| ELISION | Omission of a sound or syllable in a word, as when over becomes o'er or it is becomes 'tis (7) |
| METATHESIS | Transposition of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence (10) |
| ELIDE | Omit (a sound or syllable) in speech |
| APOCOPE | Omission of the final sound or syllable of a word, as when photograph becomes photo (7) |
| DASH | This appears in a word as hyphenated (4) |
| DRAGON | Tediously persist, in a word, as monster (6) |
| GOBI | One marsh, when turned over, becomes a desert (4) |
| OBSESS | ------ over, become fixated with |
| SYNCOPE | Omission of a letter or syllable from the middle of a word, as in the common pronunciations of Wednesday, library etc. (7) |
| APHESIS | Linguistic term for the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word, as in round from around (7) |
| AVIATOR | It's for Ava or it is for some airman (7) |
| AVERRED | Stated a word as a German might say it? |
| TOOMUCH | Sacred syllable, in a sense, is more than one can take (3,4) |
| PROSTHESIS | Experts' treatise on the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word (10) |
| TARNISH | End of fish after lake is become tainted |
| PARAGOGE | In grammar, the addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, as the st of amongst (8) |
| TONIC | A keynote; a stressed syllable in a word; quinine water to mix with gin; or, any restorative or pick-me-up (5) |
| SHALALA | Nonsense syllables in a 1965 song title |
| TONE | The quality or character of a sound; or, the shade of a colour (4) |
| APOCOPATE | To cut off of the last sound or syllable of a word (9) |
