| EARNEST | Play, The Importance Of Being _ _ _ (7) |
| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| OFBEING | Oscar Wilde play, The Importance...Earnest (2,5) |
| IDLE | "The Importance of Being ___" by Oasis |
| MISSPRISM | Governess in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,5) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Character who delivers the line "A handbag?" in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest |
| YEARNTO | "Only those who have denied their being ___ play at it" (Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Lathe of Heaven") |
| BRACKNELL | Lady -; Gwendolen's mother in Oscar Wilde's comic play The Importance of Being Earnest (9) |
| AQUATIC | An animal which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime is referred to as being ___ |
| ABORE | 'The secret of being __ is to tell everything': Voltaire |
| READ | "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being ___": Winston Churchill (4) |
| BORN | Calves are able to run within hours of being ___. |
| STOLEN | "Plagiarists are always suspicious of being ___ from": Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) |
| ALORD | "Being ___ is like being a father..." (Game of Thrones) |
| REALISTIC | "Being ___ is the most common path to mediocrity": Will Smith (9) |
| ERICA | "Being ___" (Canadian series of 2009 to 2011) |
| LOWIS | "Being ___ a real high" (Seal lyric) |
| AGIRL | "I Enjoy Being ___" (Rodgers and Hammerstein tune) |
| ATSIXESANDSEVENS | To ace Math, avoid being __ |
