| PREMISSES | Two sentences of an argument |
| ARE | Verb in each of the first three sentences of the Gettysburg Address |
| DAMNATIONS | Sentences of eternal suffering |
| LIFETIME | The seven ages of man in two sentences (8) |
| RUNON | Kind of sentence that keeps going and going, it should have been made into two sentences |
| STOPGAP | Interim stretch between two sentences? |
| BIRDLIFE | Two sentences for flyers, collectively (4-4) |
| GRADUAL | Bit of an argument with backing of two, one by one? (7) |
| PYRAMIDSCHEME | Sort of financial scam for which Bernie Madoff got a prison sentence of 150 years in 2009 (7,6) |
| INSECT | Last word of the first sentence of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" |
| ETTU | Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character |
| CARPET | An informal term for a prison sentence of three months (6) |
| ATTAINDER | Formerly, the loss of one's property and civil rights following a sentence of death or outlawry for treason or felony (9) |
| PROSANDCONS | Both sides of an argument ... and what can literally precede the starts of 18-, 24-, 53- and 60-Acro |
| UPSHOT | The final arrow launched in an archery match, thus a figurative parting hostile remark; a conclusion of an argument; or, any final result (6) |
| ELENCHUS | In logic, the refutation of an argument by proving the opposite of its conclusion (8) |
| AGO | Word in the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address |
| EXECUTE | Carry out sentence of death (7) |
| LINE | Sentence of dialogue in a script |
| CALLMEISHMAEL | First sentence of the novel Moby-Dick |
