Crossword Clues Dictionary
| ACTION | putting on the boards |
| ACUMEN | intelligence |
| ADULT | fully grown human or animal |
| AFFLECK | Ben, actor |
| AGONY | grief, sorrow |
| AIM | target, attempt |
| BADGER | European mammal |
| BAIRN | child or baby |
| BEAT | rhythm |
| BELUCCI | Monica, actress |
| BENIN | country with Porto-Novo |
| BEZOAR | hairball |
| BIRD | stork or kiwi |
| BISHKEK | capital of Kyrgyzstan |
| BLOWOUT | burst, detonation |
| BOLT | Usain, sprinter |
| BOOK | soft-cover or cookery |
| BRIE | French cheese |
| BRO | bull, dude |
| BULWARK | bastion |
| CANAL | birth or auditory |
| CHARLES | de Gaulle, French politician |
| CHICKEN | domesticated animal |
| CORD | cable |
| CURVE | blind or learning |
| DANCE | break or ritual |
| DELL | laptop manufacturer |
| DESERT | Mojave or Gobi |
| DREGS | dross, lees |
| ENERGY | kinetic or solar |
| FADING | decay, wasting |
| FLAW | defect, red |
| FLORIDA | US state |
| FLUID | liquid |
| FRINGE | forelock |
| GENTRY | condition |
| GODDESS | female deity |
| GODDESS | minerva or vesta (mythology) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai, Russian writer |
| HEAD | leader, chief |
| HECKLER | verbal harasser |
| JESSE | Owens, sprinter |
| JOINT | hip or elbow |
| KERBER | Angelique, tennis player |
| KHARKIV | city in Ukraine |
| KID | fawn |
| KIRK | church |
| KITTY | pot |
| LACKEY | footman, servant |
| LILLE | city in northern France |
| LITTER | bedding |
| MANAGUA | capital of Nicaragua |
| MASTER | maestro |
| MELEE | Hand-to-hand combat, brawl |
| MIND | head, brain |
| NAMIBIA | country in Africa |
| OFFENSE | affront |
| OPERA | Phantom of the ... (Leroux) |
| ORIGIN | root, basis |
| OUTLAY | expense, disbursement |
| PANG | gripe, twinge |
| PEGASUS | northern constellation |
| PIQUE | resentment, huff |
| POKE | prod, jab, or punch |
| POPPET | doll |
| PRAISE | compliment |
| PREMISE | assumption |
| PUDDING | blood sausage |
| ROSE | The Name of the ... (U. Eco) |
| ROSSINI | Gioacchino, composer |
| SHANIA | Twain, singer |
| SHIVA | Hindu god, basis of Shaivism |
| SIDE | edge, page |
| SIMIAN | ape, anthropoid |
| SKIT | short comic performance |
| SOJOURN | stay |
| SPICE | salt or coriander |
| SQUEEZE | close or tight fit |
| STEFANI | Gwen, singer |
| TENDER | dinghy |
| TERM | word, locution |
| TSUNAMI | wave² |
| VAGRANT | wanderer |
| VAMPIRE | cadaver sanguine |
| VERGE | arbor, mace |
| WAG | wave, stroke |
| WHIP | flail, lash |
| WRECKER | vandal, breaker |
| WRONG | sin, unfairness |
| YEN | JPY |