| NEWYEAR | "Be at war with your vices, peace with your neighbours and let every ___ ___ find you a better man": Benjamin Franklin (3,4) |
| LIPS | "While you are proclaiming peace with your ___, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart": St Francis of Assisi (4) |
| HEART | "Let every ___ prepare him room" |
| ISLAM | "The United States is not, and never will be, at war with ___": Obama |
| JDATE | Site to find you a find, catch you a catch |
| ANNUALLY | Nan arranged to find you a friend once a year (8) |
| ACHILLES | He was the son of Peleus and Thetis and chief hero of the Greeks in the Trojan War. In Troilus and Cressida (act 1, scene 2), Cressida says, "There among the Greeks ___, a better man than Troilus." |
| GUNGADIN | Shoot and wander about with popular figure who's a better man than I am (5,3) |
| ETHIOPIA | Country of NE Africa federated with, and for 30 years at war with, Eritrea from 1952 until 1993 (8) |
| DIN | "You're a better man than I am, Gunga ___!": Kipling |
| THANI | "You're a better man ___!" |
| GUNGA | In the film, ... Din was a better man than either Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr |
| PEN | 'To hold a ___ is to be at war': Voltaire |
| EYEWASH | It's a nonsense, but it may give you a better outlook (7) |
| LONGARM | You make one to give you a better reach (4,3) |
| NATO | Intl. alliance whose founding document cites a "desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments" |
| GAMBLER | He's a better man (7) |
| CLINTBLACK | "A Better Man" country singer |
| APEN | "To hold ___ is to be at war": Voltaire |
| SANMARINO | Europe's oldest state (officially it was at war with Sweden from 1648 until 1996) (3,6) |
