| RAND | Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama |
| ELEMENT | It can heat up when we are enjoying our work (7) |
| DRIVINGAGE | For a full license, it's 17 or 18 in most states |
| OVID | Poet, famous for his 15-volume Metamorphoses, d. AD 17 or 18 (4) |
| EDGARALLANPARR | Author who's a distant relative of Henry VIII's last wife? |
| SOCCERMAUGHAM | "Rain" author who's a Beckham fan? |
| POE | 19th-century author who's a main character in 2022's The Pale Blue Eye |
| ELVIS | Star who a sang a Christmas classic and a hit about his suede shoes (both of which were blue) |
| IRS | Downfall of a lot of US mobsters |
| VALUES | Thinks a lot of us having minced veal (6) |
| ACCENTUATE | Stress a lot of US cash is involved in move |
| BUCKETLOAD | A lot of US money resting on film juvenile collecting Oscar |
| EXODUS | A lot of us are leaving - it's in the Bible (6) |
| UMPTEEN | Points as you put me in - there's a lot of us, you know! (7) |
| NEWSFLASHBUDDY | According to a viral Trill Withers tweet, it's white people's equivalent of "you got me [bleep]ed up" |
| ALTEREDSTATES | 14, 16 and 17; or 3 and 25; or 1, 13 and 22 (7,6) |
| HAPPYFAMILIES | Traditional gathering of 19 and 45/17 - or Ma, Pa, little Philip and baby Fiona? Yes! (5,8) |
| DUPES | When Ed's up, how he deceives us! (5) |
| OURSELVES | Oh, you are, I hear, a different vessel from the lot of us (9) |
| ENOBARBUS | In Antony and Cleopatra, after a humiliating defeat in battle and feeling he failed Anthony as a good soldier, he takes his own life. Who is this? |
