| BUFF | fan, devotee |
| CANE | sugar or rattan |
| DECREE | edict or law |
| DEED | truth, derring-do |
| ENGINE | machine |
| ESQUIRE | armiger, page |
| FOAM | fizz, froth |
| GREG | LeMond, cyclist |
| GROCERY | packaged goods |
| HOLIDAY | feast, symposium |
| HOPKINS | Anthony, actor |
| HUFF | grunt or sigh |
| ISCHIAS | sciatica |
| JARGON | parlance |
| JONES | Catherine Zeta-... |
| MAT | tatami |
| NAVEL | umbilicus, omphalos |
| NEPTUNE | one of planets |
| NEWSBOY | paperboy |
| NIACIN | vitamine B₃ |
| OTTOMAN | piece of furniture |
| ROCK | claystone or gabbro |
| SKINK | type of lizard |
| SODA | baking or caustic |
| STANCE | attitude |
| STUDIO | workplace |
| TONGA | its capital is Nukuʻalofa |
| TWERP | git |
| VAGRANT | wanderer |
| VESICA | bladder |