| Maximum number of party attendees, perhaps |
| Big Apple cop who's looking to bust Popeye? |
| Business bigwig |
| Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter |
| Alternative to tossed salad |
| Horse to be busted |
| Alternative energy options |
| Alternative to purchase |
| Alternative to man-to-man defense, in basketball |
| Aluminum foil alternatives? |
| Ambiguous headline about a California drug bust? |
| Co-creator of the Reitwagen, the first internal-combustion motorcycle |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Alternatives to RCs |
| About, in the antique business |
| Android alternative for smartphones |
| Alternative to air or highway |
| Party attender |
| Alternative to MasterCard and Visa, for short |
| Alternative to a Whopper |
| Alternatives to Pentiums |
| Alternatives to Nikes |
| Party snack |
| Alternatives to downloads |
| Alternative to a smiley face emoticon |
| Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters |
| Collaborator with Claude Debussy |
| Business arrangements |
| Abuses freedom of the press, perhaps |
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