| ALASNO | "Sadly, it ain't true" |
| IDENTITY | One gets to say it ain't true about bird with personality (8) |
| ITISSO | Reply to "That ain't true!" (3 wds) |
| NOTSO | "Ain't true!" |
| IFEAR | "Sadly, it looks like..." |
| DETONATOR | Too ardent, sadly, it may set things off |
| TEAR | Sadly it may fall - hurry! |
| TORCH | Sadly, it may be carried |
| BABYSITTING | Graduate Times? Sadly, it isn't good work for au pair (4-7) |
| AIRSHIP | Around one hour in Paris? Sadly, it could fly by (7) |
| STEAMIRON | Something pressing? Sadly, it means nothing — about right |
| SIGH | Say sadly "It goes hard with soldiers retreating" (4) |
| BELLROPE | Lovely having river work - sadly, it will take a toll (4-4) |
| MIDDLEEAR | Frenchman did a reel - sadly, it affects his balance |
| TWEEDLEDEE | Who says "Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't" |
| LOGIC | "Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's _____" |
| OVER | "It aint over till it's ___" |
| MISSMAJOR | activist and stonewall participant who said, "if it ain't right, ****ing fix it, whatever it takes" |
| ARETHA | She sang a 1989 duet of "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" with Whitney |
| BROKE | If it ain't ..., don't fix it |
