| TCHU | "Ac-Cent- --- -Ate the Positive" |
| DINED | After Enid turned up, Penny ate out (5) |
| ELIMINATE | You've got to ___ the negative, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the positive: 1944 song by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers (9) |
| ARLEN | "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" composer |
| ATE | Ella Fitzgerald "Ac-Cent-Tchu-___ the Positive" |
| MSG | Composition of the seasoning Ac'cent, for short |
| ACHIEVES | "The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and ___ the impossible": Winston Churchill (8) |
| FATE | The fellow ate the lot (4) |
| STIES | Wherein the pigs ate the pasties dad left? (5) |
| KUDZU | "The vine that ate the South" |
| COAT | Fur of the cat that ate the duck (4) |
| EMPHATIC | Stressed when the chimp ate the recipe! (8) |
| WINN | Godfrey -, author of the volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| AFFIRMATIVE | "You've got to accentuate the positive; Eliminate the negative; Latch on to the ...; Don't mess with |
| CREDIT | Time permitted for the payment of something sold on trust; a sum deposited into a bank account; or, the positive balance of the latter (6) |
| AYES | A positive vote from the positive voters? |
| ROOST | From rose, ate the middles for rest of the birds (5) |
| DOPIEST | The daftest of Snow White's friends, Dot, ate the pies (7) |
| REGRET | Feeling that might accompany the words "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" |
| CHEWEDRUB | Angelic figure / Ate the spice mix before preparing the meat? |
