| ACTION | representing, performing |
| BOYLE | Robert, chemist |
| BREAST | chest |
| BUTLER | Rhett, actor |
| CALGARY | ... Flames, NHL team |
| CHASM | abyss, gap |
| CHEKHOV | Anton, Russian writer |
| COUP | putch |
| DEPTH | abyss, nadir |
| DISEASE | tuberculosis |
| FRETSAW | jigsaw |
| FREYJA | Nordic goddess |
| GANGS | ... of New York (Scorsese) |
| GIFT | flair, talent |
| HESTON | Charlton, actor |
| JENSON | Button, F1 driver |
| KING | ... Lear (Shakespeare) |
| LESSON | lear |
| MOTION | question, doubt |
| PAIN | headache |
| RABBLE | plebs |
| RIGHT | starboard |
| RIHANNA | famous female singer |
| ROW | succession, line |
| SPASM | seizure, throe |
| SPRITE | goblin, fey |
| TANGO | type of dance |
| WALT | Whitman, writer |
| WIRE | barbed or conducting |
| ZHUKOV | Georgy, Soviet general |