| CLAPPER | Tongue or striker of a bell (7) |
| RIVALDO | Barcelona, AC Milan, AEK Athens and Brazil midfielder or striker (7) |
| WARNE | Paul ....., Wigan Athletic and Rotherham United midfielder or striker (5) |
| TOHEROA | New Zealand's treasured surf clam whose Maori name in question means "long tongue"; or, a green soup or broth made of said shellfish (7) |
| CHIMERA | Striker of note, a fantasy (7) |
| STACHYS | ___ byzantina, perennial, also known as lamb's tongue or donkey's ears (6) |
| RASP | A grating sound; a scrape of a door; a coarse file; a mollusc's tongue; or, a berry synonymous with a boo (4) |
| RAY | Striker of a January deal with Clinton |
| PADDLE | Striker of a polymer ball |
| TANG | Word for a serpent's tongue or an insect's sting originally, later a barb, point, prong or spike; or, bite, punch or smack, as in flavour (4) |
| ORATING | Alternatively a sound of a bell was heard while speaking |
| RINGING | Making the sound of a bell (7) |
| TINTING | Shading can appear in the sound of a bell (7) |
| EVADING | Dodging Eva at the sound of a bell (7) |
| INKLING | Hint of a bell sound without intro (7) |
| TOOTING | Sounding the horn as well as the sound of a bell (7) |
| WEDDING | We would have the sound of a bell for the service (7) |
| HEEDING | Paying attention to ambassador, English, at the sound of a bell |
| SITTING | MPS working or strikers not (7) |
| TASTEBUD | A bulbous nerve ending on the surface of the tongue or in the mouth (5,3) |