| PENNING | Composing or writing |
| PROBLEMIST | One composing or solving chess conundrums |
| BLOCK | Rectangular packaged portion of butter, cheese, chocolate or ice cream; a model of a head upon which to fashion a hat or a wig; or, a pad of drawing or writing paper (5) |
| ELLIPSIS | Omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues |
| TOSH | Pretentious or silly talk or writing. |
| DROLL | Pretentious or silly talk or writing (5) |
| POLEMIC | Speech or writing that fiercely attacks or defends (7) |
| ELOQUENT | Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing (8) |
| OPUS | Great work or writing or music by composers |
| TWADDLE | Trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense (7) |
| TONGUEINCHEEK | Speaking or writing in an ironic or insincere way (6,2,5) |
| RHETORIC | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing (8) |
| SHED | Wooden garden shelter used for potting up plants or as a workshop/ studio for hobbies, art or writing (4) |
| STUDY | An exercise in art; a musical etude; or, a room devoted to academic work, reading or writing (5) |
| SEPIA | The genus of the cuttlefish; said cephalopod's defensive ink which is traditionally employed for drawing, painting or writing; or, the fine brown colour of this (5) |
| IMPLEMENT | A do-it-yourself gadget, gardening tool, kitchen utensil or writing instrument, such as a chisel, dibber, pastry cutter, pencil etc; or, any agent serving to achieve a purpose (9) |
| VERBIAGE | Excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing (8) |
| RAMBLER | A rover or wayfarer who enjoys long walks in the countryside; a climbing or trailing plant, such as a multiflora rose with clusters of small fragrant blooms; or, a babbler, lacking organisation in spe |
| ERRATA | Latin word for "mistakes", thus faults in printing or writing; or, corrigenda in books, listing printers' mistakes and their corrections (6) |
| MORCEAU | French word for a bit, bite, crumb, little piece or snippet of something, particularly food, music or writing (7) |
