| MALAPROPISM | Funny use of a word may land prompt picket smasher, losing increasing characters in the end (11) |
| AITCH | A bit much, initially losing increasing numbers of letters that 'Arry's dropped |
| AMEN | Finally a word may be got from a name (4) |
| CATCH | Such a word may be used as a slogan (5) |
| ACRONYM | So to speak, say, how such a word may be described (7) |
| HOMONYM | So to speak, say, how such a word may be described (7) |
| SATIS | Indian widows please, but two characters in the end turned off! (5) |
| RAZZ | Argentina characters in the end to get an American rebuke |
| ADAMANTINE | Resolute characters, in the end, are impregnable (10) |
| LEGALACTION | The deed is lawful but may land one in court (5,6) |
| FLIPFLOP | A soggy mess of food; a blundering use of a word; a person, such as a character in Joseph Andrews, guilty of said malapropism; an alternative name for a rubber thong; or, twaddle (8) |
| ACCELERATOR | An atom-smasher, catalyst, cyclotron, muscle, synchrotron, throttle or other device, substance or thing for increasing speed (11) |
| QUARKOFMILK | Particle from placing a dairy product in an atom smasher |
| ANAPHORA | Use of a word such as a pronoun to refer back to a preceding word without repeating it (8) |
| ATOMSMATTER | Atom smasher |
| SYNCHROTRON | Atom smasher |
| HIT | A blockbuster film or a smasher of a song; a visit to a website; or, a strike of a real or proverbial nail-head (3) |
| IRONY | The mildly sarcastic use of a word to imply its literal meaning (5) |
| PUN | What is the humorous use of a word that suggests two or more interpretations? (3) |
| PENNANTS | Operatic location lacking character in the end a making amends (8) |
