| AAVE | Dialect in the Black community |
| NUYORICAN | Spanish dialect in the Big Apple |
| RASHAD | Actress Phylicia who was nicknamed "The Mother of the Black Community" at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards |
| AFROS | Heads of the black community? |
| CITADELS | Different dialects in the Salvation Army meeting places (8) |
| NIGHTGOWN | Black community on campus giving something to don for retirement |
| CANTONESE | Dialect in which the number two is considered lucky because its character is homophonous for the characters for easy and bright |
| IDENTICAL | Dialect in building sounds the same (9) |
| CITADEL | The unusual dialect in a strongly fortified building (7) |
| INCIDENTALMUSIC | Garbling in dialect in sum before start of classical sound on film, say (10,5) |
| CODESWITCH | Shift between dialects in conversations ... or a three-piece hint to the substitutions in this puzzle's 15th row? |
| DORIC | Ancient dialect in Greenland or Iceland |
| CAJUN | English dialect in which "food shopping" is "makin' groceries" |
| HINDI | Most widely spoken dialect in India (5) |
| PATOIS | Dialect in soap, it proving incomprehensible (6) |
| ANGLONORMAN | French dialect in England after 1066 (5-6) |
| QUEENIE | Children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson based on her character Elsie Kettle; or, regional dialect in S |
| SMACK | A distinct flavour; dialect in parts of northern England for a fried potato scallop; a group of jellyfish; or, an onomatopoeic word for a loud kiss (5) |
| DANUBE | Rising in the Black Forest and flowing to the Black Sea through 10 countries and many cities including Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade, the second-longest river in Europe (6) |
| MOLE | Burrowing mammal associated with the Jacobean toast "to the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat" due to its alleged part in the death of William III (4) |
