| ADO | Like "n" and "r," in phonetics |
| SONANT | Like "n" and "r," in phonetics |
| SONORANT | Like L or R, in phonetics |
| OPQ | Letters twixt N and R |
| SPELLBINDER | Great orator might thus use letters B, D, E, I, N, and R (11) |
| ENDS | R and R in Rochester, e.g. |
| TRADE | Exchange (as A and R in this puzzle) |
| PLATITUDINARIAN | Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place (15) |
| PLOSIVE | Like "t," "k" and "p," in phonetics |
| PRACTICE | Like "t," "k" and "p," in phonetics |
| GLIDE | Portamento in music; a smooth graceful step in dancing the waltz; or, a semivowel in phonetics (5) |
| AGMA | In phonetics, the sound or symbol of the velar nasal consonant, as in the 'ng' of long or the 'n' of sink (4) |
| NASAL | "m" or "n", in phonetics |
| GUTTURAL | In phonetics, sound pronounced in the throat (8) |
| VELAR | Like some consonants, in phonetics |
| TRILLING | In phonetics, sounding an 'r' through rapid vibrations of the tongue against the palate (8) |
| SOUNDSHIFT | In phonetics, a process such as the change of long vowels between medieval and modern English |
| LENE | Smooth breathing, in phonetics |
| VOWELLENGTH | Short or long, in phonetics |
| LENIS | Weakly pronounced consonant, in phonetics |
