| YUM | Word a cook likes to hear |
| SKILLET | Cook likes to keep initially low temperature for cooking pot (7) |
| SAFE | Word a sliding runner likes to hear |
| AYE | Word a captain likes to hear |
| OUT | A word a batsman doesn't like to hear! |
| GOWALKIES | Words a dog likes to hear (2,7) |
| AHA | What a teacher likes to hear from a pupil |
| PREFERENCESTOCK | Entitlement to fixed dividend is what one likes to hear, in a way (10,5) |
| OLE | What a matador likes to hear |
| NEXT | What one at the head of a line likes to hear |
| AADMI | ___ Nights: stories everyone likes to hear ? (7) |
| SURPRISES | Revelations gentleman really likes to hear |
| FLIPFLOP | A soggy mess of food; a blundering use of a word; a person, such as a character in Joseph Andrews, guilty of said malapropism; an alternative name for a rubber thong; or, twaddle (8) |
| FLOURISH | From a word for a bloom, an ornamental curve; a grandiose passage of music or words; a mass of blossom on a tree; or, a fanfare (8) |
| PROLOGUE | Meaning "before word", a prefatory speech or section as an introduction to a play, poem or novel; or, a time trial before a stage race in road cycling (8) |
| ECHO | A code word; a reflected sound; quiet repetition of a musical phrase; an electronic reverb effect in a recording; or, a memory evoked (4) |
| MOTTO | From the Latin for "murmur" and the Italian for "word", a slogan such as that encapsulating a family's beliefs on their coat of arms; a quotation prefacing a book or chapter; or, a joke, riddle or scr |
| CALLUS | A foot problem? We'd like to hear from you (6) |
| POSTIL | From "after those words", a marginal note, as in a Bible; a series of these, as a commentary; a homily; or, a book of homilies/sermons (6) |
| AHAS | Teachers like to hear them |
