- BREAK
- Head-clearing span, perhaps
- Respite from work
- Do better than, as a score
- Interruption
- Need fixing
- Go to pieces?
- Word that can follow the last word of 17- and 54-Across and 11- and 27-Down
- Intermission
- Bit of luck
- Nine ball beginning
- Time away from work
- Word missing from 17, 23, 44, 56 Across
- Recess
- Escape, with "out"
- Come apart
- Work stoppage?
- The "five" in "take five," e.g.
- Time-out
- Stroke of luck
- Tame
- Coffee time
- Take five
- Start a game of pool
- Time for coffee
- Time-out for coffee
- Fracture
- Short recess
- Start a rack
- It can precede the words at either end of 20-, 39-, and 58-Across
- Pool opening
- Eightball starter
- Dawn.
- Social blunder: Slang.
- Chance piece of luck: Slang.
- Hiatus.
- What curve balls do.
- Disclose, as news.
- TV interval.
- Crack.
- Coffee ___
- What to do with the news
- Reveal, as news
- Jazz solo cadenza
- Period between sessions
- Shatter
- Huddle ender
- With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the shaded squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues
- Spring ___
- Go all to pieces
- Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across
- With 57-Down, part of a morning routine
- -
- Opening shot in billiards
- Start of a billiards game
- Respite
- Snap, crack or pop, maybe
- School vacation
- Take ten
- Opening action on a 58-Across
- Fold under pressure
- Type of dancing
- Shout from those huddled together
- Start a billiards match
- Stop for an intermission
- Require fixing
- Start a billiards game
- Rest period
- Stop working
- Disperse from a huddle
- Start a snooker game
- Take five, say
- Scattershot in a game room?
- Short vacation
- It's bad to the bone
- Intermission, for example
