| MEANINGS | Polysemous words have multiple of these |
| EARTHS | Multiple of these may exist in a multiverse |
| SPEEDS | Electric fans often have multiple of them |
| SCOOPS | An ice cream cone might have multiple of them |
| FLUTTER | A polysemous word for a modest wager or bet; a heartbeat; a flap of a wing; a bat of one's eyelashes; a sensation or stir; a group of butterflies or flags; or, a fairy formation (7) |
| TRIPS | A polysemous word for jollies or tootles to Crete, small flocks of fowl or sheep, stumbles over laces or feet on the street, hallucinogenic journeys care of a special psilocybin-rich forest treat and |
| COOLER | A polysemous word for a heat-reducing cell, chilly bin, drinks chest, esky, fan, fruit cup refresher, jail, long summer spritzer, mini refrigerator or picnic box pack containing gel (6) |
| SQUAT | Polysemous word whose core sense, "compress, flatten, force together, press down", led to its various meanings including a crouch, a deep knee-bend exercise, a hare's form or a building unlawfully occ |
| MAGAZINE | Polysemous word for a military storehouse, a ship's powder-room or a chamber for holding cartridges in a rifle, contrasted with a high-end fashion periodical or glossy (8) |
| NINE | The sum of the digits of any multiple of ___ is a multiple of ___ (arithmetic curiosity) |
| SYLLABLE | All these words have one each! |
| RHIMES | "Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power." She was head writer and executive producer of the TV series Scandal, among many other credits. |
| CLIMATECHANGE | These two climate words have a naffish, neutralising effect but they describe something globally terrifying. (7,6) |
| SYNONYMS | Which words have nearly the same meanings as other words (8) |
| HYPHENATION | Use of a dash to indicate that words have a combined meaning (11) |
| IMPRESS | "Words have no power to _ the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality": Edgar Allan Poe (7) |
| ADAGE | 'Words have consequences,' e.g. |
| SCRIPTURE | Dramatic words have to turn around some sacred texts (9) |
| AMEN | "Truer words have never been spoken!" |
| OVERSHADOW | Open-mouthed initially, words have failed, seeing eclipse |
