| EARTHA | Kitt who said, "A man comes into my life and I have to compromise? You must think about that one again" |
| LEGALLIABILITY | One Aga, one telly flogged with bill creating debt (5,9) |
| HMMM | "I have to think about that one..." |
| BALANCE | To compromise, you may strike one weighing device (7) |
| ALIEN | A man comes back a stranger (5) |
| EDIFIER | McGuire, shoot, said a man who makes things plain (7) |
| ARSENAL | Weapons causing fires, said a man (7) |
| ULM | I must think about looking firstly for a place in Germany |
| LETMESEE | I must think about this |
| HARDLINER | Difficult ship for one reluctant to compromise? (9) |
| BATTLEOFWILLS | In which author 1 Across and the 24 Down fail to compromise? (6,2,5) |
| WOOLF | English writer who said: "A woman must have money and a room of one's own if she is to write fiction" (5) |
| YOKOONO | Japanese artist and peace activist, born 1933, who said: "Art is my life and my life is art" (4,3) |
| CRIMBO | Game in which a word is given to a fellow player and they must think of one which rhymes (6) |
| MANANDBOY | All my life - and that's a lot - is about a Bond production (3,3,3) |
| LEANNRIMES | US singer/songwriter and actress whose hit songs include How Do I Live, You Light Up My Life and Crazy (5,5) |
| HELTERSKELTER | 1968 Beatles song released as the B-side to 'Got to Get You into My Life' in the US (6,7) |
| AMEN | Meek Mill song that begins, "I just want to thank God for all the pretty women he let into my life" |
| MYBOO | Usher/Alicia Keys duet about "that one person that will always have your heart" |
| QUEER | "My little horse must think it ___ / To stop without a farmhouse near": Robert Frost |
