Back to the Present
by The ghost of Stauf
[5] Greatest lower or least upper, stupidity knows none of it.
[4] Where the liberals are and the British drive.
[6] Important discoveries break it.
[4] A statue's enemy; a symbol of peace.
[4] Pool table and pen tip material.

[3] The smallest unit of information in a computer.
[3] A synonym for "ballad".
[5] To an ocean, what a river would call a "bank".
[5] "'tis but a flesh _____!"
[4] Robbie Burns' love is like a red, red one of these.
Your answer:

Don't worry about lower/upper case and whitespace. They don't matter.