| ACCESS | way, trail |
| AMALGAM | alloy, conglomerate |
| BARACK | Obama, US president |
| BARGAIN | snip |
| BISCUIT | cookie |
| BOOK | Jungle ... (Kipling) |
| BREAK | recess, pause |
| CANNES | city in southern France |
| CRIME | delinquency |
| CRY | scream |
| DELAY | masterly inactivity |
| EGGHEAD | boffin |
| ELF | Legolas or Elrond |
| FOE | enemy, adversary |
| FUEL | diesel oil |
| HEYDAY | prime, flower |
| HOE | gardener's tool |
| HOST | legion, mass |
| KENYA | country with Nairobi |
| LEVEE | embankment, floodbank |
| MINE | salt or land |
| OWL | horned or tawny |
| PLACE | location |
| PLAGUE | pestilence, pest |
| RIM | skirt, edge |
| SHANIA | Twain, singer |
| SIDE | edge, page |
| SOFIA | capital of Bulgaria |
| STROKE | disaster, misfortune |
| WRINKLE | fold in the skin |