Crossword puzzle clue "with legs stretched widely on each side of"

With legs stretched widely on each side of

"I go on four legs in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and on three legs in the evening ..."

Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length

With legs stretched apart — tirades (anag)

Stretched one's legs?

Source of the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad"

Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce

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