| AMISS | Astray, things have gone ... |
| AWRY | Slightly wrong, things have gone ... |
| GOLDENSECTION | Mathematical division to close ___ ending after things have gone wrong (6,7) |
| ERROR | A sure sign that things have gone wrong with scope parallax (5) |
| COFFEEGROUNDS | What's left when things have gone to pot? |
| MEASURE | Action taken to find just how far things have gone? (7) |
| SOFARSOBAD | "Up to this point, things have gone pretty terribly" |
| LITTLEACORNS | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| FROM | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| MIGHTY | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| GROW | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| OAKS | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| OFFTO | ___ ___ a good start (Things have begun well) |
| ANIMISM | Belief that many things have souls |
| ANIMIST | One who believes things have souls |
| SCRIPTASUNT | Things have been written |
| INERT | Finer things have that passive quality (5) |
| ERASURES | Indications that things have changed? |
| TRADITION | How things have always been done |
| PERFECTASUNT | Things have been completed – best of all? |