deliberate affront or slight
| SNUB |
| Word | Clue |
|---|---|
| SLUR | insult or slight |
| STAR | Sun or Rigel |
| TIRE | radial or spare |
| WIRE | barbed or chicken |
| AGENT | insurance or travel |
| BRAND | Audi or Porsche |
| COURT | appellate or supreme |
| DANCE | tango or flamenco |
| FLUID | water or petroleum |
| MOTOR | diesel or stepping |
| ORDER | fungus or stop-loss |
| PARTY | Republican or Conservative |
| POWER | solar or of will |
| RIVER | Neva or Mekong |
| INSULT | affront, slight |
| SCORCH | slight or surface burn |
| AFFRONT | insult, slight |
| INKLING | slight suspicion or hint |
| OFFENSE | affront |
| PEJORATIVE | insult, affront |
| THUNK | delayed computation |
| WEAKNESS | delicacy, frailness |