| EBENEZER | Brewer who wrote "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable" |
| REFERENCEBOOK | Bound written work to be consulted on occasion, such as Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable (9,4) |
| BREWER | Ebenezer Cobham ___, compiler of an 1870 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (6) |
| BREWERS | Whose "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" is that? |
| BREW | Concoction of phrase and fable? (4) |
| CENTO | String of phrases and quotations |
| GAY | Brewer who won the 1967 Masters |
| PERONI | Francesco, Italian brewer who founded a beer company in 1846 in Lombardy (6) |
| TALES | Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Merry Men and Other __ and Fables" |
| OOP | "And I ___" (recent meme phrase, and this puzzle's theme) |
| SPLITTHEATOM | Nuclear fission phrase, and a hint to each set of circles |
| RUBADUB | Bath time phrase (and the start of a nursery rhyme) (7) |
| GUINNESS | Arthur _, Irish brewer who started brewing ales at his St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin in 1759 (8) |
| ETYMOLOGY | The origin and history of words, phrases and idioms (9) |
| LILIES | Short story and fables popular in the nursery (6) |
| REYNARD | What name for a fox is used in medieval tales and fables? (7) |
| XMARKSTHESPOT | Treasure-indicating phrase, and a hint to the first words of the starred answers |
| ANDSOFORTH | In The King And I, Yul Brynner famously remarked,'Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera' - he could equally have used the phrase 'And so on ...' (3,2,5) |
| EXODUS | Book that's the source of the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey" |
| COMEONDOWN | "The Price Is Right" signature phrase, and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
