| STROMATIC | In rhetoric, application of a word to multiple others of which only one is grammatically suited, e.g. have in he and they have promised to behave (9) |
| TREASON | Crime for which only one person has been executed in New Zealand history (7) |
| RUSSIANROULETTE | Risky game in which only one round matters? (7,8) |
| AGREES | Is grammatically correct, in a way |
| NEUTER | What "it" is, grammatically |
| ANAGRAM | What is the transposition of the letters of a word to form a new word (7) |
| CHARADES | Parlour game in which one team acts out syllables of a word to be guessed by another (8) |
| APORIA | A logical impasse, paradox or state of puzzlement in philosophy; or, in rhetoric, a declaration of doubt (6) |
| PREFIX | Element added to the beginning of a word to create a new one (6) |
| GRASSLANDS | E.g. meadows, of which only a tiny proportion are species-rich (10) |
| ISLES | Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited) |
| SUFFIX | Letters added to the end of a word to form a derivative (6) |
| MEIOTIC | Pertaining to cell division forming gametes, or to a kind of understatement in rhetoric (7) |
| BYELECTION | How all are chosen to take their seats is how only one is chosen too, you see? (2-8) |
| TELEKINESIS | The movement of a body caused by thought or willpower without the application of a physical force |
| DIMINISHING | --- returns, progressively smaller rises in output resulting from the increased application of a single factor of production (11) |
| AMIGO | Costin sports model of which only a few were ever made (5) |
| APOPHASIS | In rhetoric, what is the denial of an intention to speak about something, but at the same time evoki |
| PUN | Humerous use of a word to suggest two or more meanings; a play on words (3) |
| STEM | The root or main part of a word to which formative elements are added (4) |
