| ABSENCE | inexistence |
| ABU | ... Dhabi, capital in Asia |
| AIR | atmosphere |
| BASIL | culinary herb |
| CAMUS | Albert, French writer |
| CERES | Roman goddess |
| CHARLES | Baudelaire, writer |
| COG | tooth on a gear |
| DALTON | Timothy, actor |
| DELL | laptop manufacturer |
| DONNA | mistress, lady |
| ENMITY | hostility, hatred |
| ESQUIRE | armiger, page |
| FINE | type of punishment |
| FUGUE | form of classical music |
| GAUCHO | cowboy, drover |
| HAND | bunch of fives |
| HARP | string instrument |
| HASSOCK | ottoman, footstool |
| HIDE | The skin of an animal |
| LICENCE | for driving or hunting |
| MILK | goats' or soya |
| NEED | hunger |
| PASCAL | Blaise, mathematician |
| REFUGE | haven |
| SOIL | dirt, ground |
| THOMAS | Jefferson, US president |
| TORI | Amos, singer |
| TROUBLE | plague, embarrassment |
| VLTAVA | large river in Europe |