| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| TOPS | The very best (with "the"): Slang. |
| TOPS | The very best: Slang. |
| MOST | Very cool, in 50's slang, with "the" |
| ALCAPP | Cartoonist whom John Steinbeck said "may very possibly be the best writer in the world today" |
| EBBTIDE | 1960s hit with the line "And the sea is very still once more" |
| WEIRDALYANKOVIC | Singer of "Like a Surgeon" (with the lyric "I can hear your heart beat for the very last time") |
| EMMA | Book whose title character "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her" at the start of the story |
