| NISI | Nil ____ bonum: don't speak ill of the dead |
| EULOGISTS | They don't speak ill of dead ravers (9) |
| SLANDERS | Speaks ill of the country and the Queen on board (8) |
| NESSUNDORMA | Aria sung by Calaf in Act Ill of the Puccini opera Turandot (6,5) |
| PANDORA | Her box was filled with all the ills of the world (7) |
| EVILS | Ills of the world |
| MAGNUM | From the Latin for "great", a bottle of wine of twice the standard size; or, with "bonum", a large variety of apple, plum or potato (6) |
| SUMMUM | The greatest good, ____ bonum |
| SATIS | Nil ____ nisi optimum: "enough", motto of Everton FC |
| ROMANSH | The first to retire to the country don't speak the language |
| INTEGRAL | Essential constituent adds up to nil _ great (8) |
| GRATIAE | Ac Syro nil ____! But no thanks for Syrus, Ter. Heaut. 999 |
| UMBO | Clipeus medius; scutum bonum partim |
| OLAV | Major General Sir Nils ___ III (penguin in the Norwegian King's Guard) |
| MACBETH | The Scottish play - the superstitious don't speak its name backstage |
| STEFANIFANSITE | Webpage for devotees of the "Don't Speak" singer? |
| MELIUS | Bonum, ____, optimum (cave!) |
| LOFGREN | Nils ___, American rock musician who is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and Neil Young's Crazy Horse (7) |
| BOHR | Nils ___ (18815 - 1962), Danish scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics along with his son, Aage (4) |
| ISLAND | I speak ill of someone without hesitation in place of 1d (6) |
