| ROSTRUM | Place to speak to audience or turn and play chords |
| ASSUREDNESS | When beginning to speak to audience, you blush, acquiring confidence |
| ODIUM | Place to speak from, quelling initial repugnance |
| DAIS | Place to speak in Russia, yes, does exist (4) |
| CATCALL | A squeaking or wauling noisemaker formerly used to express disapproval in a theatre, thus a term for a boo, gibe, hiss, jeer or raspberry from a crowd or audience; or, a "swit swoo" sound (7) |
| ERROR | It's a mistake to express hesitation or turn and run (5) |
| ROLLIN | Cry to attract an audience or people to participate (4,2) |
| ROOSTS | Where creatures sleep or turn and toss agitatedly (6) |
| GOLEGIT | Give up the criminal life or turn and run? |
| ASIDE | An actor's remark to the audience - or a team (5) |
| AISLE | Passageway through audience or congregation (5) |
| STRATUM | Play chords around a time for bed (7) |
| CROWD | Audience or spectators (5) |
| HISS | A sharp sibilant sound of an angry cat, defensive goose/snake, disapproving audience or a gas leak (4) |
| STRUM | Play chords, possibly |
| PROMS | Short word for walks; seafront parades; classical concerts originally involving perambulating audiences; or, school dances (5) |
| STRUMS | Plays chords, perhaps |
| PUTTHROUGH | Forced to undergo, to be allowed to speak to (3,7) |
| STUTTER | Way to speak, to speak with difficulty |
| TORYPARTY | Political group to right wise, so to speak, to embrace role |
