| FAITACCOMPLI | Pacific almost ruined with no end of plastics, an occurrence one must accept |
| BLUETIT | Let It Be almost ruined with inclusion of classy little singer |
| CANE | Length of plastic, an everyday walking-stick (4) |
| EVERYINCH | Entirely electric, so popular - end of plastic cash (5,4) |
| UNSALARIED | Article in laundries ruined with no compensation |
| ASTORM | No party suggested one must accept an unpalatable solution (3,4,2,1,5) |
| ANYPORTIN | No party suggested one must accept an unpalatable solution (3,4,2,1,5) |
| ONONESOWNHEADBEIT | One must accept the consequences of one's own actions |
| ACROGEN | New car and one must accept end of Stirling Moss, say |
| EVENT | An occurrence associated with a single point in space-time, such as the high-energy example of a supernova; or, any one of the social occasions of the British season (5) |
| COOKIE | One must accept whatever happens, even if it is unfavorable, because that is how the ___ crumbles |
| INSTANCE | Word for urgency originally, now a particular case/example; an occasion; or, an occurrence of something (8) |
| NATTA | Karl Ziegler and Guilio _____ received the Nobel in 1963 for their work in chemistry and technology of high polymers, revolutionizing the making of plastics |
| UNFIT | Disqualified, one must accept fine (5) |
| GOESMAD | "When the world _ _ _ _ _ _ _, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree." -G.B. Shaw |
| ACETIC | ... acid is a colourless liquid widely used in the manufacture of plastics (6) |
| CDS | "Research Finds 73% of Plastics Found in US Landfills Are Blues Traveler ___" ("The Hard Times" headline) |
| PANDEMIC | An occurrence of a disease affecting people over a wide geographical area (8) |
| OMEN | An occurrence regarded as a sign of future happiness or disaster (4) |
| ASTROTURF | Field of plastics? |
