- ANAGRAMS
- Word game
- Goes from prenatal to parental, e.g.
- Scrambled letter games
- Makes hikers shriek, e.g.
- Word-forming game
- Wordplays
- Ones for the answers to 1-, 25-, 37- and 50-Across are hidden in their clues
- Letter-rearranging game
- Lionel and O'Neill
- Lettter rearrangements
- Theme of the puzzle
- Vicar's themes and "Christmas Eve"
- Won and own, for now
- Goes from angered to enraged?
- Logogriphs.
- Popular game.
- Pre-Scrabble game.
- Puns' partners.
- Game
- Word games
- This puzzle's theme
- What doe and ode are to 24 Across
- See 29 Across
- Popular word game
- 23 & 41 Across; 78 & 100 Across; 58 Across and its clue
- Angered and enraged, e.g.
- Slot machines and "cash lost in 'em," e.g.
- *Flashback and halfbacks
- Letterman's favorite activity?
- Quip, part 4
- See circled letters
- What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle
- Goes from Tokyo to Kyoto, say
- Eleven plus two and twelve plus one, e.g.
- Start of spring and "frost's parting," e.g.
- Makes treats from taters?
- Rico Nasty and Satyricon, for example
- Goes from vote to veto?
- Clay and Lacy, to one another?
- Silent and "listen," for example
- Clue to how "rate mortgage" is adjustable herein
- Lemon and melon, e.g.
- The long entries in this puzzle, vis- -vis "securities"
- A hint for the "life insurance" options in this puzzle