| SAGAL | "see, here is the thing about ___" (first part of a wire-tapped conversation between 24-across and 51-across, dubbed the "npr bugging scandal") |
| ITISNO | (and 16 across, 24 across and 5 down) 17th-century proverb suggesting that what's done is done (2,2,2) |
| PROPERTY | The Man of _, first part of The Forsyte Saga (8) |
| TELLING | "The greatest thing about ___ the truth is that nobody ever believes it": Dorothy L. Sayers (7) |
| MUDDED | Wire tapped |
| BARB | Sharp part of a wire fence |
| IDEST | That is the thing about some French |
| MYDEAR | Letter opener between 24 and 24 (2,4) |
| REMEMBERED | One who belongs in the grass between 24 and 23s (10) |
| MISS | Unpredictable choice between 24 and 20 down? (3-2-4) |
| HITOR | Unpredictable choice between 24 and 20 down? (3-2-4) |
| STEEPLE | The children's finger game went, "Here is the church and here is the ...; Open the doors and see all the people" |
| GAUGE | Diameter of a wire; number of knitted stitches in one inch of fabric; or, the width of a row of slates (5) |
| DEW | Days?" Most of us know that by doubling daily, the second choice is far more than $1 million - $10,737,418.23. So here is the new twist. What is the formula that will give us the correct answer for an |
| HOPE | "___ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all" (Emily Dickinson) |
| CLUBHOUSE | The bar here is the 19th hole of a golf course |
| AIRCREW | Capacitance and resistance of a wire wound all around, they work at high altitudes (7) |
| ITEMISE | Inventory is the thing hiding the beginning of the end (7) |
| ABODE | Phish "The car is the thing on the road that takes you back to your ___" |
| STRAW | Here is the cattle food back, warts and all (5) |
