| Kind of field changed to a vital grain |
GRAVITATIONAL |
| Legislative body reduced fare |
DIET |
| Menial poorly, with temperature -- contracted illness |
AILMENT |
| Namely, object about note that's extremely critical |
SCATHING |
| Outside hospital, unattached piece of roof |
SHINGLE |
| Pay attention to four-letter word included by the editor |
HEED |
| Second in class, deserving scholarship |
LEARNING |
| Sense of taste revealed as friend dined |
PALATE |
| Take it from chum -- our lesson's not funny |
HUMOURLESS |
| The speaker had briefly spoken and made observations |
EYED |
| Thus illuminated sign for people living alone |
SOLITARIES |
| Title that could make me a lord |
EARLDOM |
| Unusually vain, yet showing lack of sophistication |
NAIVETY |
| Would-be moneymaker having chest covered with gold |
INVESTOR |