Answer: ASIDE
ASIDE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 249 times.
Referring Clues:
- Song much played on the radio
 - Parenthetical comment
 - Digression
 - "All kidding ___..."
 - In reserve
 - Words to an audience
 - "Penny Lane," not "Strawberry Fields Forever"
 - Stage remark
 - Offhand remark
 - Much-played part of a 45
 - Words to no one in particular
 - Stage comment
 - Top of a platter
 - "Stand ___!"
 - Private lines, perhaps
 - Casual comment
 - "Love Me Do" vis-à-vis "P.S. I Love You"
 - LP half
 - Private line
 - In escrow
 - Comment to the audience
 - It might be in parentheses
 - Discourse detour
 - Parenthetical bit
 - Set ___ (save)
 - Off from the center
 - Half of a 45
 - Where a needle is usually put?
 - Comment off the main point
 - Presley's "Don't," e.g., not "I Beg of You"
 - Out of the way
 - Line to the audience
 - It's not on the main 83-Across
 - "Oh, by the way" comment
 - Parenthetical passage
 - Actor's whisper
 - Stage digression
 - Private lines
 - Stage mutter
 - To the left or right
 - Bracketed material
 - Off the direct path
 - Off the direct course
 - It might start "By the way ..."
 - Step __ (resign)
 - Cast __ (discard)
 - Parenthetical remark
 - Remark directed to the audience
 - Theater whisper
 - Away
 - Stage whisper
 - Off the record
 - "All kidding ___ ..."
 - Notwithstanding
 - Covert comment
 - Muttered utterance
 - "All joking ___ ..."
 - Dramatic digression
 - Tangential observation
 - Word after step or stand
 - Stage line intended for only the audience to hear
 - Remark to the audience
 - "All kidding __ ..."
 - Play byplay
 - "Don't Be Cruel" vis-à-vis "Hound Dog"
 - Bracketed word in a script
 - It breaks the fourth wall
 - Hamlet's first line, e.g.
 - Conversation tangent
 - Excluding, with "from"
 - It's supposedly not heard by other people on the stage
 - Shylock's first one begins "How like a fawning publican he looks!"
 - Out of one's mind?
 - Where all kidding occurs?
 - Lateral remark
 - Actor-to-audience comment
 - Line spoken to the audience
 - Other characters don't hear it
 - Stage musing
 - In a separate place
 - Place for all kidding?
 - Comment meant only for the audience
 - All kidding __
 - Comment to an audience
 - Dramatic device
 - ''All kidding __ . . .''
 - Words to the audience
 - Digression of a sort
 - Stage whisper, perhaps
 - Theatrical whisper
 - Actor's remark to the audience
 - Coward's ''To Step ___''
 - Actor's line to the audience
 - ''All kidding ___ ...''
 - Remark to an audience
 - In reserve, as money
 - Thespian's whisper
 - Utterance to the audience
 - Departure from the main message
 - Word with "step" or "set"
 - Word following "push" or "cast"
 - Writer's digression
 - Speaker's digression
 - Parenthetical script comment
 - Stage whisper, e.g.
 - Dialogue that breaks the fourth wall
 - Remarks to an audience
 - "All kidding ___ . . ."
 - Private remark
 - "All kidding ___"
 - Indirect remark
 - Onstage digression
 - Most-played part of a 45
 - Playwright's device
 - Like all kidding?
 - Tangential comment
 - Obiter dictum
 - Coward's "To Step ___"
 - Stage muttering
 - Private line?
 - All kidding ___
 - A kind of remark
 - Actor's line
 - Out of the mainstream
 - Words intended only for the audience
 - Shakespearean stage device
 - Shakespearean stage device
 - Onstage thought balloon
 - Remark between actor and audience
 - Stage device
 - Digressive remark
 - Laterally
 - Actor's comment
 - Theater comment
 - Away from others
 - Remark to the crowd
 - Comment to the house
 - Remark to the house
 - Tangential remark
 - Line just for the audience
 - It's not heard by other characters
 - Confidential comment
 - Short digression
 - In private
 - Comment in parentheses
 - "Hey Jude" vis-à-vis "Revolution," e.g.
 - Thinking out loud, in a way
 - Whisper on stage
 - Where to put "all kidding"
 - Words never "heard" on stage
 - "Unheard" remark, on stage
 - One way to stand
 - Spoken thought, onstage
 - "Step ___" ("Make way")
 - "Step ___!": "Out of my way!"
 - Away from the center
 - Some turn this way
 - One place to step
 - Actor's lines meant for the audience
 - Actors' remark
 - Line for the audience
 - Brief digression
 - Elvis's "What'd I Say" vis-à-vis "Viva Las Vegas"
 - Off-mike comment
 - Put ___ (shelve)
 - Comment starting "By the way ..."
 - Comment that might start with 96-Across
 - Apart
 - Theatrical device
 - Place for old hits
 - A way to turn
 - "Step ___!"
 - It may be dramatic
 - Fourth-wall breaker
 - Parenthetical words
 - Step ___
 - Indicator of a private thought
 - Out of one's thoughts
 - Whispered words
 - Whispered word
 - In reverse
 - Words for the audience
 - Apart (from)
 - Off-topic remark
 - Main song, on old 45s
 - See 34-Across
 - Whisper for the audience
 - Better half?
 - Onstage thought bubble
 - Lines for an audience
 - Where to find a 45's hit
 - Whispered line
 - Thespian's whisper on stage
 - Way to step
 - Something bracketed
 - Tangent line?
 - Where to put all kidding?
 - Set ___ (nullify)
 - Where something can be set for later
 - "All kidding ___ ... "
 - Stage play device
 - Spoken thought, on stage
 - Most played part of a 45
 - Kept for safekeeping
 - Where one may be taken for a private word
 - 45's moneymaker
 - Where all kidding goes?
 - Undertone
 - Stored (with "set")
 - Independently
 - Actor's whispered comment
 - Remark to the playgoers
 - Set ___ (annul)
 - Hamlet's "A little more than kin, and less than kind," e.g.
 - Whispered comment
 - Whispered stage line
 - Off-mic comment
 - Word after "cast" or "step"
 - Word after "brush" or "pull"
 - Stage remark akin to thinking aloud
 - Actor-to-audience remark
 - Line heard by the audience but not by other characters
 - Step ___ (bow out)
 - Comment not meant for everyone
 - Where one may be taken to be reprimanded
 - Playwright's vehicle
 - Set ___ (save for later)
 - Lines not meant for everyone
 - "Step ___!": "Outta my way!"
 - Many a confession on a theater stage
 - As an ___ (parenthetically)
 - Comment from a stage actor directly to the audience
 - Line to the house
 - "All jokes ___ ..."
 - Performer's comment to the audience
 - Fourth-wall-breaking comment
 - Brief comment to an audience
 - Lines that break the fourth wall
 - Line at a theater, maybe
 - "All kidding ___ …"
 - Actor's comment to the audience
 - Comment that breaks the fourth wall
 - Digression of sorts
 - Step ___ (move out of the way)
 - Way to be brushed or pulled
 - Actor's comment that breaks the fourth wall
 - One might start "Incidentally …"
 - Onstage comment to the audience
 - Tangent
 
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