| CITE | To quote, is to do what (4) |
| ITAL | Alternative to quotes: Abbr. |
| SIC | Latin word, meaning "so, thus, just as", that is used to indicate that an error in a quote is intentional (3) |
| EQUATOR | Line is right after a quote is wrong (7) |
| INCITES | Small coda to popular quote is provoking |
| VOLTAIRE | To whom the quote is attributed |
| GRETAGARBO | Publicity-shunning Swedish-born actress whose most famous movie quote is 'I want to be alone' |
| GENETIC | Information backing quote is coming from a common source |
| SIGHT | Quote is reported, in a sense (5) |
| PATHETIC | 'A way back' quote is lamentable (8) |
| QUITESO | Quote is mis-quoted? Exactly! (5,2) |
| MIMETIC | Mock exam's last part: writer's quote is the wrong way round (7) |
| RECITE | About to quote what elocutionists do (6) |
| INCITEMENT | Though fashionable to quote them, half of the argument is just an attempt to stir things up |
| SADDUCEAN | Simon's first to quote article relating to Pharisees' opponents |
| HARDCHEESE | Bad luck to quote an old Cheshire colloquialism, perhaps...? (4,6) |
| READALOUD | Audible rush permitted to quote from text (4,5) |
| APATHETIC | Indifferent to a way to quote backwards (9) |
| RECITED | The communist is about to quote and it's said from memory (7) |
| SPEAKTHETRUTH | Don't follow advice from perjurer to quote what's Gospel (5,3,5) |