| SETFORTH | Explain ideas, as in a speech |
| ORATING | Speaking, as in a speech (7) |
| VOCAL | Delivered as in a speech (5) |
| THEMES | Dominant ideas, as in literature |
| INSPIRE | Give rise to lofty ideas, as in church architecture (7) |
| BRAINSTORM | Look for ideas as a group |
| AFORESAID | American in favour of new ideas, as previously mentioned |
| TOT | Quot homines, ____ sententiae: as many ideas as men |
| ECHO | Make a sound comeback in a speech original in content (4) |
| JAWJAWNOTWARWAR | Paraphrase of a line in a speech in 1954 by Winston Churchill (3-3,3,3-3) |
| VIOLETS | Containing ionone esteemed in perfumery, wild flowers mentioned in a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet whose name is suggestive of their colour (7) |
| PALISADE | A friend with different ideas as to construction of fence (8) |
| MISREAD | Got the wrong ideas, as from someone's looks |
| TELEPATHIC | Appropriating your ideas, as you thought |
| PLAGIARIST | One using another's ideas as if one's own |
| DENSE | Packed with ideas, as an essay |
| VICTORY | Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar; or, a word quoted several times by Winston Churchill in a speech (7) |
| HOUSEDIVIDED | "A ___ against itself cannot stand" (phrase in a speech by Pres. Lincoln, and description of the circled letters) |
| GNOMES | In a speech, what did British politician Harold Wilson call the financiers in Zurich? (6) |
| KASHMIR | Region described by General Asim Munir as Pakistan's 'jugular vein' in a speech before the Pahalgam terror attack. (7) |
