| GRAMMAR | Rules for speaking and writing correctly |
| ESL | US immigrants' class for speaking and writing skills: Abbr. |
| APPOSITE | Suitably, in fit manner, especially of speaking and writing |
| RHETORIC | The art of speaking and writing well and effectively (8) |
| FAMILYCIRCLE | Relatively speaking and in roundabout way, Browns, for example, from the theatre (6,6) |
| MUSICALS | Story-telling through speaking and singing, comes from opera, usually sung in a chest voice, think Disney and Broadway |
| FEARS | Public speaking and heights, commonly |
| WOEBEGONE | Unhappy, stop speaking and go away |
| DICTIONARIES | Book of words reveals way of speaking and sign (12) |
| SALAAM | Greeting used in Arabic- speaking and Muslim countries (6) |
| NONOS | Speaking and pointing at objects, in a game of charades |
| UNOPENED | A French franc, in a manner of speaking, and English old penny still in the box? (8) |
| CLANCY | British pub rock band who recorded the 1970s albums Seriously Speaking and Every Day |
| CROW | In an Aesop fable, what bird is flattered by a fox into speaking and dropping a piece of cheese? (4) |
| ACCIDENTPRONE | One had, in manner of speaking and lying, to be clumsy? |
| DAMMED | Blocked up and sent to hell for speaking out (6) |
| DERRIDA | Exponent of deconstructionism who taught philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference (7) |
| PAPETERIE | French word for an often antiquarian box for stationery and writing materials (9) |
| RIPEN | Develop paper in, for example, reading and writing |
| STUDY | Room in a house for reading and writing, etc (5) |
