Answer: ASIDE
ASIDE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 249 times.
    - 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