Crossword-Clue: "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw 1 answer with 5 letters 💡

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1. "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing", per Oscar Wilde 43.93%
2. People who know "the price of everything and the value of nothing", per Oscar Wilde 43.93%
3. It's "more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", per Mark Twain 41.28%
4. What "sends forth / His fiery breathings from the broken flues," per Virgil 39.22%
5. "Someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger", per Dan Rather 37.77%
6. "He died the most beloved person on the planet," per Ken Burns 37.31%
7. "They're like the Mafia. They can take anything they want," per an episode of "Seinfeld" 37.04%
8. One of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, per Isaiah 11 37.04%
9. "A book which people praise and don't read," per Mark Twain 36.84%
10. One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be," per Ambrose Bierce 36.61%
11. "The culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music," per Tchaikovsky 36.53%
12. It "isn't so bad when you consider the alternative," per Maurice Chevalier 36.10%
13. "The lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first," per Oscar Levant 35.58%
14. "The most unexpected of all things that happen to a man," per Leon Trotsky 35.12%
15. Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness 35.11%
16. "Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia Woolf 35.00%
17. a unit of luminance of a surface emitting one lumen per square foot 34.83%
18. "A brilliant personification of the very essence of fanaticism," per the book "Melville: His World and Work" 34.75%
19. They lack hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid, per Bilbo Baggins 34.74%
20. Company whose 1995 lavender Oscars dress for Uma Thurman "changed the red carpet rules," per the _Financial Times_ 34.57%

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