| ALLEY | Kirstie, actress |
| BALLOON | speech bubble |
| BORDER | hem, fringe |
| BOUGH | firm branch of a tree |
| COAST | Ivory or Pacific |
| DARE | challenge to prove courage |
| DAY | Groundhog ... (film) |
| DAYAN | Moshe, Israeli politician |
| DIRT | earth |
| DISCO | musical genre |
| DISEASE | infectious or mental |
| ENTITY | thing, stuff |
| EPOXY | family of polymer |
| FILTER | fuel or high-pass |
| KOBE | Bryant, basketball player |
| KOREAN | one of Asians |
| LITTER | flock, swarm |
| MAGIC | sorcery |
| MARCEL | Proust, writer |
| NEGLECT | passive form of abuse |
| ORDER | method, regularity |
| ROME | capital of Italy |
| SHANK | shin |
| SIEGE | military blockade |
| SPEARS | Britney, singer |
| STRIFE | contention |
| TETANUS | bacterial disease |
| TOPIC | question, inquiry |
| WAVE | tidal or heat |
| WORRY | anxiety, misgiving |