| DOWNRIGHT | Utter "thing" word when upset (9) |
| JUVENILIA | From the Latin for "youthful things", word for the paintings, writings or other works produced during an artist or author's adolescence or childhood (9) |
| ELECTORAL | Elite using the spoken word when relating to constituents (9) |
| IMMEDIATE | Word when combined with family means close relatives (9) |
| TOOKASIDE | Had a quiet word when partial (4,5) |
| PARTIILAM | End of a trilogy, and a phrase that hints at each circled word when entering it in the Down direction |
| TALKEDBIG | Used long words when one bragged? (6,3) |
| BONVOYAGE | Doctor gave boy no parting words when travelling (3,6) |
| IMHUMBLED | Gracious words when accepting an honor |
| SALESTALK | Words when flogging dog on short, damaged leash (5,4) |
| IMENGAGED | Words when showing a ring |
| NERDALERT | Teasing words when someone starts listing the digits of pi, say |
| ETTUBRUTE | Julius Caesar's last words when being stabbed to death, according to Shakespeare (2,2,5) |
| NOUN | Thing word (4) |
| WHATCHAMACALLIT | Word when you can't find the word |
| ATE | Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starre |
| THERE | Consoling word, when repeated |
| ONTIME | Looking back, release negative word when expected (2,4) |
| FAREWELL | Word when going to get on prosperously (8) |
| DESSERTS | that forms another word when read backward |
