| MASHA | The Seagull character who says, "I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy." |
| INSIDERS | I dress in fashion according to those in the know (8) |
| SWITCHON | Boy embraces woman in black to get going (6,2) |
| IMBUE | I am unhappy without student to inspire (5) |
| REUNIFIES | Gets together again? Sure, fine I am unhappy (9) |
| NASTY | Tinashe hit that gave birth to the phrase "match my freak" |
| TINASHE | Her song "Nasty" asks, "Is somebody gonna match my freak?" |
| DANTE | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| MARGE | TV character who says "I forgot to clean the lint basket in the dryer. If someone broke into the house and did laundry, it could start a fire" |
| MARLEYSGHOST | Dickens character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" |
| MARLEYSG | Fictional character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" |
| ANI | Character who says "I will be the most powerful Jedi ever. I promise you, I will even learn to stop people from dying," for short |
| YERTLE | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| DIGRESS | I dress little Gary in order to depart from the main subject (7) |
| GOTHS | Many people who dress in black and wear black lipstick |
| CRABNEBULA | Spanning 10 light years and located in Taurus, the shattered remnant of a star that ended its life i |
| INFERNO | Source of the line "Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood ..." |
| AHAB | Fictional character who says "I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer" |
| RICHARDIII | Shakespeare character who says "I have set my life upon a cast" |
| JALFREDPRUFROCK | Fictional character who says "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" |
