| AFAN | "I've always been ___ of yours!" |
| APART | "You'll always be ___ of me" |
| APAIR | "I should have been __ of ragged claws": Eliot |
| ADANCER | "She said she'd always been ___" (Beatles) |
| IMMIGRANT | "American literature has always been ____" (Salman Rushdie) |
| OMELETTE | "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this ___ of yours?" - Victor Serge, on the Russian Revolution (attributed) (8) |
| MERIT | "If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no ___ of yours: nature did it": Charlotte Bronte (5) |
| IMA | ___ big fan of yours!: 2 wds. |
| PATRON | I'll have no part in being a customer of yours! |
| TEMPER | Soften that nasty mood of yours! (6) |
| KNEES | It's lowering, going on those benders of yours! |
| INDUSTRY | In the beginning, what's at the heart of this is what we have always been, really, from start to finish, despite all of this busy work. (8) |
| HUB | "The ... capital has always been the financial of the country" |
| JON | 'I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in ab |
| SOMA | "I'm all by myself, as I've always felt" Pumpkins |
| LIE | "Thanks, it's just what I've always wanted," often |
| AWEARY | 'I gin to be ___ of the sun': Macbeth |
| FOND | Be ___ of; have a liking for |
| ASON | "I'll be ___ of a gun!": 2 wds. |
| PROUDER | I couldn't be ___ of your accomplishments! |
