| FRAIDSO | "Sorry, that's the way it is" |
| UPHILLCLIMB | "That's the Way It Is" bit by Celine Dion: "It's an ___ ___ and I'm feeling sorry..." |
| IMAFRAIDSO | 'Sorry, but that's the way it is' |
| YOUKNOWHOWITIS | "Sorry, that's the way I roll" |
| ITIS | "Sorry, that's the way __" |
| CRONKITE | Longtime newsman with the catchphrase "And that's the way it is" |
| SIGNOFFS | Cronkite's "And that's the way it is" and Ellerbee's "And so it goes," e.g. |
| DION | "That's the Way It Is" singer |
| WALTERCRONKITE | 'And that's the way it is' newscaster |
| SADBUTTRUE | "That's the way it is, unfortunately" |
| ISEE | "Oh, so that's the way it is" |
| AHA | So that's the way it is; a half-half outcome (3) |
| WORDING | No cover for overcrowding - it is all in the way it is expressed (7) |
| STET | Proofreader's mark meaning "Keep it the way it is" |
| NONOTES | "It's perfect the way it is" |
| ALASNO | "Sorry, that's the wrong answer" |
| WEREFRESHOUT | "Sorry, that's the last one" |
| LIEOFTHELAND | That's just the way it is in fiction created by the farmers presumably (3,2,3,4) |
| ADVENT | Non-u, the way it is vaunted when Christmas is coming (6) |
| SIC | Read it the way it is written in a musical (3) |
