| PLATITUDES | Commonplace remarks require breadth of interpretation in the postscript (10) |
| PASODOBLE | Interpretation in ballroom dancing of a matador facing a bull in the ring (4,5) |
| STATUTE | Astute interpretation in law (7) |
| ULANOVA | Russian ballerina noted for her interpretations in Giselle and Swan Lake (7) |
| INADDITION | Also part of the postscript (2,8) |
| PLATITUDE | The first of the poets needs breadth of interpretation ___ that's a truism (9) |
| WINGSPREAD | The breadth of a footballer at the feast! (10) |
| LATITUDE | Angular distance from the equator requires some breadth of interpretation (8) |
| VOCABULARY | Breadth of language used by extremely vocal constabulary (10) |
| PIOUS | Religious debt put in the postscript (5) |
| PRESUMES | Takes for granted there's a summary in the postscript (8) |
| PLIGHTS | Promises to put a clue in the postscript (7) |
| PIRATES | Buccaneers angry in the postscript (7) |
| PROMISES | In the postscript, is more prepared to give assurances (8) |
| FINGER | Quantity of spirits in a glass based on the breadth of a digit; a long, narrow biscuit or sponge cake; or, one of the stalls of a glove (6) |
| ECO | "The Limits of Interpretation" author Umberto |
| GEMATRIA | Something valuable used by courts as a means of interpretation |
| ODYSSEY | Epic story, said to have wise doses of interpretation (7) |
| DUODENUM | First part of the small intestine, roughly the breadth of twelve fingers in length (8) |
| THUMB | Associated with a phrase referring to any rough-and-ready practical method, the pollex of a manus; or, the breadth of said digit, as an approximate measure of one inch (5) |
