| SAMEAS | "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the _ _ _ _ _ _ to be right in doing it." -G.K. Chesterton |
| ASTO | "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same _ _ _ _ be right in doing it." -G.K. Chesterton |
| ONESI | "Look at all the ___ _ picked!" (Exclamation heard in an orchard) |
| DIGINTO | Use a spade on the thing in doing it (3,4) |
| EBENEZERLEPAGE | 'The Book of ___' (though he didn't write it; G.B. Edwards did) |
| GOODPEOPLE | "I don't see them on the TV shows, where did all the ___ ___ go?": 2005 song by Jack Johnson (4,6) |
| HAS | 'That ___ to be right!' |
| REPOT | A poet has the right to do a little gardening |
| CARTOFF | Informal sort of eatery reserves right to do a takeaway |
| BEAUTY | "The ___ of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together": Carl Sagan |
| ANOVEL | "This is not _ _ _ _ _ _ to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -Dorothy Parker |
| WRANGLE | To argue thus one may be able to contrive to be right in (7) |
| ARGON | Had to have a right go to get a new inert gas (5) |
| LOUISEGLUCK | Literature Nobelist who wrote "The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me" |
| ALIE | It is a sin to tell ___ ___ to be truthful? (1,3) |
| GOD | "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept ___'s final word on where your lips end." -Jerry Seinfeld |
| NEVERENDING | Not at all the final scene: it's eternal (5-6) |
| OBRIEN | LBC radio presenter who wrote the best-selling book How To Be Right: ... in a world gone wrong (5,6) |
| JAMES | LBC radio presenter who wrote the best-selling book How To Be Right: ... in a world gone wrong (5,6) |
| DARED | Had the courage to do a thing (5) |
