| LYRICIST | Writer of words, as opposed to music (8) |
| BAVARIAN | German opposed to music that's sung in bar |
| ELLIPSIS | Omission of words as priest's sealing lips |
| DINGDONG | Violent war of words as mostly gloomy academic leaving finally (4,4) |
| PARAGOGE | In grammar, the addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, as the st of amongst (8) |
| INMYBOOK | How to describe writer's published words as far as I'm concerned? |
| TELLTALE | It gives you words as well as picture (8) |
| ASSAULTS | One engaged in cruel words, as sufficing for fashionable hits (8) |
| VERBATIM | In exactly the same words as were used originally (8) |
| APOCOPE | (GKN) Omission of sounds or letters from the ends of words, as when 'doctor' becomes 'doc' or 'cup of' becomes 'cuppa' (7) |
| PHRASE | Group of words as part of a sentence (6) |
| STEPDOWN | Eat your words as you escape via the ladder? (4,4) |
| BACKDOWN | Eat your words as you escape via the ladder? (4,4) |
| DIATRIBE | Angry words as aid returned by large family? |
| TAUTOLOGY | Term, from "same word, repeating what has been said", for redundant repetition of words, as in "free gift", "lifeless and dead", "I saw it with my own eyes" or "unplanned surprise" (9) |
| LIBRETTIST | Writer of words bitter, wrongly spelled in list |
| ANON | Article concerning author of words of "Away in a Manger"? (4) |
| SCRIPTWRITER | Author of words spoken by actors, in play, film etc (12) |
| LYRICISTS | Writers of words for songs |
| SHORTSENTENCE | What the judge is capable of handing down, in as few words as possible, to low life? (5,8) |
