| ANTIRACIST | "How To Be an ___" (bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi) |
| FINE | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely ___, bestseller by Gail Honeyman soon to be a major film (4) |
| KENDI | Ibram X. ___, author of "How to Be an Antiracist" |
| ANGEL | "Do you want to be an ___, do you want to be a star?" (lyric from a 1973 song) |
| ATTEMPTAT | “Conversation is more often likely to be an ____ deliberate evasion [...]. We’re all cheats and liars, really” (James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity) |
| HEIRESS | "You don't have to be an ___ to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one": Paris Hilton (7) |
| OSCAR | "Oh, I'd love to be an ___ Mayer wiener..." |
| AMERICAN | Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an ___" |
| HEIRCONDITIONER | A royal nanny needs to be an ___ |
| IDEAL | "To be an ___ guest, stay at home" (E.W. Howe) |
| IBRAM | "The Black Campus Movement" author ___ X. Kendi |
| RACIST | "How to Be an Anti-___" (best-selling book of 2020) |
| IBRAMXKENDI | Boston University professor who wrote "How To Be an Antiracist" |
| HOTWATER | "Continental people have sex life; the English have ____ bottles" (George Mikes in How to be an Alien) |
| ENFANTTERRIBLE | "Mon dieu, Pierre! Le Pen shows that even an old man can be an ___." |
| OPTIMIST | Bastille "How am I gonna be an ___ about this?" |
| GENERATIONX | ___ _: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991 bestseller by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland) |
| BOB | A Street Cat Named ___, bestseller (3) |
| TATTOO | The Girl with the Dragon ___, bestseller (6) |
| UPROAR | "...lest there be an ___ among the people" (Matt 26:5) |
