| SEMITIC | The sort of language you'd expect from that Shem lot! (7) |
| ERSE | It's the sort of language you'd expect from soldiers, Eric! |
| REACTIONS | They're the sort of responses one might expect from that coster, Ian |
| TONGUEINCHEEK | The sort of language used in impertinences with ironic intention (6-2-5) |
| STANDANDSTARE | Is this what Lot's wife was told not to do? It's not what one expects from that blinking lot (5,3,5) |
| SINGING | Naughtiness, booze, a bit of giggling - this is what you'd expect from a choir (7) |
| TRAITOR | It's characteristic or what you'd expect from such a betrayer (7) |
| JAPHETH | One of the three sons of Noah in the Old Testament, brother to Shem and Ham (7) |
| HASIDIM | Members of a Jewish sect founded in the 18th century by Israel Baal Shem Tov |
| SWANSONG | The sort of air that's the last thing you'd expect from the bird (4,4) |
| GREEKGODDESS | That sort of language goes over theologian's head with last pairs of Nike (5,7) |
| UNPARLIAMENTARY | Sort of language that could get you chucked out of the house (15) |
| HASIDIC | Like Jewish followers of Baal Shem Tov |
| SENSES | The sort of internal messages you'd expect from sensory faculties (6) |
| VEDIC | Sort of language that makes some love Dickens |
| POUNDSIGN | Pen sort of language that's found on UK banknotes |
| INDICTED | Accused of sort of language used by young delinquent |
| LEADERSHIP | The piece in the paper on Titanic, for example, is everything you'd expect from the management (10) |
| GOODBREEDING | Synonymous of courtesy perhaps you'd expect from the racy Arabians (4,8) |
| ADULATORY | Deviously laud a Conservative using this sort of language? (9) |
