| MISUSE | Employ incorrectly, as a word |
| MISUSES | Employs incorrectly (7) |
| MISFED | Placed paper in incorrectly, as a printer |
| MISREAD | Judge incorrectly, as a situation |
| RULEBRITANNIA | Tune librarian catalogued incorrectly as a national anthem (4,9) |
| NATURALISED | Read a fourty three across incorrectly as acculturated |
| ACCIDENTAL | A clan cited incorrectly as unplanned (10) |
| ACRONYM | A sequence of initial letters or parts of words, pronounced as a word, such as Awol, Radar, or Scuba |
| INDEFINITE | ____ article, term for 'a' as a word before a non-specific noun phrase (10) |
| RESPELL | Start on again, as a word at a bee |
| REFERENT | Thing that a symbol, as a word, stands for |
| MISDIAGNOSE | Treat incorrectly as main sides go badly |
| MISSPEAK | Talk incorrectly as Bakewell's beauty queen? (8) |
| MISREADS | Makes out incorrectly, as text |
| MISHEAR | Perceive incorrectly, as spoken words |
| MISCUED | Signaled incorrectly, as an actor |
| IOTA | The name of the smallest Greek letter, from which "jot", as a word for a small amount, derives (4) |
| UNSPOKEN | 'As long as a word remains _, you are its master': Solomon Ibn Gabriol (8) |
| AIDE | Word for "assistant" that sounds the same as a word for "assist" |
| CAMPUS | Latin for "field", whose use as a word for university grounds or a college's proverbial ivy-covered field of study originated at Princeton (6) |
