| STARSTUFF | What we are made of, per Carl Sagan |
| SCIENCE | "A profound source of spirituality," per Carl Sagan |
| OREOOS | "It's the stuff breakfast dreams are made of," per Post |
| SAGAN | Carl who said, "We are made of star-stuff" |
| FATE | What 'All are architects of,' per Longfellow |
| MEN | What there are so many of, per Miquel Brown |
| ELATED | Ed spins a tale and we are made exultant by it (6) |
| CATFEET | What "the fog comes on," per Carl Sandburg |
| AFAR | "Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are": George Eliot |
| FROMAFAR | "Our deeds still travel with us ___ ___, and what we have been makes us what we are": George Eliot (4,4) |
| MATERIALWORLD | *What "we are living in," per a Madonna hit song |
| DIVORCE | What "marriage is the chief cause of," per Groucho Marx |
| MISOGYNY | What antifeminism is a direct expression of, per Andrea Dworkin |
| COLOR | What everybody says baseball needs more of, per Emmett Ashford |
| ALERTED | We are made watchful when a tale is spread about Red infiltration (7) |
| FOG | It "comes on little cat feet," per Carl Sandburg |
| OFFALYSORRY | What we are for these puns? |
| WERE | Showman leaves washerwomen for what we are (2'2) |
| TOURNAMENT | What we are called in explosive competition |
| ESSENCE | English scene's moving - it makes us what we are |
