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Answer for the clue "Left speechless ", 10 letters:
dumbstruck

Word definitions for dumbstruck in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. so shocked as to be unable to speak

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from dumb + past participle of strike (v.).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Millions of Americans were dumbstruck by the news of the bombing.

Usage examples of dumbstruck.

Away from the ward she knew nothing about him, nor was she curious, and if he was to have called her Clotilde instead of Sister Collins she would have been dumbstruck.

Instead, what happened was there was an encounter with what can only be described as an elf hive, a colony of self-transforming, hyperdimensional machine creatures that came bounding forward with joyful squeaks to dribble themselves like self-transforming jeweled basketballs on the floor in front of me, and I was dumbstruck with amazement.

Dumbstruck, the party saw squads of squash, platoons of potatoes, companies of kumquats, battalions of beets, and regiments of radishes, all tramping to a martial air played by a fifty-piece rutabaga marching band.

Triv and Pri’ak were both reporting strange tastes and smells…and still, Prees was dumbstruck, could only stare at the planet below, and at the stars all around.

He stares at her, dumbstruck, as she placidly unwraps a sandwich and takes a bite.