| CRIME | It doesn't pay, according to a saying |
| MIND | A terrible thing to waste according to a saying |
| BORROWER | A debtor one shouldn't be, according to a saying taken from Polonius in Hamlet a library patron; or, one of the tiny people who pinch from the humans in tales by Mary Norton (8) |
| SEX | It sells, according to a saying |
| SOBER | Like a judge, according to a saying |
| LOSER | A weeper, according to a saying |
| RDS | According to a saying they all lead to Rome: Abbr. |
| SLAVELABOUR | It doesn't pay to divert a bus, overall |
| CHORUSLINE | Group where it doesn't pay to be a step ahead |
| REMIT | Pay according to merit, maybe? (5) |
| EXACT | Make people pay according to obsolete law? (5) |
| ART | It "should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable," according to a saying |
| GOODINTENTIONS | What the road to hell is paved with, according to a saying |
| FINDER | Keeper, according to a saying |
| DUMBQUESTION | There's no such thing as this, according to a saying |
| HONESTY | The best policy according to a saying |
| ERR | Be human, according to a saying |
| EARS | What the walls have, according to a saying |
| CHEATS | Who, according to a saying, never prosper? (6) |
| FREELUNCH | Nonexistent meal, according to a saying (Estonian) |
