| ATAIL | "'It's not much of _ _ _ _ _, but I'm sort of attached to it,' said Eeyore. 'And I'm sort of attached to you,' said Pooh." -A.A. Milne |
| CULTURAL | Sort of attache of refinement (8) |
| EEYORE | Children's character who says "It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" |
| BRAG | "Not to ___, but I'm a pretty big deal" |
| HEARER | Associates of attache are ringing auditor (6) |
| STOPOVER | Spinner's first and best set of deliveries? It's not much of a break |
| UPIT | "It's easier to go down a hill than _ _ _ _ but the view is much better at the top." -Henry Ward Beecher |
| PUPATE | It's not much of a dog to have swallowed what only an insect can do (6) |
| SHANTY | It's not much of a place for Jack to sing about! (6) |
| YOYO | I'm sort of top, but going up and down (2-2) |
| NOTALOT | "You'll like it - ___ _ ___ - but you'll like it": catchphrase of magician Paul Daniels. (3,1,3) |
| TRIFLE | It's not much of a dessert |
| OPENSANDWICH | Competition at golf venue in Kent? It's not much of a course (4,8) |
| PATHETICFALLACY | Anthropomorphism? It's not much of a deception |
| TIDDLER | It's not much of a catch (7) |
| DIETRICH | "It makes no difference how she breaks your heart if she is there to mend it," said Ernest Hemingway of actress Marlene ... |
| UGLYASHELL | It describes the awful accommodation of the man downstairs, as it's not much to look at? (4,2,4) |
| RANOVER | On top of this, it didn't end when it said it would (3,4) |
| DONKEYS | Beasts of burden such as Pooh's gloomy friend Eeyore and the talking one who helped Shrek rescue Pri |
| FORTISSIMO | I'm sort of upset about one's instruction for player (10) |
