| A crossword editor has to be very careful when changing one--unlike this puzzle's editor, who was careless four times herein |
| Bone that Napoleon Dynamite's grandma broke after falling off her dune buggy |
| Skilled showoff |
| Punk-rock offshoot |
| First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f |
| 2005 Black Eyed Peas hit that Pitchfork called "so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of 'song.' |
| Four-time baseball All-Star Jose |
| Turkish officer |
| Coffee shop worker |
| Retired outfielder Barry, who was conspicuously denied entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 |
| Baseball's Fielder |
| Abbr. in some office titles |
| Home run, in baseball slang |
| Sail off-course |
| Break off a relationship |
| Baghdad-based Broadway musical |
| All, e.g., for this answer's last six letters? |
| Coffeehouse specialist |
| Am I off-base here? |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
| Sounds coming from a doctor's office |
| Roman army officer |
| Hideo, Major League Baseball's winningest Japanese pitcher |
| An official lang. of Kenya |
| Offend |
| Partially obscured (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers |
| Insurance-office mail |
| Trunk offshoot |