| HOWI | Ruth Etting sang, "They asked me ... knew my true love was true; I of course replied, 'Something her |
| PAPI | "Ay ___, I say / to the scar on my belly. i only knew my name / when it came out of her mouth": Jose Olivarez, "Guapo" |
| LORDS | Two days into "The Twelve Days of Christmas," the carol writer's true love was surprised by ten ___ a-leaping |
| ELUSIVE | They asked of Baroness Orczy's creation, "Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That demmed, ... Pimperne |
| LOVEMEORLEAVEME | Song identified with Ruth Etting |
| THEY | "___ asked me how I knew..." |
| AROOMOFONESOWN | 1929 essay with the line "When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant" |
| WEREFRANK | "Our ticket had the winning numbers!!!" ("I've known him for years. He asked me to read his first New York Times op-ed before it was published.") |
| WALRUSMOUSTACHE | So much was true, unfortunately, about a leader in Lenin - that was right under Stalin's nose (6,9) |
| LOLA | The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" |
| ITOOKMY | Gracie Fields sang, "... harp to a party but nobody asked me to play" (1,4,2) |
| MILIEU | True, I limp back up part of my surroundings |
| THEREYOUGO | Heard when the customer got what they asked for? Sounds like their Hugo announced it! (5,3,2) |
| WWWWWWWWW | What was true under my bed? |
| IDIDNTLIE | "My story was true!": 3 wds. |
| CONFIRMED | Stated with assurance that something was true (9) |
| ATTESTED | Declared that something was true (8) |
| PYJAMAS | First of all, probing young journalist asked me about strange bedtime habit? (7) |
| EYECHART | Person with a lot of contacts asked me to look at this? If you get to view it, you're probably seeing things! (3,5) |
| SHES | "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You ___ Sorry" (Fredrik Backman novel) |
