| AINTIAWOMAN | Sojourner Truth speech in which she said "You need not be afraid to give us our rights" |
| VENTURE | Not be afraid to risk this capital? (7) |
| URDU | Give us our due, it's partly the language (4) |
| ALANTURING | Call centre worker said you need to get dialling code expert |
| EFFOFF | 4 thus gives us our instruction to leave (3,3) |
| GENE | Alternative greenie gives us our characteristics (4) |
| AID | Half afraid to give a hand |
| AREP | "She said 'You're only 16, you don't have ___ yet'" ("Parents Just Don't Understand" line) |
| DOROTHYPARKER | She said "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think" |
| MATURE | 'Grow up pal', she said, 'you are in' (6) |
| PARDONMYFRENCH | Words you need not say before the starts of 16-, 22-, 83- and 48-Across |
| AINTI | "___ a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth speech) |
| AINT | "___ I a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth speech) |
| WOMAN | "Ain't I a ___?" (Sojourner Truth speech) |
| ENRICH | "There are things to confess that ___ the world, and things that need not be said:" Joni Mitchell (6) |
| DOUBLEENTENDRE | Need not be rude, somehow, penning line: it may be taken as indecent |
| BLACKBOX | British don’t have to fight — that need not be understood |
| LALA | 2004 Ashlee Simpson hit in which she expresses her desire to sing a song she doesn't know the lyrics |
| ASADSONG | The Beatles suggested Jude not be afraid but take this and make it better (1,3,4) |
| ONCREDIT | Willing to believe that payment need not be made yet |
