| ORPHEUS | Oh! How super that old poet was and in the Underworld too! |
| PURSES | How super! In the South they keep their money in them (6) |
| PURSE | How super! Somewhere to keep your money safe! (5) |
| INOVERTIME | How Super Bowl LVIII ended |
| BERLINBLUE | The tone of "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"? (6,4) |
| STAIR | "We passed upon the ___, we spoke in was and when" Bowie lyric |
| CRONKITE | His tag line was "And that's the way it is" |
| TALKINGHEADS | American new wave band whose hits include And She Was and Burning Down the House (7,5) |
| INTENSE | Highly focused on what is and was, and how they differ (7) |
| ODE | For which poet was in debt, it's said |
| EZRAPOUND | Which US poet was held in a psychiatric hospital from 1945 to 1958 for making proFascist broadcasts during WWII? (4,5) |
| POMEGRANATE | Because the wife of "king of the underworld" had eaten a single seed in the underworld, she had to remain there one-third of the year and spend the other two-thirds with her mother. From what fruit di |
| STOODFOR | "Everybody knew who I was, and nobody knew what I ____" (Colin Wilson, on the success of his first book, The Outsider) |
| MAIZE | I sat where the minotaur was and I have large ears (5) |
| SENECA | Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD). |
| WINE | Sarcastic communic-ation that was and is painful to get over (6,4) |
| BARBED | Sarcastic communic-ation that was and is painful to get over (6,4) |
| WIRE | Sarcastic communic-ation that was and is painful to get over (6,4) |
| ELENA | Kagan, whose senior thesis was "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933" |
| CHANG | Tennis player Michael who was (and remains) the youngest man to win a singles major |
