| ACTOR | player, performer |
| BEAR | grizzly |
| BEQUEST | legacy |
| CHEST | breast |
| COSBY | Bill, actor |
| CURSE | bane |
| DIDEROT | Denis, French writer |
| ERROR | slip, lapse |
| FIVE | one of digits |
| FLOW | tidal or turbulent |
| FUTURE | time which has yet to occur |
| HASTE | dispatch |
| HERMES | Greek god |
| HOUSE | White or royal |
| JAZZ | Utah ..., NBA team |
| KAREN | Blixen, writer |
| MACHINE | engine |
| MUSIC | melody |
| NIKE | brand of running shoes |
| OBJECT | purpose, aim |
| OMICRON | Greek letter |
| PITY | sympathy, compassion |
| PRINCE | title of nobility |
| SOIL | residual or alluvial |
| SPANDEX | elastic synthetic fiber |
| SQUAB | piper |
| SULTAN | Persia - shah, Turkey - ? |
| VAGRANT | outcast, beggar |
| VITRINE | showcase |
| VOID | vacancy |