| ANEGG | '__ today is better than a hen tomorrow': Franklin |
| DOG | "A living ___ is better than a dead lion" (Ecc. 9:4) |
| ETA | "A living ___ is better than a dead lion" (Ecc. 9:4) |
| TOSSPOT | A drunk forward is better than a drunk back (7) |
| ONE | Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another ___." |
| SEUSS | Children's author with the line "Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." |
| FIST | "... a kiss with a ___ is better than none" |
| PANTO | Short word, from "imitator of all", for what was originally an ancient Roman actor in a dumbshow, but today is a theatrical entertainment performed at Christmas-time (5) |
| YULELOGIC | "If today is the 18th, then Christmas is next week"? |
| PRESENT | "Today is a gift. That's why it's called the ___" |
| AFAT | "A lean agreement is better than ___ lawsuit" (German proverb) |
| EXCELSIOR | A strange device is better than one with nothing right (9) |
| LOAF | Half a ___ is better than none |
| ABOVEPAR | A British opera revised to include verse is better than average (5,3) |
| NONE | "Half a loaf is better than ___" |
| ANGER | "He that is slow to ___ is better than the mighty": Proverbs |
| SOCKDRAWER | Where two pairs is better than three of a kind? |
| STERNWHEELERS | Riverboats such as the S.S. Klondike II which today is a National Historic Site of Canada in Whitehorse |
| DAVIDFIFE | Scottish-born Ontario farmer who with his wife Jane (nee Beckett) developed Red Fife Wheat, the dominant wheat grown in Canada from 1860 to 1910 ...which today is a Canadian heritage wheat popular wit |
| ANSELM | ___ of Canterbury (d1109), whose 'proof' of God's existence, still discussed today, is based on reason rather than experience (6) |
