| HIGHSOUNDING | Grandiloquent way of describing the soprano voice |
| SCANSION | The practice of describing the metrical pattern of verse (8) |
| BONVIVANT | Nice way of describing of a hedonist? (3,6) |
| MODERN | _ classics, a more contemporary way of describing cars like the MX-5 (6) |
| BOXER | Way of describing crater? Rocky, say (5) |
| KEYNES | Economist's way of describing major speeches without books (6) |
| NEWYEARSEVE | Another way of describing 31 December (3,5,3) |
| CREMEDELA | Nice way of describing 19Ac's elite? (5,2,2,5) |
| CREME | Nice way of describing 19Ac's elite? (5,2,2,5) |
| EASYTERMS | A nice way of describing such a messy rate! |
| SOUPEDUP | Informal way of describing a performance-modified car (6-2) |
| COP | Less-formal way of describing Rose Delaney's job in Summer Bay (3) |
| ARISTA | Is art a way of describing such a bristle-like appendage? (6) |
| LYRIC | The words of a song or the type of soprano voice in which they might be sung |
| HIGH | Nature of a soprano's voice (or description of the price of a coveted front row seat) |
| TEKANAWA | Surname of the soprano who recorded 'World in Union' for the 1991 Rugby World Cup (2,6) |
| TREBLES | Increase the number of soprano voices |
| ARIA | Head off the soprano, Callas to get the song (4) |
| ALTO | Vocal range higher than the tenor and lower than the soprano (4) |
| TREBLE | Triple - soprano voice (6) |
