| INOUR | "The fault, dear Brutus, is not ___ stars" |
| CASSIUS | Character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) whose lines include 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves' (7) |
| ISNOT | "The fault, dear Brutus, ___ in our stars" |
| CAESAR | "Brutus is just as smart as ___, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like ___, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that's not what Rome is about! |
| TREBONIUS | Follower of Brutus is no brute, anyhow |
| JMBARRIE | "Dear Brutus" playwright |
| NAM | "Smokey, this is not ___. This is bowling. There are rules" ("The Big Lebowski" quote) |
| SECULAR | "If India is not ____, then India is not India at all" (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) |
| AMESS | If it is not ______, it is not progress, per Robin Sharma (2 wds) |
| EXPLOITABLE | "Reporting the news is a privilege and a responsibility, and it is not ____" (Meet Joe Black) |
| YET | "... but the end is not ___": Matt. 24:6 |
| LUCKY | "He who is not ___, let him not go a-fishing" |
| INUS | ". . . and the truth is not ___" (1 John 1:8) |
| ATOY | "The washing machine is not ___" |
| ENOUGH | James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, The World Is Not ___ (6) |
| ART | "A work of ___ that did not begin in emotion is not ___": Cezanne |
| OPENON | "The store is not ___ Sundays" |
| KNOWLEDGE | "The true sign of intelligence is not ___ but imagination": Albert Einstein (9) |
| LINEN | "It is not ____ you're wearing out, / But human creatures' lives" (Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt) |
| IWHO | "It is not ___ am crazy ... it is ___ am mad!" ("Ren and Stimpy" quote) |