| WAYNEGRETZKY | He wanted to wear Howe's #9 for the Soo Greyhounds, but settled for a two-digit version (5,7) |
| ONT | Where "The Soo" is, briefly |
| NEWCASTLE | -....... United, Premier League club whose manager is Eddie Howe (9) |
| AGREED | Settled for a good source of venison on the way back (6) |
| DECATHLETES | Versatile sportspeople, each settled for a change (11) |
| LAPDOGS | Not racing greyhounds, but little pets (7) |
| CHITTYCHITTY | 1968 family film starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (6,6,4,4) |
| GLOVEPUPPETS | Marionettes of a certain type, such as Sooty, Sweep and Soo (5,7) |
| DANIELDAEKIM | He played Jin-Soo Kwon on "Lost" |
| PAPERBACKWRITER | In his just published book, "The Lyrics," Paul McCartney offers details about 154 of his songs; early on he wanted to be a novelist, and for this hit imagined penning "a letter to the publishing compa |
| ENT | "The Lord of the Rings" species that anagrams to a two-digit number |
| CATFISH | Why did Silly Sam buy his kitten a rod and reel? Because he wanted to see a ___ |
| REMY | He wanted to enter Lyrik into a Battle of the Bands contest in Home and Away (4) |
| CARTER | He wanted to enter Lyrik into a Battle of the Bands contest in Home and Away (6) |
| OFTEN | Regularly amounting to a two-digit figure (5) |
| PEACESIGN | It may look like 5, but it's a 2-digit figure (5,4) |
| RBI | One of Addison Russell's nine for the Cubs in the 2016 World Series |
| ITWASTHESAMEOLDGRIND | He wanted to run a coffee shop but ___ |
| AMEREDISCOUNT | "Some studio exec wasn't happy with ___--he wanted to get in for free." |
| EGGPLANT | Why did the foolish farmer spread fertilizer outside his chicken coop? Because he wanted to grow an ___ |
