Crossword clues for Here's the answer at last! 3 letters:
- END
- With 1-Across, a football play, or an apt description of what's hidden in the last part of the answer to each starred clue
- MAG
- Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one)
- TED
- With 45-Across, popular lecture series ... or a hint to three letters plus the last word of each starred answer?
- DDS
- Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers
- ICE
- Zamboni-prepared surface, and word that can follow the last word of the puzzle's four longest answers
- END
- With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers
- ESS
- Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid)
- CURTAIN
- Agatha Christie novel subtitled "Poirot's Last Case," or what can follow the starred answers' last words
- SKYDIVE
- Go into free fall (Note this answer's last 4 letters + 1 letter above the block to the right + ...)
- BLACKARTS
- Movement that empowered African American creators (Hint: Unscramble this answer's last word and think "Toronto")
- THEXFACTOR
- Hard-to-define element, or a hint to what can precede each last word in answers to starred clues
- EARLYSPRING
- Late March, say (theme hint: in this answer, switch the last word's second letter with the one below it)
- FREEWIFI
- Coffee shop amenity (Note the last words of 18-, 26- and 44-Across. Then note the last two letters of this answer + ...)
- TALKINGSHOP
- Discussing the job with colleagues, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues seem to be doing
- AHEAD
- In the future, or, when spoken with a long starting vowel, what the last word of the answers to starred clues can have
- GETOUTOFHERE
- Shoo!, and an instruction that goes with the last words of the answers to the starred clues
