| RESILIENCE | I-was-knockeddown-but-I-got-backup quality |
| AMINERROLE | "... but I got to stir it, so I can honestly say I played ___ in something!" |
| LETME | "Thanks, but I got this" |
| DEVILINDISGUISE | 1963 Elvis hit with the lyrics "You look like an angel ... but I got wise" |
| BRIANCLOUGH | Former football manager who claimed "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" |
| DUNWEAR | I was warned about my second husband, but I was head-over-heels and moved into his place near Bridgwater (7) |
| EDITOR | I had an end-of-the-street place in Rode, but I moved when I got a top job at a newspaper (6) |
| STARE | "Stop and __, I think I'm moving but I go nowhere" |
| IDLED | I had got ahead but I wasted my time (5) |
| IVE | "The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing; But I can weather the storm; What do I care how much i |
| BORNINCHAINS | Song from leonard cohen's 2014 'Popular Problems' album that goes "but I was taken out of egypt / I |
| MAYOR | XTC "I may be the ___ of Simpleton, but I know one thing, and that's I love you" |
| ALIBI | I accept bail but I was somewhere else at the time and this proves it (5) |
| IOWA | "It is true that I was born in ___, but I can't speak for my twin sister" (Abigail Van Buren) |
| NEWTO | Have no knowledge of - but I was aware also, I said ... (3,2) |
| COLBERT | Who said "I can't prove it, but I can say it" |
| MUCH | "Don't know ___, but I know I love you" |
| AGOOD | Joe Walsh "They say I'm crazy, but I have ___ time" |
| ALSATIAN | Sat I held fast by boy, but I might bite (8) |
| ANALYST | I have a breakdown, but I can deal with it (7) |
