| ANAPHORA | Repetition of a word or words to emphasise an image or concept (8) |
| MEME | Quirky online image or concept, internet ... |
| ACCENT | Emphasise an accident payout on the decapitated man (6) |
| IDOL | From the Greek for "form, shape, picture", an image or representation of a god revered as an object of worship; or, by extension, any greatly admired or loved human or thing (4) |
| EMBLEM | An image or device representative of a specific concept (6) |
| DEOGRATIAS | Could be a rise - ta, God ... or words to that effect (3,7) |
| MIDDLEMAN | He's an intermediary named Mild or words to that effect |
| ICONO | A combining form, an image or likeness |
| ELLIPSIS | Omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues |
| ACROSTIC | A poem or puzzle in which certain letters in each line form a word or words (8) |
| PROMPTER | A person supplying a forgotten line or word to an actor (8) |
| RETRONYM | A type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent form or version |
| IDEOGRAM | Symbol such as a Chinese character, numerical, emoji or mathematical sign that represents an idea or concept (8) |
| ACCENTED | Of a word or syllable, stressed (8) |
| MEREMERE | Simple repetition of a Waikato town (8) |
| DITTO | Word or sign used to indicate repetition of a word used above or previously (5) |
| PARADIGM | Model or concept |
| ABBREVIATION | Shortened form of a word or words (12) |
| ACROSTICS | Poems or word puzzles in which certain letters in each line form a word or words (9) |
| TRANSPOSE | Alter the order of letters in a word, or words in a sentence (9) |
