Crossword clues for Answer these clues:
- BOOKDROPS
- Places to return library materials, and a hint to how the authors in four Down clues help complete the answers to the starred clues
- TOPS
- With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have
- COMPOUND
- With 49-Across, bad break ... and what each answer to a starred clue creates vis-à-vis the answers that define it
- MIDDLEPARTS
- Features of many Gen-Z hairstyles ... and what the starred clues' answers could be considered vis-a-vis their clues
- CAP
- With "and" and 40-Across, emissions-reducing method whose first word (this answer) can follow the start of the answers to starred clues
- CUTTINGTHECARDS
- Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual ... or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues
- THEDAILYJUMBLE
- Answer to the riddle (After unscrambling the four starred clues, arrange the circled letters to form the answer)
- ICE
- With 40-Across and "Baby," a 1990's hip-hop hit that answers the question, "What can precede both parts of the answers to starred clues?"
- WANNABET
- Care to wager? ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues
- WARMINGDRAWER
- One sketching part of a bird? (Hint: This clue's answer ignores squares 2-4. Enter a body part in those squares to create valid, unclued Across and Down answers.)
- FROMDAWN
- *With 61-Across, wakeful hours, or where the last words in the starred clues' answers will take you
- OPENSEASON
- Period when criticism might pour in, and a hint to the words that bookend the starred clues' answers
- DROPINHOURS
- Times to pop by, and a feature of the starred clues' answers (hint: include two letters below them)
- MYTHREESONS
- 1960-'72 sitcom starring Fred MacMurray, and a hint to the initials of the starred clues' answers
- REALITYWARPING
- Superpower that can alter material existence ... and a feature of the starred clues' answers
- SHOOTINGSTAR
- Meteor that might be wished upon ... and a literal hint to the asterisked clues' answers
- SILENTPARTNER
- Investor with a limited role ... or the unpronounced letters in the first words of the starred clues' answers, collectively?
- SUNBLOCK
- Beach trip essential, or any of three squares in this grid that affects the starred clues' answers?
- JUSTATRIM
- Salon request that hints at the letters to write (or imagine) above the starred clues' answers
- FALLINGSTAR
- Meteor, and a hint to the word that descends in the starred clues' answers ... and this puzzle's grid
- DOWNTOASCIENCE
- Implementable with expertise and expert ease ... or how the starred clues' answers can be taken?
- DOVETAILS
- Fits together nicely . . . or a description of the last words of the starred clues' answers, when read in order?