| SCRAPS | 'They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the ___' (Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost (1595) |
| NAOMIWATTS | Actress who held a second wedding ceremony with Billy Crudup on Saturday; the first one had been at a courthouse in New York City a year ago |
| UGRIAN | Of languages and people including Magyars, Ostyaks and Voguls (6) |
| ARAFAT | Leader found in a great feast, oddly |
| AFRICA | Which continent has a third of the world's languages and less than a fifth of the world's population? (6) |
| SENTENCE | In a law court, the punishment a person receives after they have been found guilty of a crime (8) |
| FROMSCRATCH | How you know where the fleas have been at the start (4,7) |
| TINDALE | Who, in 1940, coming from extensive research and field work, published a map of Australia (which now bears his name) showing the diversity of Aboriginal languages and nation groups? (7) |
| MOSLEY | Founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932, having been, at various times, a Conservative, Independent and Labour MP (6) |
| TONGUE | Related to "lingua", the source of language and lingo, the fleshy glossa in the mouth for articulating speech (6) |
| HIGHTEA | Afternoon refreshment for those who have been at the pot? (4,3) |
| TREESTUMP | What's left after the fellers have been at work (4-5) |
| GLAZIER | One must have been at work before window-cleaner can come round (7) |
| POET | 'The lunatic, the lover, and the ___' (Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream) (4) |
| FLOCK | 'I am a tainted wether of the ___' (Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (1596-8) |
| MISSINGPERSONSBUREAU | Seekers of the lost, strayed and stolen |
| AGAP | "If he had been forgotten, it had been as ___ in our great feast": Lady Macbeth |
| PERIPHRASIS | Extended use of language and excessive and immoderate verbosity or circumlocution perhaps is misjudged when involved with separate touches of irony and rodomontade |
| LOOTERS | They've stolen the goods - look, the store has been ruined (7) |
| FINNOUGRIC | Of a group of north-west European languages and peoples (5-5) |
