| SPELLINGMISTAKE | In a word, wrongness |
| SIN | Wrongness |
| IMMORALITY | Wrongness |
| BELIEF | Demonstrate wrongness of fine and conviction (6) |
| ATECROW | Admitted wrongness |
| BATONSINISTER | It shows illegitimacy over wrongness is essential to club? |
| AMORAL | Unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something; unprincipled (6) |
| FINAL | The last in a series of something such as acts in a play, exams in a curriculum, letters in a word or games in a tournament; or, the concluding pitch of a modal melody in music (5) |
| OWL | Strigiform whose name is echoed in a word for a candle-waster, dusk, a night train, a nocturnal reveller, a scholarly look, a solemn/wise person, a tawny-black giant moth's name and, onomatopoeically, |
| CORRECTNESS | Not wrongness |
| ACCURACY | Not wrongness |
| FROCK | Name, preserved in a word for "depose", for a priest's gown or monk's habit; a farm worker's traditional linen shirt; a sailor's jersey; or, a dress (5) |
| LEXEME | A word or stem that is a meaningful unit in a word (6) |
| SESQUIPEDALIAN | In a word, very long joke is in a sense laid out (14) |
| METATHESIS | Transposition of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence (10) |
| OCCASIONALLY | 16dn, once in a while, in a word! (12) |
| TONIC | A keynote; a stressed syllable in a word; quinine water to mix with gin; or, any restorative or pick-me-up (5) |
| TRANSPOSE | Alter the order of letters in a word, or words in a sentence (9) |
| ANAGRAMMED | Rearranged the letters in a word to make another word (Wordplay tip: This clue demonstrates how rearranging the letters in "eleven plus two" can yield "twelve plus one") |
| NIPANDTUCK | In a word, a breast requiring cosmetic surgery? |
