| You might draw them when answering questions |
| '60s film character wearing one black glove |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses |
| 2005 Black Eyed Peas hit that Pitchfork called "so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of 'song.' |
| Lacking purpose |
| Action needed to spot the four fliers in the theme answers |
| Black, blue or straw |
| Animal lacking pigment |
| Lacking self-confidence |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
| Black-and-white outfit |
| Black layer found in Morbier cheese |
| A WWI song urged us to keep them burning |
| Anathema, to Polonius |
| Partially obscured (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| Black-and-white pig |
| Lacking light |
| Adele won five of them in February |
| Blackjack, in Soho |
| Lack of interest |
| Blackbird |
| Fabergé jeweled them |
| About 57 degrees, mathematically |
| Alert to a black-and-white, briefly |
| Mathematician's ordinal |
| Miss Marple finds them |
| Lone Ranger's theme composer |
| Lacking determination |
| Black thrush, old-style |
| Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters |