Possible Clues:

• '...and ___ the twain shall meet'
• Might the South be derisive with this? Not ever
• Tim? O, that could make it never a helmsman (2'2)
• 'Faint heart ___ won ...'
• 'We shall ___ be younger': Shakespeare
• Not a one to follow Pio in the first place (2' 2)
• That isn't the first of 18 across (2'2)
• Can no one like this not ever be in the artillery?
• Less than seldom, poetically
• ''. . . would thou hadst ___ been born'' (''Othello'')