| IMEANT | Backpedaler's words of |
| IMEAN | Backpedaler's words |
| OTOH | Online backpedaler's intro |
| LIBRETTO | Book of words of a musical (8) |
| PROVERBS | Words of 3 for doing words (8) |
| LYRICIST | Writer of words of song (8) |
| ITWAS | Opening words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| BUTFEWARECHOSEN | Last words of the Parable of the Marriage Feast |
| AWHITER | Apparently Keith Reid just won't explain the words of Procul Harum's 1976 hit, ... Shade Of Pale (1, |
| ITHEEWED | One article from sweetheart in middle of week offering three words of commitment formally (1,4,3) |
| HOPIN | Words to a hitchhiker, and a literal hint to what spans both words of the answers to starred clues |
| KIDFRIENDLY | Suitable for the whole family, or an apt description of the first words of the answers to the starre |
| ITSINTHEBAG | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the sta |
| LYRICS | Antics of Cyril Knowles ultimately inspire words of popular song (6) |
| ANTIQUITY | Words of resignation from Dec to end of May in times gone by? (9) |
| TOMORROW | Milton's moving words - the awesome, wondrous words of transport arrangement (8,2,5,5,3,8,3) |
| ANON | Article concerning author of words of "Away in a Manger"? (4) |
| VOICEOVER | Words of unseen talker putting love at the heart of immorality unduly (5-4) |
| RICHARDOFYORK | First three words of a well-known acronym for the sequence of colours in a rainbow (7,2,4) |
| NEVER | Succinct version of the combined final words of the starred answers |
