| ACHE | pang |
| ACID | gastric or citric |
| AISLE | architectural element |
| ASUS | laptop manufacturer |
| BEER | alcoholic drink |
| BEGGAR | mendicant, panhandler |
| BOOTH | stall, stand |
| COOPER | Alice, singer |
| COVEN | cabal |
| DOLLY | Parton, singer |
| ESCAPE | runaway |
| FEZ | tarboosh, checheya |
| FYODOR | Dostoyevsky, Russian writer |
| KINDRED | folk, people |
| LANDING | corridor |
| MALI | country in Africa |
| MERCY | compassion, sorrow |
| MODE | accident, hazard |
| NEEDLE | dragonfly, adderbolt |
| OFFENCE | sin |
| PIRATE | raider, freebooter |
| PUNCH | hit or strike with one's fist |
| SHAME | disgrace |
| SPLIT | crack or longitudinal fissure |
| STEEL | mine - coal, ironworks - ? |
| STEWARD | provost, bailiff |
| THALES | of Miletus, mathematician |
| THOMAS | Jefferson, US president |
| TWINKLE | blink |
| VESTRY | part of a church |