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Playground comeback

• 'A House ___ a Home'

• 'Failure -- an option'

• 'Ours -- to reason why'

• 'This -- a drill'

• 'This -- a test'

• A house ___ a home (alternate title for this puzzle?)

• A House ___ a Home: Adler

• Ain't completely?

• Nuh uh!

• Once ___ Enough

• That ___ true!

• The fault, dear Brutus, ___ in our stars...

• The quality of mercy ___ strain'd

• The World ___ Enough (1999 Bond film)

• This ___ a laughing matter

• This ___ happening!

• This Film ___ Yet Rated

• Tomorrow ___ promised

• War ___ the answer

• What ___ to like?

• You're wrong, on the playground

• Ain't fixed?

• Ain't right?

• Ain't, properly

• Argumentative retort

• Argumentative words

• Comeback in a kids' argument

• Contrarian's retort

• Edna St. Vincent Millay's Love ___ All

• Elephant man / animal relationship

• Fails to be

• Playground rejoinder

• Playground retort

• Polly Adler's A House ___ a Home

• Recess retort

• Schoolyard comeback

• Schoolyard retort

• Schoolyard retort, and hint to this puzzle's theme

• Words heard in arguments between kids

• Words in arguments between kids, perhaps