| TOOLATE | "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____" (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) |
| SAFE | "Hold thou me up, and I shall be ___" (Ps 119:117) |
| LALA | Oh ___! (oh dear me!): Fr. |
| PETA | Org. with a white rabbit in its logo |
| ROSEBUD | The first word spoken in Citizen Kane. (7) |
| LET | First word spoken in Genesis |
| HOUSTON | What was the first word spoken from the Moon? (7) |
| IRADE | Dear! I have this decree from the Sultan of Turkey |
| ADORE | That's nothing, dear! I really worship you! |
| SILENTPARTNER | Investor with a limited role ... or the unpronounced letters in the first words of the starred clues' answers, collectively? |
| TRIPLEPLAY | Baseball rarity, and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44- Across |
| DYLAN | Hippy rabbit in the 1965-77 children's TV series The Magic Roundabout, known as Flappy in the French original (5) |
| ALICE | This storybook girl joined The White Rabbit and others at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Wonderland |
| BAIN | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46and 60- Across |
| HARVEY | Who is the six-foot invisible rabbit in the 1950 James Stewart film of the same name? (6) |
| THUMPER | Pink-nosed rabbit in the 1942 animated film Bambi, adapted from Friend Hare in the 1923 source novel by Felix Salten (7) |
| HYDE | "If he be Mr. ___ . . . I shall be Mr. Seek" (musing from Gabriel Utterson in a Robert Louis Stevenson book) |
| INFIVE | "I'll be there ___ ___ minutes!" (I shall arrive ... very soon!) |
| USSR | "Back in the _._._._." (The White Album song) |
| LEVON | Elton John "And he shall be __, and he shall be a good man" |
