| QUOD | "Eris ___ sum" ("You will be what I am") |
| CREDITLIMIT | Maximum sum you may borrow (6,5) |
| NICKEL | For a small sum you can capture the Spanish gentleman (6) |
| SMS | Sums you abandoned to send mobile sentences (1,1,1) |
| RECONCILED | "I am at a stage in my life [...] where I am completely ____ to what I am as a writer" (John le Carré) |
| HEROES | Song with the lyrics, 'I, I will be king/And you, you will be queen' (6) |
| OLDER | What I will be tomorrow, you will be next week (5) |
| CLEVER | "I am so ___ that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying" (Oscar Wilde quote |
| MOP | Sloppy rhyme time: I can clean up a spill in a coffee shop. Can you guess what I am? I'm a ___ |
| GIMME | Ultimately failing, I am what I am, one's usually conceded |
| REEBOK | Company with the campaign I Am What I Am |
| OWNSIT | Says "I am what I am!" |
| GAYNOR | I Am What I Am singer, Gloria _ (6) |
| LACAGEAUXFOLLES | Stage musical featuring the song I Am What I Am |
| LACAGE | "I Am What I Am" musical, familiarly |
| WAS | "As you are now, so once ____ I, / As I am now, so you will be" (Common epitaph) |
| AGELIMIT | A stick, that's what I am after - how old can I be? (3,5) |
| ABUM | "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of _ _ _ _, which is what I am..." -On the Waterfront (1954) |
| ASININE | What I am when I have one over the eight? (7) |
| MADE | *"You ___ me what I am today" |
