| FIRSTPERSON | In grammar, the writer or speaker (5,6) |
| WORDSMITH | Skilled writer or speaker (9) |
| STYLI | Pen left with the writer or writers |
| ELIOT | George the writer or poet T.S. |
| ALTEREGO | In literary analysis, a character representing the author or their views (5,3) |
| PSALMIST | The author or composer of a devotional song (8) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Poet or speaker as he develops (11) |
| PARAGOGE | In grammar, the addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, as the st of amongst (8) |
| AGENT | In grammar, the doer of an action, typically expressed as the subject of an active verb (5) |
| GENITIVE | (In grammar) the possessive case (8) |
| SINGULAR | In grammar, the number category that implies only one (8) |
| FUTUREPERFECT | (In grammar) the tense descriptive of things that will have been done (6,7) |
| HYPOTAXIS | In grammar, the subordination of one clause to another, typically using a conjunction (9) |
| ATTRIBUTION | The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist |
| LOUD | Mouth or speaker starter |
| KEYNOTE | Kind of speech or speaker |
| ORATOR | Opera's lead singer or speaker (6) |
| GUEST | Invited performer or speaker (5) |
| HECKLING | Disruptive shouting of abuse at a comedian or speaker |
| PENNER | Word for a writer or composer; a case for carrying their nibs, quills or stylographs; or, one who corrals, herds or shepherds cattle, pigs, sheep or other livestock into folds, stalls or sties (6) |