| ACTION | representing, performing |
| AIM | proclivity, effort |
| ASH | cremains |
| BACKUP | reserve or substitute |
| BIGOTRY | narrow-mindedness |
| BRAND | Samsung or Adidas |
| BULLET | bow - arrow, pistol - ? |
| DOUBT | Uncertainty, disbelief |
| EMPEROR | Claudius or Commodus |
| FUGUE | musical form |
| GOBLIN | buggard, bog |
| GROTTO | small cave |
| HERB | Basil or marjoram |
| HOLM | Ian, actor |
| JACKIE | Stewart, F1 driver |
| KNIFE | dagger |
| LAUDA | Niki, F1 driver |
| MASS | legion, sea |
| MEANING | import, significance |
| MEDINA | Saudi Arabian city |
| PATTERN | last, exemplar |
| POPPET | beautiful child |
| RYAN | Gosling, actor |
| SHALLOT | among vegetables |
| SHREW | European mammal |
| STORE | grocery or retail |
| WAY | passage, channel |
| WOOD | forest |
| WORRY | trepidation |
| WYND | haystack |