| TAUTOLOGY | Use of words repeating something already implied (9) |
| MEME | Refer to oneself repeating something humorous (4) |
| DOINGIT | Repeating something, gaining aid to distribute (5,2,5) |
| AGAIN | Repeating something, gaining aid to distribute (5,2,5) |
| BOOBOO | Frightening word, repeating error |
| GETWISE | Grow shrewd when you have four-year-old's favourite question word repeating in your ears (3,4) |
| ELOQUENCE | Fluent and powerful use of words (9) |
| TERSENESS | Curt use of words (9) |
| VERBALIST | Person skilled in the use of words |
| ICINGONTHECAKE | Sweet covering something extra on something already good (5,2,3,4) |
| ERASER | A piece of rubber for deleting something already written (6) |
| FAITACCOMPLI | Something already done (French) (4,8) |
| ITSELF | Reflexive form for something already mentioned (6) |
| GILDTHELILY | Adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful (4,3,4) |
| RIDER | Condition added to something already agreed (5) |
| GILDING | ____ the lily, expression meaning 'to adorn needlessly something already beautiful' (7) |
| AFTERTHOUGHT | An addition to something already completed (12) |
| IRONIC | Of the use of words to express the opposite of the literal meaning (6) |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | Use of words conveying the sound of their meaning (12) |
| SOLECISM | Ungrammatical use of words - breach of good manners (8) |
