| SIMILE | It is like a figure of speech (6) |
| METAPHORICAL | Like a figure of speech |
| ACADEMIA | Graduated scale on a globe, sundial etc. showing the daily declination of the sun, shaped like a figure of eight (8) |
| ASTERN | It is like a gull that is behind a sailor (6) |
| JACKET | It is like a coat, but smaller (6) |
| ASKING | It is like a monarch issuing an invitation (6) |
| ASTUTE | You have a taste of what it is like to be shrewd (6) |
| SNEEZE | "I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good ___": D.H. Lawrence (6) |
| ANGINA | It is like quinsy in a nag maybe (6) |
| FAVOUR | Look like a figure four on the outside (6) |
| SCHEME | Term for a figure of speech originally, later a diagram of the aspects of celestial objects, hence a chart, design, outline or plan (6) |
| THREEFOURTIME | It is like a waltz, therefore it - um - changes (5-4,4) |
| TROUPE | Theatrical company texted you to appear in A Figure of Speech (6) |
| ZEUGMA | God almost good parent, to use a figure of speech(6) |
| ELOPING | It is like a ramp when you move logs around a pin (7) |
| COALTIT | Was a small company at altitude? It is like a little black bird (4-3) |
| CORM | It is like a bulb, in garlic or mushroom (4) |
| ORATED | Became a figure of speech? |
| ANALEMMA | Astronomical diagram showing the sun's position in the sky as viewed from a set point at a set hour over the course of a year, shaped like a figure 8 (8) |
| ASPEN | It is like the writer that finds a tree (5) |
