| ADNOUN | The "naked," the "quick," or the "dead," grammatically speaking |
| CIVILSERVANT | The Naked --- ---, the 1968 autobiography of Quentin Crisp (5,7) |
| EDEN | Where "they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" |
| HORRORMOVIEDIRECTOR | Canada's David Cronenberg for "Scanners" (1981) or "The Dead Zone" (1983) or "The Fly" (1986): 3 wds. |
| ARCHANGEL | A divine messenger of the highest order, or one ranking eighth in the celestial hierarchy; a name of a herb with aromatic hollow stems, often candied for cakes or puddings; a breed of fancy pigeon; or |
| ASEA | On the Red or the Dead |
| SEA | Body of water like the Red or the Dead |
| PERFECTTENSE | Ideal drawn from the past, grammatically speaking (7,5) |
| FIRSTPERSON | Some might say it's Adam or I, grammatically speaking |
| NOUN | A person, place or thing, grammatically speaking |
| TENSE | Past, present, or future, grammatically speaking |
| ADROIT | Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought (6) |
| DECLINE | Turn down, grammatically speaking? (7) |
| PRONOUN | He is an example, grammatically speaking (7) |
| SNAP | Word either for a ginger biscuit or thin; a cold spell; a card game; or, a quick or informal photo (4) |
| APIAN | Quick or prompt to act or respond. (5) |
| SYNCOPE | "Ne'er," grammatically speaking |
| ABLATIVE | It's one of those cases, grammatically speaking, of a barman getting active without Charlie (8) |
| PASTAPARTICIPLE | *Spaghettified, grammatically speaking? |
| DATIVES | Indirect objects, grammatically speaking |
