| ACTTHREE | When 'To be, or not to be' is spoken |
| ACTIII | When "To be, or not to be" is heard |
| ESSE | "__ est percipi": to be is to be perceived |
| TACT | It's said to be "the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle" |
| REGULARVERB | "To be" is not one |
| ARISE | One part of "to be" is another to come up |
| INTHERIGHTPLACE | Where we all want to be is where every character here must be. (2,3,5,5) |
| TETH | Ninth letter of Semitic alphabets such as Phoenician and Aramaic, from which the Greek theta is thought to be is derived (4) |
| INDOORS | Safe place to be is round New Cross, heading north? (7) |
| PARADISE | The happiest place to be is in the passing show (8) |
| VERB | "To be" is an irregular one |
| IAMB | 'To be' is one, poetically |
| FORFEITING | Conceding why bride-to-be is with dressmaker reportedly? (10) |
| EXIST | To be is, in extent, ten fewer (5) |
| EGOIDEAL | What I'd like to be is oldie, wizened with age (3,5) |
| ECCENTRIC | Being fixated with what Europe used to be is odd (9) |
| CONSIDER | Think the right place to be is in credit |
| CHURCHYARD | Usually a grave place to be. Is it a measure of a higher plane? (10) |
| HARPERLEE | Author who said, "All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama" |
| HEARTACHE | "...by a sleep to say we end the ___ and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to..." - part of Shakespeare's/hamlet's To Be or Not to Be III:i |
