Crossword clues for Clues 8 letters:
- EDGECASE
- Situation that occurs under extreme conditions, and a description of the answer to each starred clue
- CUTTHEBS
- Give it to me straight ... or, when reparsed, a hint to some chopping in the answers to the starred clues
- REDSHIFT
- Phenomenon observed in receding galaxies ... and in the answers to this puzzle's asterisked clues?
- LALALAND
- 2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn't!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues?
- FALLBACK
- Spring forward partner (a reminder for November 5th) ... and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can literally have
- WANNABET
- Care to wager? ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues
- LOVENOTE
- Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues
- THERAKES
- With 68 Across, 20th-century opera that ends in Bedlam ... or what the answers to the four starred clues depict
- ZOOTOPIA
- Disney movie with a setting called Little Rodentia / Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde movie / Disney city with the businesses Hoof Locker and OfficeFox (I can write more clues)
- DWELLSON
- Obsesses ov- no, wait, there must be a better clue, something more cutesy and meta, ah, shit, this is going to eat at me
- HOTSTUFF
- 1979 song for which Donna Summer won a Grammy, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in the answers to starred clues
- POSITIVE
- Word (suggested by the black shape in this grid's center) that can precede the answers to starred clues
- COMPOUND
- With 49-Across, bad break ... and what each answer to a starred clue creates vis-à-vis the answers that define it
