| SIDNEYLUMET | Director noted for t he 1982 film 'The Verdict' dines mutely for a change (6,5) |
| LUMET | Sidney, director of the 1982 film The Verdict (5) |
| HAMNETT | Katharine, fashion designer noted for T-shirts with provocative slogans (7) |
| RAMPLING | Charlotte, actress who starred in 1983 film The Verdict (8) |
| STEPPARENTS | Mike and Carol Brady, on "T he Brady Bunch" |
| IGOTNOTHING | 'This Math question could decide it: What is the value of e^(pi x i) + 1?'...BZZZT... 'Noramus for t |
| TELEGRAMSAM | A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex |
| PROSECUTORS | They hope to get the verdict or pure cost, maybe (11) |
| ARCED | How the used car battery flew through the air into t he ocean (meme) |
| ICEMAN | Nickname of t he character played by Val Kilmer in the film 'Top Gun' (1986) (6) |
| DAWN | [T]he child of morning, rosy-fingered ___' (Homer The Odyssey bk. 2,1.1) (4) |
| IOTA | Per Oliver Wendell Holmes, "[T]he price we pay for civilization." |
| UNMERITEDLT | Diner mutely treated in a fashion that's not deserved? (11) |
| NEIGHBORHOOD | "-T-he _"; Cedric the Entertainer's series |
| AKELA | '[T]he great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning' in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories (5) |
| RUE | Poe's "T he Murders in the - Morgue" |
| MORE | "T he - the merrier" |
| BRACEBRIDGEHALL | 1822 novel by US author Washington Irving set in '[t]he ancientest house' (11,4) |
| MAB | '[T]he fairies' midwife' according to Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (3) |
| MAMMON | M-m-member for T-t-t-tatton, personification of greed (6) |
