| MIMED | Acted, though one didn't have a speaking part (5) |
| EXTRA | On background: He's a performer without a speaking part |
| TRUNK | A box for fish; a chest for storage or travel; an elephant's proboscis; a peashooter; or, a speaking tube (5) |
| STOOD | Was a candidate, but didn't have a seat (5) |
| MURAL | The picture on the wall that one didn't have to hang (5) |
| RODEO | Didn't have a mount in the cowboy show? (5) |
| LAIKA | Admire a speaking dog from Russia (5) |
| SPAIN | Country that somehow didn't have a premier class GP winner until 1992. (5) |
| TYSON | Boxer who said: "Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent" (5) |
| NAMUR | Capital of Wallonia, French-speaking part of Belgium (5) |
| HEARD | He had a run though one listened to (5) |
| TRIED | Bound to let rain in, though one did one's best (5) |
| DICTIONARIES | In a manner of a speaking, part of the horoscope in publications that are wordy perhaps in the extreme (12) |
| ORATOR | A speaking part in Tora! Tora! Tora! (6) |
| MIME | Performer without a speaking part |
| MARCEAU | Only performer with a speaking part in 1976's "Silent Movie" |
| BALAAMSASS | Donkey who had a speaking part (7,3) |
| ILLSAY | I'm going to get a speaking part (3,3) |
| ARUBA | Dutch-speaking part of the West Indies |
| APPLE | Traditionally offered by a temptress to attract, though one a day, oddly, is held to keep the doctor |
