| HASTE | "Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than ___": Ralph Waldo |
| KITSCHIEST | Is thickset criminal more vulgar than anyone else? |
| LEWDERWELDER | Applicant must be more vulgar than our other metalworkers |
| COMMONER | No lord will be more vulgar than this (8) |
| EVILDOER | "Nothing is easier than to denounce the ___; nothing is more difficult than to understand him": Dostoyevsky |
| ASTONISHING | In need of new direction as nothing is amazing |
| EFFORT | "Enthusiasm is the mother of ___": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| APPLES | "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears _": Ralph Waldo Emerson (6) |
| INRUINS | "A man is a god ___ ___": Ralph Waldo Emerson (2,5) |
| IDEA | "Nothing is more powerful than an ___ whose time has come", per Victor Hugo |
| GROSSER | In speech shopkeeper is more vulgar |
| GROCER | Shopkeeper is more vulgar, we hear |
| THECOAST | You can put it in neutral now as nothing is in the road (3,5,2,5) |
| ISCLEAR | You can put it in neutral now as nothing is in the road (3,5,2,5) |
| FEAR | "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on __": Camus |
| APPLE | Nothing is more American than this sweet, edible fruit |
| SINCERE | "A friend is a person with whom I may be ____" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| PURLOINEDLETTER | Titular item in a Poe story whose Latin epigraph translates to "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cunning" |
| HOARDER | I keep everything: retaining nothing is more difficult |
| CHOOSIER | Cold shopkeeper, receiving nothing, is more difficult to please |
