| POGO | Old comics character who said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." |
| EEYORE | Illustrated character who said, "We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it" |
| BERRA | Catcher who said "We have deep depth" |
| ERIE | Where Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| LINUS | Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life" |
| CALVIN | Comics character who said "Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" |
| ISUS | "We have met the enemy, and he ___" (Pogo Possum) |
| ENEMY | 'We have met the ___ and he is us': Walt Kelly |
| HEIS | "We have met the enemy and ___ us" |
| ARE | "We have met the enemy, and they ___ ours": Oliver Hazard Perry |
| LAKEERIE | Where "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| OURS | 'We have met the enemy, and they are ___' |
| ARCHIEANDREWS | Comics character who is 65 years old this month (and whose friends are answers to asterisked clues) |
| NIN | Who said "We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection" |
| MALALAYOUSAFZAI | Education activist and Nobel laureate who said, "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back" |
| ROSS | Painter Bob who said "We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents" |
| HULK | Marvel Comics character who turns green when he's angry (4) |
| NUKE | Marvel Comics character who has the American flag tattooed on his face (4) |
| CATHY | Comics character who announced her pregnancy in the last strip |
| SIRJOHN | Comic character who appears in three of Shakespeare's plays and is mentioned in another (3,4,8) |
