| END | ...But in the ___ it doesn't even matter... (Linkin Park lyric) |
| NUMB | ... I've become so ___... (Linkin Park lyrics) |
| SOMEONE | "___ left the cake out in the rain ..." ("MacArthur Park" lyric) |
| DIF | 'What's the _?" ("Does it even matter?') |
| SWIFT | Taylor whose new film has already become the highest-grossing concert movie in history (over $100 million)...and it doesn't even come out until tomorrow |
| DISSATISFYING | Sort of assist in enlightening it doesn't even start to be pleasing! (13) |
| UNICORN | College - banal stuff, and it doesn't even exist (7) |
| ADVERTISEMENT | Notice I'd even matters out! (13) |
| LOWSAW | "Both the high and the ______ it the same way" |
| ATTACK | "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may _ it, ignorance may deride it. but in the end, there it is": Winston Churchill (6) |
| MEAT | "... the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The ____ it feeds on" (Othello) |
| UCLA | Berkeley was the radical campus of the 60s but in the 30s it was this Los Angeles university that was described as a hotbed of communism (1,1,1,1) |
| CORN | In the southern parts of Africa, maize is a very important crop, but in the U.S., we call it ___ |
| LEAST | In a way it's stale but in the lowest degree (5) |
| DARKSIDE | "Give yourself to the ___. It is the only way you can save your friends.": Darth Vader |
| LAST | "At the ___ it biteth like a serpent" (Pro 23:32) |
| POND | The ___ (It separates Canada and England, colloquially) |
| BLANKVERSE | Liberal in row veers wildly ___ it doesn't end with sound agreements (5,5) |
| IRRELEVANCE | I never clear up ___ it doesn't matter (11) |
| EGAL | "a m'est ___" ("It doesn't matter to me") |
