| COLLECTIVENOUN | Part of speech that never refers to one (10,4) |
| SEVEN | Dancing dervishes never refer to boss - NB musical (5,6,3,5,8) |
| HULL | Code 50C refers to one of three MPDs in this city (4) |
| FOOSTERER | Taking in orchestra leader, sadly refers to one who fiddles (9) |
| MIEN | From the French for "facial expression", a literary word that refers to one's air, bearing or demeanour as a reflection of one's character/mood (4) |
| CAT | Cornish Rex, Ragdoll, Tiffanie, tortoiseshell or other such a feline, whose proverbial look at a king refers to one's rights, regardless of status (3) |
| RELATIVECLAUSE | Part of speech that concerns a family member perhaps? (8,6) |
| NOUN | Part of speech that "speech" is |
| AUXILIARYVERB | Part of speech that combines with another of the same kind (9,4) |
| ADJ | Part of speech that can modify a noun: Abbr. |
| REVERB | Echo part of speech that gets behind religious ed. (6) |
| ADJECTIVE | Part of speech that modifies a noun (9) |
| PROPERNOUN | Appropriate part of speech that needs a capital (6,4) |
| ADVERB | Part of speech that usually ends with a y |
| VERB | Part of speech that can be conjugated |
| ACTIONVERB | Part of speech that conveys doing |
| PRONOUNCE | Pass judgment on part of speech that church went after (9) |
| NOUNS | Parts of speech that refer to things, people or places (5) |
| ADVERBS | The parts of speech that modify verbs and more (7) |
| VERBS | Parts of speech that often follow nouns |
