| SYNCOPE | Omission of sounds or letters from within a word, as in the common pronunciations of Wednesday, library etc. (7) |
| METATHESIS | Transposition of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence (10) |
| ELISION | The omission of sounds, syllables or words in speech (eg fish 'n' chips) (7) |
| AIRMAIL | Letters from within Cairo and Lima, possibly |
| PANTOMIME | Performance without words, as in the game of charades |
| APHESIS | Linguistic term for the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word, as in round from around (7) |
| ELISIONS | Omissions of sounds between words |
| HIATUS | Break between two adjacent vowels in the pronunciation of a word, as in cooperate (6) |
| GRUNT | A pig or porker's low guttural groan, oink, snort or squeal, thus found within a word meaning grumblingly fed up or snortingly displeased (5) |
| DAUDET | Alphonse -; author of a collection of bucolic tales based on Provencal life titled Lettres de mon moulin, or Letters from My Windmill (6) |
| EPENTHESIS | The insertion of a sound within a word (10) |
| OMEGA | Last letter or letters from some garage |
| AVIATOR | Who may take characters (or letters) from Alberta via Toronto? |
| PARAGOGE | In grammar, the addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, as the st of amongst (8) |
| APOCOPE | Omission of the final sound or sounds of a word, as when credibility becomes cred or child becomes chile (7) |
| TMESIS | From "to cut", the interpolation of one word into the middle of another word, as in "abso-blooming-lutely" (6) |
| UNI | Related to "ace on dice", a Latin word or prefix denoting "one", thus found in the common names of a monocycle and a monoceros |
| SLIP | Word, found in the common name of a paigle, for an accidental, blundering or clumsy trip or fall (4) |
| PHONETICS | A branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the sounds or pronunciation of human speech (9) |
| PUBLISH | Word meaning make known, share the news or spread the word, as in an article, book, newspaper etc (7) |
