| HEADCANON | Fan's unconfirmed interpretation of a character or story |
| STOPBIT | In asynchronous data transfers one of a pattern of data which indicate the end of a character or of the whole transmission. (4,3) |
| IMAGE | A representation in art/sculpture of the external form of a person or object; a mental picture evoked by a poem or story; or, a visible impression obtained by a camera (5) |
| DIACRITICAL | --- mark, a symbol placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value or is stressed (11) |
| ACTION | The collective events forming the plot of a drama, film, play or story; the mechanism of a piano or a watch; or, any deed, gesture or thing done (6) |
| EXEGESIS | A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture (8) |
| GRUNDYISM | Alluding to a character or question in the Thomas Morton play Speed the Plough, a word for priggishness, primness or prudery (9) |
| LEITMOTIV | Musical or dramatic theme associated with a character or idea (9) |
| TYPEFACE | The particular artistic interpretation of a collection of alphanumeric symbols or fonts within a family (8) |
| THREEPENCE | Bit of a literal interpretation of a musical based on Kipps? |
| OPERATIONCODE | In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performed |
| TITANIA | The Quarrel of Oberon and -; artist Joseph Noel Paton's interpretation of a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream depicting some 165 fairies (7) |
| RENDITION | Interpretation (of a piece of music etc.) (9) |
| EXEGETE | A person skilled in critical interpretation of a text, especially biblical (7) |
| ANAGOGE | Mystical interpretation of a word |
| READING | Interpretation of a text |
| IMMAD | Interpretation of a dog's growl |
| RECONDITION | Interpretation of a song |
| OPERA | Its performance is the interpretation of a dramatic score (5) |
| READ | Interpretation of a situation |
