| BATTLES | Things you must choose, it's said |
| TOPIC | Subject to choose, it's said (5) |
| TILL | To grow things you must put your money in it |
| ELECTION | What a country has to hold in order to choose its government (8) |
| RULEONE | "The first thing you must know ..." |
| AIM | Thing you must do for target practice |
| NECK | Thing you must be brave to stick out |
| PRIMARY | Election in which each party chooses its own candidate |
| GOLDENCASKET | In 2.7, the first suitor must choose a casket. Portia has told him: "One of them contains my picture, prince. If you choose that, then I am yours withal." Which casket does he choose? |
| HASABOVINETOPICK | Must choose from among the available cows? [6] |
| MAJOR | Something a student must choose |
| HAVEABONDTOPICK | Must choose among less volatile investment options? |
| CHOCOLATEMOUSSE | Cleo must choose a whipped pudding (9, 6) |
| EITHEROR | Must-choose situation |
| LESSEREVIL | The less unpleasant of two unpleasant options one must choose between (6,4) |
| ETERNITY | Fantasy rom-com in which Elizabeth Olsen must choose whom to spend the afterlife with |
| WEE | "Pee-___'s Big Adventure" (1985 movie with the line: "There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you |
| BEFORE | Proverb suggesting you shouldn't assume you'll get the things you want until you have them (2,3,5,4,8,6,4,3,7) |
| CHICKENS | Proverb suggesting you shouldn't assume you'll get the things you want until you have them (2,3,5,4,8,6,4,3,7) |
| HATCHED | Proverb suggesting you shouldn't assume you'll get the things you want until you have them (2,3,5,4,8,6,4,3,7) |
