| GULLAH | Use this English dialect to deceive a husband? (6) |
| CODESWITCH | Shift from one dialect to another, depending on the social context |
| INDIA | Country bumpkin dialect to some extent (5) |
| FAULT | From "to deceive", a word for a lack or failing, such as a defect of character; an error; culpability; or, a fracture (5) |
| CONVINCE | To deceive a chap, you need to be believable (8) |
| PLAYDEAD | Try to deceive a bear, in a way |
| DEKE | Move intended to deceive a defensive player |
| CATCHTHEEYE | Be attractive enough to deceive a pupil? |
| MENDACITY | Lying people start to deceive a whole town |
| FEINT | Football and boxing: movement made in order to deceive a rival (5) |
| CONCUR | Agree to deceive a dirty dog! |
| GULL | Try to deceive a bird at sea |
| CONGA | Steps taken to deceive a heartless geisha (5) |
| CONTEMPLATE | Intend to deceive a model |
| FOOLHARDY | Rash enough to deceive a novelist (9) |
| BLUFF | Attempt to deceive a South Island town (5) |
| CLAY | Linked to English dialect for "sticky", word for a natural substance moulded and baked to make bricks, ceramics, cloam, pottery, tiles or other figuline articles; or, earth/mud generally (4) |
| TEWIT | Northern English dialect for one of a "deceit" of birds also called a green plover, lapwing or pyewipe (5) |
| SCOUSE | English dialect some Scots use? (6) |
| YAFFLE | English dialect name for a green woodpecker |