The Clue
Private lines (6 letter answer)
The Answer
ASIDES
Tags
Notes
The answer ASIDES is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
Related Clues
Digressions
Comments to the audience
Dramatic devices
Dramatists' devices
Muttered comments
Parenthetical comments
Parenthetical lines
Parenthetical remarks
Parenthetical text
Playwrights' ploys
Muttered commentary
Private comments
Remarks to the audience
Single halves
Stage digressions
Stage lines
Stage remarks
Stage whispers
Whispered words
Whispers, maybe
Actors' lines, at times
Actors' remarks to audience
Many of Hamlet's lines
Off-mike remarks
Parts of some rambles
Some stage lines
Stage comments to the audience
Thespians' words with the audience
They go in parentheses
Actors' lines to no one in particular
Actor's sotto-voce remarks
They might be in parentheses
Definition
ASIDE as a noun:
1. a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
2. (digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis) = a message that departs from the main subject