| YOGIBERRA | Baseball catcher and manager who said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| FAME | "If you come to ___ not understanding who you are, it will define who you are": Oprah Winfrey |
| BRET | ___ Boone former baseball athlete who is the son of former baseball catcher and manager Bob Boone |
| BERRA | Yogi, U.S. baseball catcher and manager born in 1925 noted for his amusing malapropisms (5) |
| NED | Former baseball catcher and manager Yost |
| FORK | "When you arrive at a ___ in the road, take it": Yogi Berra (4) |
| CICERO | Murdered by Mark Antony's soldiers, the Roman orator and philosopher "Tully" who said "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" (6) |
| EITHERWAY | Wherever you go from a fork in the road, in any case (6,3) |
| YSHAPED | Unknown party leader fell in like a fork in the road (1-6) |
| FLATTIRE | What a fork in the road might lead to? |
| ALANKING | Comic who said "If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books" |
| YLIKE | Resembling a fork in the road |
| CHOICE | Thing made at a fork in the road |
| YSHAPE | Characteristic of a fork in the road |
| SAHL | Satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| HAVEL | President who said "If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president" |
| ELIOT | Poet who said "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" |
| ERMA | Bombeck who said, "If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it" |
| ERSE | Old name for the Goidelic language of Ireland - of course, if you come from Eire, you just call it I |
| ROLL | It's best if this follows a tuck, if you come off at high speed. (4) |