| NOBLER | "Whether 'tis ... in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" (Hamlet) (6) |
| TIS | "Whether ___ nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" |
| ARROWS | "To suffer the slings and ... of outrageous fortune" (Hamlet) (6) |
| SLINGSANDARROWS | Quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, ' Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the - of outrageous fortune' (6,3,6) |
| SLINGS | "to suffer the ... and arrows of outrageous fortune" (Hamlet) (6) |
| INWARD | Existing in the mind - to the centre (6) |
| PONDER | To weigh in the mind; to think over (6) |
| STRAIN | From pressure on a muscle or tension in the mind to ancestry, descent, family or kind, this is a word of many meanings, all dictionary-defined (6) |
| WHETHER | "___ 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer ..." (Hamlet) |
| CLAIRO | US singer-songwriter who in 2021 released Sling and guested on Lorde's singles (6) |
| ACHEBE | Author of Arrow of God, Chinua _ (6) |
| OCEANS | Lots of outrageous cons are heartless (6) |
| PAYFOR | Suffer the consequences of having no school ultimately to represent (3,3) |
| ASHARP | Ti, in a B major scale |
| CHINUA | "Arrow of God" author ___ Achebe |
| ATTRIBUTE | In art, a conventional symbol associated with a mythical figure or saint, such as the bow/arrows of Diana, the dove of Aphrodite, the lyre of Apollo or the peacock of Juno (9) |
| ENDURE | Get Dee to run or suffer the consequences |
| HOMESTEAD | Smote devils in the mind to find settlement (9) |
| BRITAIN | It is in the mind to name a country (7) |
| DETRIMENTALLY | Terribly tired in the mind, to ill effect (13) |
