| CHOOSIER | "I ought to be a bit ____, but I just like working" (Charles Dance in a 2023 interview) |
| BARRY | Show in which Bill Hader got to say, "I just like broth" |
| YOUTALK | "I never ever said it was clever, I just like getting leathrered," Babyshambles (3-4) |
| CENTURY | 1993 film drama starring Charles Dance and Clive Owen (7) |
| NONE | Mini-series with Charles Dance, And Then There Were ---- (4) |
| REDDITCH | Worcestershire town that is the birthplace of actor Charles Dance (8) |
| PRYOR | Comic who said "I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells" |
| IMPOSE | I'm of the attitude that I ought to set it as a task |
| PUN | "I'd like to study philosophy, but I just Kant," e.g. |
| ITCH | Feel a bit_, in a way |
| DISINTERESTED | Ted and Sid are seen in trees but I just don't care! (13) |
| GOWITHOUT | Playing, I ought to win from the start, but give up (2,7) |
| TOUGHITOUT | Tout and I ought to circulate to endure stoically (5,2,3) |
| AUDIO | Fraud I ought to have in sound (5) |
| SNOWWHITE | "I used to be ___ ___, but I drifted": Mae West (4,5) |
| IOWA | "It is true that I was born in ___, but I can't speak for my twin sister" (Abigail Van Buren) |
| STAND | "I will never under___ ... but I ___" (statement posted in June 2020 by the most annoying person you know) |
| DUTIABLE | Duel a bit ___ subject to Customs charges! (8) |
| TRAMP | Walk back a bit ___ about a mile (5) |
| SHOULD | Ought to be a good rhyme (6) |
