Possible Clues:

• ''__ explained . . .''
• "Just ___ expected!"
• Try - might link
• 'Try ___ may...'
• '___ was saying . . .'
• 'Just -- suspected'
• ...Faulkner's '___ Lay Dying'
• 8-Down "___ lay the present to waste"
• Just-expected joiner
• Dennis Rodman's "Bad ___ Wanna Be"