| LIPREADS | Beginner praised, in a way, and hears without hearing (3-5) |
| LIPREAD | "Hear" without hearing |
| SEIZE | Sees and hears snatch (5) |
| EXTOLLED | Praised in a way that no longer rang out |
| AITCH | Hears without ears? |
| PATTED | Praised, in a way |
| INHERITS | Tries hard, in a way, and succeeds in the end (8) |
| EDUCATED | Dead cute in a way, and well read |
| ESPOUSES | Use poses, in a way, and embraces some causes (8) |
| MICHELLE | Who is praised in French in a 1965 Beatles song? (8) |
| EUPHORIA | Being high, high up, I hear, without oxygen |
| SEAMLESS | Appear smaller, we hear, without any joining (8) |
| READLIPS | Understand without hearing |
| PREJUDGE | Condemn without hearing before expert (8) |
| LACKS | Slack in a way and is wanting in something or other (5) |
| KINDASORTA | In a way ... and a hint to six additions in this puzzle |
| ICIER | More wintry, in a way, and more dangerous if losing head (5) |
| INSIDEOUT | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| SWORNTO | Affirmed as shabby, in a way, and old (5,2) |
| RETOOL | Modernize, in a way ... and when divided into three parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
