| Start of a Mexican calendar |
| Advent calendar part |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
| Acct. entries |
| America's Cup entries |
| Savings-acc. entries |
| Give Schweppes Ginger ___ try!" (brilliant soda slogan I just made up) (this clue dedicated to the great Merl Reagle, the master of saving weak entries; RIP, Merl) |
| Acct. ledger entries |
| Artist who contributes to each of the starred entries, in a way |
| Calendar entries |
| Almanacs, calendars, etc. |
| Annoys, or a hint to the word hidden in the starred entries |
| Agenda entries |
| Start of the Caracas calendar |
| Appt. on an exec's calendar |
| Long-running TV science show that hints at the other long entries |
| Advice that the four long entries with circles failed to follow |
| Calendar listings |
| Index entries |
| Words of disbelief found in the four longest Across entries |
| Alan of Federal Reserve fame, or a hint to the hues that bookend the starred entries |
| Mo. when bookstores have a lot of calendars |
| Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing |
| Ab follower, on the Hebrew calendar |
| Almanac entries |
| Month of the Jewish calendar |
| Calendar rarity |
| Appointment-calendar page, perhaps |
| Calendar numbers |
| CXX years before the start of the Islamic calendar |