| PORTMANTEAU | A term invented by Lewis Carroll for words such as brunch, chortle or smog |
| PERSONALPRONOUN | Grammar term for words such as 'I' or 'he' (8,7) |
| LAUGH | An act of cachinnation, aka a cackle, chortle or crow; or, a card or comic, likely to evoke such a chuckle (5) |
| WORDLADDER | Puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| SNARK | Imaginary animal invented by Lewis Carroll gives its name to quests of dreamers? (5) |
| CHORTLE | Kind of laugh (portmanteau word invented by Lewis Carroll) (7) |
| GALUMPH | Portmanteau verb invented by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | Poetic device shown by words such as buzz, moo or miaow (12) |
| BANDERSNATCH | Monster invented by Lewis Carroll (12) |
| 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) |
| ACRONYM | A word formed from the initial letters of other words, such as Unesco (7) |
| UMLAUT | Mark placed over a vowel in words such as 'uber' in German |
| ARTICLES | Words such as a bizarre realist pens in chapter (8) |
| EPONYMS | Words such as Cardigan, Diesel, Fahrenheit and Sandwich for example (7) |
| PSEUDONYM | Send up my old battered Lewis Carroll, for one |
| ALIAS | Lewis Carroll, for one |
| PENNAME | *Lewis Carroll, for one |
| MODALVERB | Type of part of speech using words such as can/could, may/might, etc (5,4) |
| MENSWEAR | Grown-up lads use four-letter words, such as vest, suit, and ties! (8) |
| SYNONYMS | Church council finishing early with rousing hymns lacking hard words such as faith, religion and belief (8) |
