| SYNTAX | Order of words (6) |
| CHIASMI | Reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases. (7) |
| ANASTROPHE | The inversion of the usual order of words or phrases (rhet) (10) |
| UPSET | Disturb order of words for its antonym |
| STREAM | A rivulet of running water, thus a drift of same-aged schoolchildren, flow of thought, river of data, surge of words, tide of people or trickle of money (6) |
| VOLLEY | Rapid flight of arrows, fusillade of bullets or an outburst of words (6) |
| IRONIC | Of the use of words to express the opposite of the literal meaning (6) |
| DEBATE | War of words over base at end of aerodrome (6) |
| PHRASE | Group of words as part of a sentence (6) |
| RABBLE | A large flutter of butterflies; a confused stream of words; a mob; or, the so-called great unwashed, hoi polloi or populace, collectively (6) |
| WRITER | An author, man/woman of letters, novelist, pen etc, sometimes cursed with a mental "block" preventing or hindering the flow of words (6) |
| WEASEL | These sort of words are meaningless (6) |
| SCRIPT | Written copy of words to be spoken (6) |
| GLOSSY | Arab censored list of words in magazine (6) |
| HYPHEN | Joiner of words (6) |
| GENDER | Distinction of words, roughly answering to sex (6) |
| CLAUSE | Provision of a group of words |
| SEMTEX | Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive (6) |
| COINER | Inventor (of words, e.g.) (6) |
| TROPES | Poster somehow conveying figurative uses of words (6) |
