Possible Clues:

• Reply to 'That a fact?'
• 'It's shortly that I sit up (2,2)'
• Bruce Hornsby and the Range "The Way ___"
• ''. . . but you know how __''
• Senior suffix
• Suffix with tonsil
• Short statement or question
• Illness's end?
• "How sweet —!"
• ''How sweet ___!''