| THESAURUSES | The SA ancient city operates storehouses of words and phrases |
| DEPOTS | Storehouses of French ceramic pieces (6) |
| DEIXIS | In linguistics, use of words and phrases whose meaning is dependent on the context in which they are |
| SYNTAX | Arrangement of words and phrases (6) |
| ROGET | Surname of the author of a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (5) |
| PETERMARKROGET | British physician, theologian and lexicographer best known for publishing a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852 |
| TRANSITIONS | Writing; Words and phrases that connect one idea to the next (11) |
| ORONYMS | Words and phrases that sound approximately alike, like "ice scream" and "I scream" |
| EXPRESSIONS | The faces one pulls at such words and phrases! (11) |
| ETYMOLOGIST | One who studies the origins of words and the development of their meanings |
| ETYMOLOGY | Study of the history and origin of words and their meaning (9) |
| MARINE | The SA Weather Service underreported the boiling steam coming off the ocean which dumped rain on KZN and the EC, calling it ... air. (6) |
| RUTHMACKENZIE | Who left the position of Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival to take up a position in the SA Government, making way for Brett Sheehy to step into the post as 2025 Director? (4,9) |
| OHMY | Cry of astonishment ... and phrase uttered immediately after saying the plural form each of the answers to the three starred clues, perhaps? |
| THESAURUS | Book with systematically arranged lists of words and their synonyms and antonyms (9) |
| HORSTWESSEL | Berlin leader of the SA made into a martyr for the Nazi cause by Joseph Goebbels after his murder in 1930 (5,6) |
| RED | This colour should be at the top of the SA flag when it's hoisted (3) |
| BROWNSHIRTS | Byname of the SA, a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany (11) |
| SELFADDRESSED | The SA of SAE (4-9) |
| LAIRS | From the German "lager", meaning "storehouses", dens of wild animals (5) |
