| THEYD | John Mayer "I was a killer, was the best ___ ever seen" |
| OFTIMES | "It was the best ___..." |
| HATCHER | Actress who played Susan Mayer i n the TV series ' Desperate Housewives', Teri - (7) |
| TIME | "Best ___ Ever With Neil Patrick Harris" |
| 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" |
| OPTIMIST | In the musical South Pacific, "When the sky is a bright canary yellow; I forget every cloud I've ever seen; So they call me a cock-eyed ...; Immature and incurably green" |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| AGENTORANGE | A male mandarin was a killer in Vietnam |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| MEA | "When the sky is a bright canary yellow; I forget every cloud I've ever seen; So they call ... cock- |
| EVANS | Godfrey ____, "arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen" according to Wisden |
| ASSASSIN | The killer was following two donkeys in (8) |
| SWATTER | Bug-killer was ordered by head of the territory (7) |
| SLEW | Was a killer left to go in all directions bar north? (4) |
| BUDPOWELL | Miles Davis said he was "the best there was of all the bebop piano players" |
| OPENINGSENTENCE | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. |
| TOPBANANA | "But the fruit platter was the best of all. Choice grapes and a ___." |
| TIMES | "It was the best of ___, it was the worst of ___" |
| GODFREYEVANS | Kent and England player, described by Wisden as "arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen" (7,5) |
| SOURGRAPES | (So the NAPA guy leaves) "Sheesh... worst case of ___ I've ever seen!" |
