Choosing Up Sides

The answer to each clue below is a word or phrase containing the word SIDE

-1. Be optimistic
-2. Circus attractions
-3. Strike a glancing blow, as a car
-4. Pink Floyd concept album
-5. Used to ride aside rather than astride
-6. Idiom reminding us to be mindful of who pays us or helps us
-7. Area(s) next to a playing field
-8. To catch or take unaware, especially with harmful results
-9. Drowsiness, nausea, dizziness....
-10. Uproariously funny
-11. Dumber, to Dumb
-12. Section of Manhattan known for fashionable shops and residences
-13. Deviate from a main issue or course
-14. Came to work grouchy?
-15. What's that fly doing in my coffee?
-16. Discomfited after premature exultation
-17. Paved path for pedestrians
-18. Female bonding movie with Whoopie, Drew & Mary-Louise
-19. Pool player's call
-20. Type of pitcher's delivery
-21. Fries, to a Big Mac
-22. Desert rattlesnake
-23. 70's facial hair
-24. One-panel comic by Gary Larson
-25. Agatha Christie novel

1. Look on the bright side

24 - the far side

19. side pocket

11. suck me sideways

2. Side shows
3. Side swipe

10. side splitter

12. lower east side??

4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Side saddle -

Bernie

6. know which side your bread is buttered on

9. side effects

8. blindside
10. side splitting

7. Sidelines

Great solves! Curly, it's "Upper East Side", but you got close enough.

20. sidearm

21. side order

22. sidewinder

23. sideburns

17. sidewalk
18. Boys on the Side

14. got up on the wrong side of the bed
15. the sidestroke

13 - sidestep


25 - the mirror cracked from side to side

16. laughing on the other side of your face

Correct on all sides! I think #15 was my favorite.