| IWONTASK | "Those answers aren't important to me" |
| NOEL | What 21-, 41- or 61-Across is ... and, phonetically, a curiously apt common feature of those answers |
| HEROSANDWICH | Deli lunch ... or, based on a word hidden in 20-, 34- and 41-Across, what each of those answers is? |
| INEEDIT | "That's really important to me" |
| ICARE | "That's important to me" |
| ROSS | "It's really important to me not to be known as ____ when I'm 60" (David Schwimmer) |
| ITSALLTHESAME | Mirror image is not important to me usually (2'1,3,3,4) |
| EIGHTY | Important to shun women ___ to live to this? (6) |
| PIVOT | Turn to someone important to get a rise |
| BIGSTICK | Important to adhere to the threat of power (3,5) |
| HISTORIC | Attract attention to writing covered by old member of philosophical school - it's important to the past masters (8) |
| TOO | The company is now ___ big to fail. (very important to the industry) |
| VITAL | It's very important to get time to fill the bottle (5) |
| SACROSANCT | It's too important to interfere with whales raised on beach briefly close to Connecticut (10) |
| TEETH | Central to committee thinking these are important to the consumers (5) |
| TAB | Blond 50s idol as an actor and singer (though he said of his role in Island Of Desire, "It was more important to look good almost nude than to be an actor"); ... Hunter |
| LASTBUTNOTLEAST | Finally, it's quite important to give a sprinkling of table salt to nuts |
| SSA | Agcy. important to retirees |
| EARNEST | It's Wilde-ly important to be this |
| MASTERKEY | It's decisively important to a solution |
