| JEANPAULSARTRE | French existentialist who said that hell is other people |
| INFER | Conclude that hell is a no-no? (5) |
| SARTRE | Existentialist who declined a Nobel Prize |
| NOEXIT | Sartre play that proclaims, "Hell is other people" |
| HELL | "___ is other people" (Sartre line that's relatable to anyone who has worked a service job) |
| ISAACSTERN | Ukraine-born US violinist who said that he played "music that solves all human problems: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven" |
| OTTESSAMOSHFEGH | "Eileen" author who said that people "shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered" |
| BOB | Florida attorney general Butterworth, who said that all overseas ballots should count |
| KIM | South Korean president, who said that Korean unity could be decades away |
| IDID | Terse response to 'Who said that?' |
| SUVLA | "That hell that they called ___ Bay" features in the lyrics of And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. (5) |
| ADA | A forename of Lord Byron's daughter Countess of Lovelace, who said that the analytical engine "weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" (3) |
| ENYA | Irish singer who said that she "prefers going into churches when they're empty" |
| SITTENFELD | Curtis who said that her novel "Romantic Comedy" was inspired by " 'Saturday Night Live,' my love of celebrity gossip, and my love of love" (April, 2023) |
| CAPOTE | Writer who said that Beat literature "isn't writing at all-it's typing" |
| DEBEAUVOIR | Simone ___, French existentialist philosopher who authored 1949 work The Second Sex (2,8) |
| RODSTEWART | 79-year-old rock icon who announced this week that he'll be extending his 13-year Las Vegas residency through 2025 |
| DEBTOR | How to rob Ted so that he'll still owe you something |
| SHAW | Who said "Hell is full of musical amateurs" |
| HYDRANT | Its issue is other than dry (7) |
