| KHAKIELECTION | But offered this patriotic choice, we didn't uniformly vote Green |
| FEEBLE | Wishy-washy, but offered bolder ingredients occasionally |
| ASUM | "Our lives are ___ total of the choices we have made" (Wayne Dyer) |
| NUNNERY | Hermia was offered this or death; Ophelia chose death (7) |
| NEWDEAL | Roosevelt offered this fresh round of cards |
| COLLATERAL | Army officer was, afterwards, all disheartened to be offered this by way of security |
| BIRDSOFAFEATHER | A bar offered this liquid for people with similar traits (5,2,1,7) |
| PRESENT | Something offered, this time (7) |
| FDR | Who famously offered this speaking advice: "Be sincere, be brief, be seated," in brief |
| ADVICE | 'What we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't': Erica Jong |
| ETC | [There are more, but we didn't list them] (abbr.) |
| FREUD | Father of psychoanalysis who named all of our neuroses (and found others we didn't know we had!) |
| MESSMATE | With uniformly one uniformly shares the same courses (8) |
| KHAKI | Uniformly dusty look driver needs, we hear (5) |
| JAMESDEAN | Actor mentioned by Billy Joel in "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| STORMFRONT | Billy's album that spawned the #1 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| REAGAN | He's mentioned in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| EDSEL | Make mentioned in "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| THEFIRE | Billy Joel "We Didn't Start ___" |
| JOEL | "We Didn't Start the Fire" singer Billy |