Related Clues:

• These, when mixed, harm poets
• Descriptive language, figures of speech
• Speakers
• Turns of phrase Hitch used after tense opening to shoot
• "Crack a joke" and "cut corners," e.g
• "Eat crow" and "talk turkey"
• Pictures in the mind
• Challenges for language learners
• Offerers of addresses
• 'Happy as a clam' and 'blind as a bat'
• Mental pictures afflicted a grim year. Not half!
• Literary skill
• Blue-collar and pink-slip
• Recurrent themes
• They're not literal