| INDEFINABLE | Like word very hard to clue one put in "banned" file originally |
| DEFINITIONS | Components of clues one fits in, I'd fancy (11) |
| AUTOLOGICAL | Like words describing a property they already possess (like "noun" or "pentasyllabic") |
| ELUCIDATIVE | Case brought after unexpected clue, one providing clarification |
| LIGHTBREEZE | Answer to clue? It's easy, but it causes small wavelets (5,6) |
| COALSCUTTLE | Compiler's first and, bizarrely, last to clue a container for nuts |
| SESQUIPEDALIAN | In a word, very long joke is in a sense laid out (14) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| SCRABBLE | Board-and-tile game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered tiles on a 225-square board, like words in a crossword puzzle. (8) |
| NOUN | Word in grammar like word or grammar |
| SEWER | Pipe- or drain-like word for a tailor or seamstress who works with a needle and thread to stitch the clothes for one's back or the linen for a bed (5) |
| VERBATIM | Word for word, very bad time, endlessly (8) |
| ACROSTIC | A cross tick heard to like word puzzle (8) |
| UNSAID | Like words to the one who got away, perhaps |
| CORSICA | First clue - one across - virtually about an island in the Med |
| DEFINITION | Element of clue, one I'd fit in deviously |
| MUSCLE | Master fresh clues, one of which is very close to the bone (6) |
| FISHGIGS | Fizzy firework- or gimcrack-like word for barbed or pronged leister- or trident-like harpoons for frogging or spearing the catch of the day (8) |
| SORD | A blade-like word for a flight, rising, spring or surge of mallards (4) |
| EXPRESS | Put into words very quickly (7) |
