| GERUND | Briefly snigger under a noun form of a verb |
| GERUNDS | What are derived noun forms of verbs (7) |
| TENSE | A form of a verb to indicate the time of an action in relation to its utterance (5) |
| MOOD | A form of a verb such as indicative or subjunctive (4) |
| PARTICIPLE | Form of a verb used as an adjective (10) |
| IMPERATIVE | Form of a verb which instructs someone to do something (10) |
| INFINITIVE | Basic form of a verb |
| INF | Basic form of a verb, for short |
| PRETERITETENSE | Simple past form of a verb |
| PASTPARTICIPLE | Form of a verb |
| CONJUGATE | Name all the forms of a verb (9) |
| TENSES | Forms of a verb |
| SCRY | From an aphetic for "catch sight of", a verb meaning "divine by means of crystal-gazing"; or, a collective noun for a bunch, knob, lute, plump, skein, sord, sute or trip of wildfowls (4) |
| NICKER | Dutch word for a clay marble; a seed like said commoney, used in taw; a water demon; a soft neigh, whicker or whinny; a snigger; a thief; or, a pound sterling, quid, squid or smacker (6) |
| EXPLOIT | From "progress, success", an old word for "attempt to capture/control" or "military expedition" that gave rise to the current sense of its noun form, "achievement, deed, heroic feat" (7) |
| PLURAL | Noun form indicating multiple items (6) |
| HER | Found in an anther, and in every herb: the form of 'she' used after a preposition or as the object of a verb! (3) |
| ACTANT | Grammatical term for a noun or noun phrase that functions as the agent of a verb (6) |
| AGENT | Class of noun that denotes the person or thing performing the action of a verb (5) |
| TRANSITIVE | (Of a verb) able to take a direct object |
