| ATLASSHRUGGED | 1957 novel with the line "There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think" |
| THEMATRIX | Movie with the line "There is no spoon" |
| TENDERBUTTONS | Gertrude Stein book with the line "There is no use at all in a smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything . . ." |
| TAXMAN | Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" |
| MACBETH | Shakespeare tragedy with the line: "There's daggers in men's smiles". (7) |
| NOSEY | Curious about the refusal to come up with an agreement (5) |
| NOUS | The refusal to be by ourselves makes sense |
| UNCONSIDERED | Not given a thought except by the United Nations? (12) |
| SEUSS | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| DRSEUSS | Source of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| LEPEREGORIOT | Balzac novel with the line "In that case I will make you an offer that no one would decline." |
| ANIMALFARM | George Orwell novel with the line "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one." |
| ICLAUDIUS | Novel with the line "My birth occurred in the 744th year after the foundation of Rome by Romulus" |
| EMMA | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| MEXICANGOTHIC | Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel with the lines "The walls speak to me. They tell me secrets" |
| LOLITA | 1955 novel with the line "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight" |
| ANNA | "___ Karenina" (novel with the line, "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content") |
| IDLE | An ____ mind is the devil's workshop, proverb meaning that laziness can produce evil thoughts (4) |
| DENIAL | The refusal of a request for business agreement to include Northern Ireland (6) |
| KNOWS | Realises, from the refusals to state (5) |
