| DETERMINERS | Words such as 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this' and 'each', used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate which thing(s) one is referring to (11) |
| ARTICLES | Words such as a bizarre realist pens in chapter (8) |
| INCH | Give some this and they take a mile |
| PRUNE | Trim, as a the tree |
| HEARSAYEVIDENCE | Never say die. Each used to gossip (7,8) |
| DECLENSION | Noun group in Latin, eg (10) |
| AGE | For some this is just a number |
| SEGNO | Sign used at the beginning of a repeat, in music |
| SPOOL | Emoji used at the beginning of a thread |
| OAVES | Idiots' heads not used at the beginning (5) |
| ANAPHORA | Use of a word such as a pronoun to refer back to a preceding word without repeating it (8) |
| NINETYDEGREES | Temperature on a hot day, or a hint to the starred clues' answers and each black square arrangement in the grid |
| GREENMANGO | Unripened flesh of the tropical tree Mangifera indica, used in India, Malaysia and Thailand to add a tart flavour to vegetable dishes (5,5) |
| BASE | Form of a noun, pronoun or adjective that indicates its semantic relation to surrounding words ( 4) |
| ONOMATOPOESIS | The use of words such as buzz, cuckoo and hiss |
| ACRONYM | A word formed from the initial letters of other words, such as Unesco (7) |
| MODALVERB | Type of part of speech using words such as can/could, may/might, etc (5,4) |
| REDUPLICATION | Combination of two similar words, such as answers to asterisked clues (13) |
| UMLAUT | Mark used in German words such as "fünf" and "zwölf" |
| PREPOSITIONS | Words such as on, in and to (12) |
