| STATEFAIR | 1945 musical that won Rogers and Hammerstein an Oscar for It Might as Well Be Spring |
| GAMEKEEPER | Goalie who's up for it might be one of Rangers |
| CAROUSEL | Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein (8) |
| HAMMERSTEIN | Oscar --- II, songwriter who collaborated with Richard Rodgers on the 1946 Oscar-winning song It Might As Well Be Spring (11) |
| IFEELSO | "I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud; Or a robin on a wing; But ... gay in a melancholy way; That it might as well be Spring" (1,4,2) |
| TONELOC | Rapper who sang "If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might as Well Be You)" in "FernGully: The Last Rainforest" |
| DONE | In South Pacific Nellie declares, "I have heard people rant and rave and bellow; That we're ... and we might as well be dead; But I'm only a cock-eyed optimist" |
| STOPPARD | Playwright Tom who also wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love (and won an Oscar for it) |
| NIGELPLANER | "I won't say anything because no one ever listens to me anyway. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record," he complained as the much put-upon hippie, Neil, in The Young Ones (5,6) |
| BOAL | Mark who wrote the screenplay to "The Hurt Locker" (and won an Oscar for it) |
| HELP | Which, it seems, might as well be 23! (4) |
| SEPTEMBER | It might as well rain until sung that month (9) |
| POOP | It might as well turn up the deck at the stern... (4) |
| NORMARAE | 1979 movie that won a Best Original Song Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" |
| BESPRING | "It Might As Well___" |
| UNTIL | Carole King song, It Might as Well Rain ___ September |
| ROTOR | Part of a dynamo might as well be taken up (5) |
| SCRAP | Fragment might as well be stuff disposed of (5) |
| IRAN | It might as well rain in the country |
| YOLO | "Screw it, might as well" |
