| ANART | "Excellence is _ _ _ _ _ won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly |
| MERYL | Streep who said, "Women are better at acting than men. Why? Because we have to be" |
| LOSERS | Speculators do not act up for the vanquished ... (6) |
| BEHAVE | Two auxiliaries getting to act rightly (6) |
| UNDERPLAYED | Did not act up? (11) |
| HOY | Cyclist Chris _ _ _ won 7 medals for the U.K. (3) |
| BIRD | Larry _ _ _ _ won basketball gold as part of America's Dream Team in 1992 (4) |
| CHANCE | Britton _ _ _ _ _ _ won a gold medal in sailing in 1952 (6) |
| MORRIS | He started the Arts and Crafts movement, which rebelled against industrialization. He said, "We do not reject the machine, we welcome it. But we would desire to see it mastered." |
| UFO | It's in the air and we do not know what it is initially (1,1,1) |
| NOTA | "Age is _ _ _ _ particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." -Groucho Marx |
| ANAISNIN | Who wrote "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are" |
| NEED | We do not have to have it (4) |
| ASOLE | "We do not have _ _ _ _ _ purpose but instead a soul purpose... passions that inspire purposeful living." -D. Reble |
| HUMAN | "We explore because we are ____, and we want to know." - Stephen Hawking |
| NONEED | "Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is _ _ _ _ _ _ of defining it." -L.M. Montgomery |
| WEAPONS | We do not want to have ___ ___ on New Zealand soil: David Lange (7,7) |
| NUCLEAR | We do not want to have ___ ___ on New Zealand soil: David Lange (7,7) |
| DAYS | "We do not remember ___, we remember moments": Cesare Pavese |
| ABNORMALITIES | One is lacking in skills about opera? We do not want them anyway! (13) |