| French clerical title |
| King's title |
| 1929 Ethel Waters hit whose title is a question |
| Cereal fungus |
| Be a chatterbox |
| Basic breakfast cereal |
| Boxing biopic |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses |
| Opera-box wear |
| Abbr. in some office titles |
| Debater's entitlement |
| Nature's title |
| French priest's title |
| Cereal grain |
| Bubbly title |
| Rousseau title character |
| A pageant winner's title |
| First word of a Beatles' album title |
| Bach title? |
| Former boxer Laila |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Coptic clergyman's title |
| Michael Keaton title role, 1989 |
| Boxing great |
| Beyoncé song with a title that describes a saintly glow |
| Shakespearean title character in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| Alternate title of a 1980 animated feature focused on Okefenokee Swamp elections |
| Box office duds |
| Boxer who won 1980's Brawl in Montreal |
| Boxing stats |