| PARAPHRASED | Expressed in one's own words when interpreted |
| NATIVELANGUAGE | One's own words originally expressed? (6,8) |
| INSERTKEY | Backspace neighbor for many PC users ... or, when interpreted as a command, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| INITIATE | Start by telling us, in your own words, why you were in the restaurant? |
| AROMA | Peculiar flavour of a capital city in its own words (5) |
| DELACROIX | Painter of the cross, in his own words (9) |
| EASTENDER | In his own words man deceives nurse? |
| NARROWSDOWN | Reduces possibilities when own words ran out (7,4) |
| HINDUSTANI | Indian thus translated -- in his own words? (10) |
| PERON | "Evita: In My Own Words" author |
| TERESA | "In My Own Words" missionary |
| MEAIES | Pirate's crew, in the pirate's own words |
| PIE | In which the printer can eat his own words? (3) |
| UNEDITED | In the writer's own words completely - organisation cleaned up the galley (8) |
| PAINTAPICTURE | Tell us in your own words what the artist has to do (5,1,7) |
| MISINTERPRET | Get the wrong idea about road to school? Explain that in your own words! (12) |
| VENN | Mathematician John ____'s best-known idea was, in his own words, "representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive circles" |
| RODEO | In his own words, Aaron Copland’s second “cowboy ballet” |
| USIN | "Tell ___ your own words..." |
| UNQUOTE | Indicator that you're back to your own words |
