| METAPHOR | Franklin's "A good conscience is a continual Christmas," e.g. |
| PILLOW | Proverbially, a good conscience is a soft ___ (6) |
| MORALFIBER | Good conscience |
| GOODCHARACTER | Good conscience |
| SCIENCEFICTION | Managed it, if conscience is a genre (7,7) |
| BUSYBODY | A pantopragmatic or quidnunc meddling in the affairs of others; or, invented by Benjamin Franklin, a type of three-way mirror arranged at a window to show the street below (8) |
| STILLA | Aretha Franklin "A Rose Is ___ Rose" |
| RATRACE | A continual round of hectic and futile activity as a feature of urban working life (3,4) |
| INFLUX | A continual stream of people |
| ENGAGEMENT | Battle, or prelude to a continual one? (10) |
| COUCHPOTATO | A continual watcher of TV, videos, etc (5,6) |
| ACRE | Piece of land that sounds like a continual sore point? |
| ENDLESS | Spelling out exhortation to save, perhaps on a continual basis? |
| CUEBALL | White striker playing a continual role in game (3,4) |
| ANERGIA | In psychiatry, a continual feeling of tiredness |
| CLAMOUR | A continual complaining outcry (7) |
| NONSTOP | Return pots north on a continual basis (7) |
| SEPTET | The swans a-swimming in "The 12 Days of Christmas," e.g. |
| DECLINES | "A Visit From St. Nicholas" or Christmas, e.g.? |
| ARETHA | Franklin, a noted 18? (6) |
