| DOUBLETALK | In which there's not a single word of sense? (6,4) |
| KINGS | Rulers engagements attract not a single word of disapproval (5) |
| LESSON | Period in which there's not as much happening (6) |
| DUCKPOND | On which there's not a score of waterfowl? (4,4) |
| CLEVER | "I am so ___ that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying" (Oscar Wilde quote |
| LEXEME | Unit of lexical meaning, basically a set of forms taken by a single word (6) |
| MARIA | Name that's "all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word," on Broadway |
| LIPREAD | Not hear a single word? |
| NOONE | Midday on the 4th of June and there's not a single person (2,3) |
| WIVES | There's not a single woman amongst them (5) |
| OED | Lexicon that had no single word of the year for 2020 (Abbr.) |
| MARANATHA | Two Aramaic words as a single word in 1 Corinthians, meaning "O Lord, come" or "Our Lord has come" |
| IDEOGRAM | Picture that paints a single word, perhaps (8) |
| SYLLABLE | Sly label change for a single word segment (8) |
| TEQUILA | 1958 instrumental classic by the Champs (instrumental, that is, except for a single word spoken thro |
| ORPHAN | Single word on the last line of a paragraph, say |
| PUREFICTION | A novel that is shouldn't corrupt, though there's not a word of truth in it! (4,7) |
| VINCENT | With which single word did van Gogh sign his paintings (7) |
| EMENDATION | The single-word anagram of DENOMINATE |
| CELL | There's not a lot of juice in one (4) |
