| IDIOM | Figurative expression such as "over the moon"(5) |
| GRAVE | Accent over certain vowels such as over the first e in the French name Lumiere (5) |
| UMLAUT | Mark placed over a vowel in German indicating modification in its quality, such as over the letter u in the name Jurgen (6) |
| SLUNG | Thrown, as over the shoulder |
| LATIN | Ancient language used in expressions such as 'ad hoc' and 'et cetera' (5) |
| SKIDS | The _ _ _ _ _ , figurative expression for a downward path (5) |
| TROPE | Poet managed to get right figurative expression (5) |
| NOISY | Unruly as over-inquisitive one enters (5) |
| VAULT | A secure room often with individual safe-deposit boxes for safekeeping / to jump, leap or spring as over a barrier |
| VISTA | A distant view through or along an avenue / an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events) |
| PROVERB | Type of saying or expression such as look before you leap, honesty is the best policy or familiarity |
| CREATIVE | Computational aesthetics is a subfield of AI concerned with the computational assessment of beauty in domains of human ________ expression such as music, visual art, and poetry (8) |
| ARTTHERAPY | Treatment through creative expression such as painting or sculpture |
| FULSOME | Seethe about LSO as over the top |
| EMOTICON | Pictorial representation of a facial expression such as a smile, created with keyboard characters (8) |
| REPORTING | Working as journalist, call about figurative expression one's picked up |
| TOWROPE | Robust line in figurative expression that hurts |
| HAGGLE | Dicker, as over price |
| ASIDES | Private words, as over a party (6) |
| HASSLERS | People who like to wrangle and bargain, as over a price (8) |
