| STUTTERS | Good person shortly speaks but expresses with difficulty |
| AMIABLE | Friendly but expresses doubts about personal competence (7) |
| ARTICULATES | Expresses with joins? (11) |
| NOTROUSERS | Everyone speaks, but they aren't agitators, it's just empty boasts (3,4,3,2,8) |
| ALLTALKAND | Everyone speaks, but they aren't agitators, it's just empty boasts (3,4,3,2,8) |
| HULA | Incredibly large person shortly having a dance |
| AMBIGUOUS | A timid person shortly crossing large university is confused (9) |
| BOO | Ill-mannered person shortly gives shout of contempt (3) |
| CAREFREE | A whistleblower blocking nasty person shortly without worry? (8) |
| VET | Military person, shortly |
| LATIN | Language we don't speak, but the French can |
| STUTTER | Saint has to speak but has a speech defect (7) |
| POSTPAID | Cent so to speak but no money required (4,4) |
| DRIEDUP | Didn't speak but took part in kitchen sink drama? (5,2) |
| UTTER | Speak but mutter less! (5) |
| MUTTER | Frenchman to speak, but indistinctly (6) |
| LIQUOR | Descriptive of a tongue so to speak, but it is a drink (6) |
| HESSOSHY | 1980 hit with the line "I longed to speak but did not dare" |
| SMATTER | Speak, but not fluently |
| ORATE | Speak, but not given points (5) |
