Answer:

absence

Answer	Crossword Clue
ABSENCE	Issue for Marco Rubio, vis-a-vis his Senate voting
ABSENCE	Attendance-book notation
ABSENCE	Truant's offense

ABSENCE	Failure to show up
ABSENCE	Lack
ABSENCE	Truancy
ABSENCE	Fondness intensifier?
ABSENCE	It makes the heart grow fonder, they say
ABSENCE	Attendance record spoiler
ABSENCE	Inattentiveness
ABSENCE	Deficiency

ABSENCE	Attendance stat
ABSENCE	Period away
ABSENCE	"That common cure of love," according to Cervantes
ABSENCE	Deficiency.
ABSENCE	Possible truancy.
ABSENCE	Fondness promoter.
ABSENCE	Being away.
ABSENCE	Item of classroom record.

ABSENCE	Scholastic cut.
ABSENCE	Teacher's concern.
ABSENCE	Lack.
ABSENCE	Heart-helping condition
ABSENCE	Fondness intensifier
ABSENCE	Item on a pupil's record
ABSENCE	Truancy, e.g.
ABSENCE	Cause of more fondness?

ABSENCE	Fondness promoter?
ABSENCE	"... makes the heart..."
ABSENCE	It makes the heart grow fonder
ABSENCE	Report card notation
ABSENCE	It may be excused
ABSENCE	It may be put down on a roll
ABSENCE	Failure to appear
ABSENCE	Missed day

ABSENCE	Romance enhancer, proverbially
ABSENCE	Total lack
ABSENCE	Attendance record notation
ABSENCE	Perfect attendance spoiler
ABSENCE	Void