| HEADLINES | Mentally, actor's speech was newsworthy. (2,3,9) |
| INTHE | And 16 Mentally, actor's speech was newsworthy. (2,3,9) |
| SHREWSBURYTOWN | Football team given massages on return ___ what could be newsworthy about that? (10,4) |
| TAUT | Trained speech was strained (4) |
| BABEL | Where speech was an impediment |
| DELIVERY | How the speech was made at the handing over? (8) |
| LINCOLNMEMORIAL | Monument where the "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered |
| CUD | In speech was allowed get something to ruminate on (3) |
| DELIVERED | How the speech was brought home (9) |
| ALONGSIDE | Actor's speech, while lengthy, was touching |
| AGINCOURT | Henry V's "band of brothers" speech was made on the eve of which famous battle? (9) |
| EMMA | Young American activist ___ Gonzalez who is known for advocating gun control and a line of her speech was sampled for Madonna's I Rise |
| IMPAIRED | "His speech, was like a tangled chain - nothing ____, but all disordered" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) |
| NEHRU | Indian leader whose 1947 inauguration speech was titled "A Tryst with Destiny" |
| MADEOUT | Managed to identify, though may doubt speech was implied (4,3) |
| ADLIBS | Unrehearsed parts of the actor's speech (2-4) |
| ADLIB | Unrehearsed part of the actor's speech |
| FLUB | Mess up like an actor's speech |
| DROPALINE | Write to tell you to cut the actor's speech? |
| ASIDE | Actor's speech to the audience |
