| CHARADES | Game of guessing a word or phrase from acted clues (8) |
| ISPY | A child's game of hide-and-seek or, more commonly, of guessing a word from a given initial letter (1-3) |
| HANGMAN | A game involving guessing a word or phrase one letter at a time |
| CRAMBO | Name, echoing Juvenal's phrase "cabbage served up again", for an old game of guessing and rhymes (6) |
| AMERICANISM | Custom or phrase from the US |
| MONOGRAM | Translating as "word letter", a term for a single character, sign or symbol representing a word or phrase (8) |
| METAPHOR | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied in a non-literal way (8) |
| ANAPHORA | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses (8) |
| REFERENT | Object or idea that a word or phrase stands for (8) |
| ASTERISK | Symbol like a star, to mark a word or phrase (8) |
| ACROSTIC | Verse where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase (8) |
| EMPHASIS | Stress given to a word or phrase (8) |
| ENTENDRE | Double ___, a word or phrase with two meanings, one usually risque (8) |
| LOGOGRAM | Character that represents a word or phrase |
| DEFINITION | A concise explanation/statement of the meaning of a word or phrase; or, sharpness or clarity of outline (10) |
| YESNO | Kind of question you have a 50% chance of guessing correctly |
| ANAGRAM | A word or phrase formed from a jumble of the letters of another (7) |
| TRICK | Guessing a number an audience member has thought of, e.g. |
| WHATSMY | "___ Line? -- TV game show of guessing occupations (5,2) |
| FALSE | Test answer you have a 50/50 chance of guessing right |
