| PRYOR | Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" |
| GROUCHO | Who once quipped "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception" |
| STUN | Mad to turn up and be a knockout (4) |
| REVUE | A show one will be a critic of, one is told (5) |
| TODRINK | WC Fields quipped, "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me ... That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for" (2,5) |
| GROUPED | Two women refused to grow up and wed as ordered (7) |
| LEAVETHENEST | Grow up and move away from home |
| AGEGROUP | Uninitiated page will grow up and leave the west with his peers |
| WILLROGERS | Entertainer who said "I never met a man I didn't like." |
| MAN | "I never met a ___ I didn't like" |
| LASAGNA | "I never met a ___ I didn't like": Garfield |
| RIVERS | Joan who quipped "A Peeping Tom looked in my window and pulled down the shade" |
| AMANI | "I never met ___ I didn't like": Rogers |
| AMAN | "I never met ___ I didn't like": 2 wds. |
| EYECATCHER | I heard a common pet's expensive in Paris for anybody who's striking |
| ALGORE | Politician who quipped, 'You win some, you lose some, and then there's that little-known third categ |
| LENO | Jay who quipped "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" |
| PAAR | Jack who quipped "A funny thing happened to my mother one day: Me" |
| EMO | Philips who quipped "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing" |
| OSCARWILDE | Writer who quipped "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" |
