| 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) |
| YORKIST | Boy retreats, given a smack for speaking up for Richard, perhaps? |
| MONOLOGUES | From Greek for "speaking alone", word for soliloquies or speeches by one actor/person; or, informally, long tedious opinionated diatribes (10) |
| MIT | University that barred Indian-American student Megha Vemuri from commencement event for speaking for Palestine.(abbrv) (3) |
| LECTERN | Place for speaking notes |
