| GREENER | The grass is always ___... saying (7) |
| SEPTIC | Erma Bombeck's 'The Grass Is Always Greener Over the ? Tank' |
| ERMA | "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" writer Bombeck |
| SEPTICTANK | The grass is always greener over this, for Erma Bombeck |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| HEYDAYS | Prosperous times when the grass is garnered, we hear (7) |
| FAIRWAY | Part of a golf course lying between a tee and a green, where the grass is kept short (7) |
| ENVIOUS | Feeling the grass is greener? No: I've US to sort out! (7) |
| PURER | 'The stream is always __ at its source': Pascal |
| DARKEST | "It's always ___ before the dawn" |
| METED | "Is [...] bad treatment ever given to a person? / No, it is always ____ out" (Flann O'Brien's Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché) |
| ONSIDE | A soccer player in his own half is always ____ |
| ALREADY | "Always ___" (bit of poststructuralist jargon) |
| LOVEYOU | I will always __; Dolly Parton's promise? (4,3) |
| DORIS | British-Zimbabwean novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007; The Grass Is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook (1962) etc. (5,7) |
| WHITECHRISTMAS | Holiday song that begins "The sun is shining, the grass is green" |
| ROUGH | In golf, the part of the course where the grass is untrimmed (5) |
| LEIS | Doris ---, British writer whose novels included The Grass Is Singing (7) |
| SEETHEOTHERSIDE | To envisage where the grass is greener is to behold heaven (3,3,5,4) |
| DOLLYPARTON | 9 to 5 actress/singer whose The Grass Is Blue won the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy in 2001: 2 wds. |
