| SELFWILL | "Conscience is a stern monitor, but [...] has been superseded by [...] the right of ____" (John Henry Newman) (4-4) |
| TELEX | What international communication device has been superseded by fax and email? (5) |
| DISASTER | God is a stern receptacle for an act of God (8) |
| FALSTAFF | Sir John ___, character who appears in William Shakespeare plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henr |
| OTTER | Animal such as Tarka in the 1927 book by Henr y Williamson (5) |
| TUDOR | Henr y VIII's royal house (5) |
| LEGACY | Describing a long-established company or industry, which may have been superseded by online technology (6) |
| WAY | Right of ___ |
| UNBROKEN | Like a record that has not been superseded by another (8) |
| LAID | Bet core part of livelihood's to be superseded by ChatGPT, etc |
| YOGH | Middle English letter resembling a 3, largely superseded by the digraph gh in the 15th century (4) |
| PTOLEMAIC | The ____ system of planetary motion was superseded by the Copernican system (9) |
| ONEGATIVE | Below zero (Hint: The complete answer is an alternate title for this puzzle suggesting a letter that can fit in 10 squares, but has been dropped each time) |
| PILLOW | Proverbially, a good conscience is a soft ___ (6) |
| METAPHOR | Franklin's "A good conscience is a continual Christmas," e.g. |
| WHIG | Member of a political party eventually superseded by the Liberals |
| TREAD | "Don't ___ on me" (slogan whose Wikipedia page has sections for "Use by the right," "Use by the left," and "Use in a terrorist act") |
| STALLED | Ed's got tall but has been brought to a standstill (7) |
| SCIENCEFICTION | Managed it, if conscience is a genre (7,7) |
| CALORIE | Unit of heat, superseded by the joule in scientific contexts |
