Crossword puzzle clue "answers in a way"

How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are

Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers

Battery found, in a way, in eight puzzle answers

One way to describe the theme answers?

One way to get some answers

Sweet, or, read another way, a hint to five long puzzle answers

Fashion runway, or, in a way, what this puzzle's 10 perimeter answers comprise

Bygone army fare, and a way to describe the starred answers