many fights | 26 |
| Word that first appears in Matthew 1:1 | 38 |
| Word that follows 17-A, 61-A, 10-D and 25-D | 43 |
| Word that follows the first word of the theme entries | 53 |
| Word that gets "dropped" | 34 |
| Word that gets "Polo" as a response | 45 |
| Word that gets under a grammarian's skin | 44 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| Word that goes in both blanks of "___ early and ___ often" | 68 |
| Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
| Word that goes in either blank of the David Bowie classic "___ to ___" | 80 |
| Word that goes with message? | 28 |
| Word that had "omni" at its start before apheresis | 60 |
| Word that has ended many fights | 31 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings | 48 |
| Word that has two diametrically opposed meanings (like this puzzle's eight theme entries) | 93 |
| Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starred clue | 106 |
| Word that includes three of itself | 34 |
| Word that is an example of itself | 33 |
| Word that is both a synonym and an antonym for "blow" | 63 |
| Word that is its own synonym when spelled backward | 50 |
| Word that is not possessive with an apostrophe | 46 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front | 74 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end | 72 |
| Word that leads to some starts? | 31 |
| Word that led to the "Why a duck?" routine by the Marx brothers | 73 |
| Word that makes grammarians cringe | 34 |
| Word that makes one feel welcome | 32 |
| Word that may accompany a handshake | 35 |
| Word that may appear above a silhouette of a man | 48 |
| Word that may be bid | 20 |
| Word that may be parsed | 23 |
| Word that may come before ego | 29 |
| Word that may elicit the response "And don't call me Shirley" | 75 |
| Word that may follow string or sing | 35 |
| Word that may follow the numbers one through twelve | 51 |
| Word that may lead to finger-pointing | 37 |
| Word that may precede itself | 28 |
| Word that may precede others? | 29 |
| Word that may precede twelve words in this puzzle's grid | 60 |
| Word that may stop a truck | 26 |
| Word that might accompany finger-pointing | 41 |
| Word that might be said in a Glasgow kiss-off | 45 |
| Word that might fix a spastic diaphragm | 39 |
| Word that often goes with beyond | 32 |
| Word that often precedes "showtime" | 45 |
| Word that once preceded "Germany" | 43 |
| Word that partners with "danke" | 41 |
| Word that precedes a sentence? | 30 |
| Word that precedes six other answers in this puzzle | 51 |
| Word that rarely ends a sentence | 32 |
| Word that references gum in candy names | 39 |
| Word that rhymes with its opposite | 34 |
| Word that sandwiches ''oh'' | 43 |
| Word that shouldn't precede ''estimate'' or ''replica'' | 91 |
| Word that shouldn't precede replica or estimate | 51 |
| Word that signals a sudden disappearance | 40 |
| Word that stops a nag? | 22 |
| Word that stops a street hockey game | 36 |
| Word that stops fire? | 21 |
| Word that stops some trucks? | 28 |
| Word that stops trucks | 22 |
| Word that stuck in Macbeth's throat | 39 |
| Word that the Lone Ranger says to Silver | 40 |
| Word that turns sarcastic when said blandly | 43 |