| AGE | "I never work. Work does ___ you so.": Quentin Crisp |
| TOLD | I ___ you so! (Didn't I warn you?) |
| UTOPIA | More work - work I put into out-tray regularly |
| PRIESTLY | Work includes arrangement of rites? Such work does (8) |
| DUG | "I ___ you so much, I took some for the team" (song lyric from 2009) |
| OPPOSITE | Facing plot after work, work over (8) |
| PROPEL | Push advertising work, work by the Spanish (6) |
| GOESTOPOT | Famous advice to young man wanting work - "Work with books" - fails |
| EXPANDS | What work does, according to Parkinson, so as to fill the time available for its completion |
| DAMAGES | What the beaver's work does over time |
| INHOOP | Ring of Shakespeare's popular work does it for house |
| WRITERSCRAMP | An author's weakness - what might be said about Quentin Crisp hugging queen? |
| BREADWINNER | After the day's work, does he have a loaf? (11) |
| CIVILSERVANT | The Naked --- ---, the 1968 autobiography of Quentin Crisp (5,7) |
| MOONLIGHTSONATA | Great work - does two jobs, on a tape half-cut (9,6) |
| THENAKED | ____ Civil Servant, autobiography by English humorist Quentin Crisp later adapted for film (3,5) |
| NEVERKEEPUPWITH | Start of a quip by Quentin Crisp: 4 wds. |
| UNPLEASANT | "Euphemisms are ___ truths wearing diplomatic cologne': Quentin Crisp (10) |
| IGNORE | "First they ___ you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win": Mahatma Gandhi (6) |
| TREAT | Bob Dylan "I didn't mean to ___ you so bad" |
