| ROMANCELANGUAGE | Lover's speech in French perhaps? (7,8) |
| VOICING | Making speech in French here is no good |
| VERBENA | Part of speech in French introducing a flowering plant (7) |
| CEDILLA | Mark under a consonant in French, perhaps (7) |
| DAWN | A bright start in French, perhaps |
| ORAL | Alternatively, a learner for a test in French, perhaps (4) |
| SNOG | French, perhaps, in England |
| CHANTEUSE | Female singer in a nightclub, French perhaps |
| EUROPEAN | French perhaps sing solver's one anthem (8) |
| TRICOLOUR | Standard of French perhaps something hardly flowing to some ears? |
| LINGUIST | He speaks French, perhaps, lusting over one (8) |
| PEARLEYED | Lacking clear vision, spoke French, perhaps, when English visiting |
| ROMANCE | French perhaps fabricated accounts of love (7) |
| ETRE | Peut-__: French "perhaps" |
| IMPENETRABLE | I'm a writer and, being French, perhaps blear - can't be got through to! (12) |
| CHARLESDEGAULLE | French President who famously said "Vive le Quebec libre!" in a 1967 speech in Montreal: 3 wds. |
| JAWJAWNOTWARWAR | Paraphrase of a line in a speech in 1954 by Winston Churchill (3-3,3,3-3) |
| FIRSTLIEUTENANT | Officer needing loo in speech in US, that would be left here (5,10) |
| DEFINITEARTICLE | Part of speech in a particular newspaper story (8,7) |
| ENGLISHLANGUAGE | It's the familiar speech, in a manner of speaking (7,8) |
