| BETTERED | Was better than |
| OUTSHONE | Was better than the other polishes? (8) |
| STOPPED | What Terminator did was better than following saint |
| EZRA | "In music news, No. 1 on the college charts this summer was 'Better Than ___.' And at No. 2: '___.'" (Norm Macdonald joke) |
| GLORYDAYS | Time in the past that was better than now (5,4) |
| FIGISAAC | Chewy cookie ("We were at Cambridge together. He was better at physics than I was.") |
| SHAH | How Reza Pahlavi was better known |
| CURED | Bacon, thus treated, was better (5) |
| TWEED | Wished tire was better material. (5,5) |
| IRISH | Wished tire was better material. (5,5) |
| GAMBLED | School run avoiding centre was better |
| EPPIE | Lederer who was better known as Ann Landers |
| ELEANORWOOD | Which eccentric benefactor was better known as Diamond Lil? (7,4) |
| WATERS | McKinley Morganfield was better known as Muddy ___. (6) |
| ORWELL | 1984 writer Eric Blair was better known by his pen name, George ... |
| REDBOOK | Quotations From Chairman Mao Zedong was better known in the West as The Little ... (3,4) |
| MOTHERSHIPTON | Name by which the soothsayer Ursula Southeil was better known |
| GRANDMA | This renowned American folk artist, born Anna Mary Roberston, was better known as ... Moses |
| ROGERS | Leonard Franklin Slye was better know as the singing cowboy, Roy ... |
| THESAINT | Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar was better known as this (3,5) |
