| Leather strip of a whip |
THONG |
| Like a house fit for royalty |
PALATIAL |
| Local way of speaking |
ACCENT |
| Long speech of angry criticism |
TIRADE |
| Made a sudden surprise attack on |
RAIDED |
| Marinated meat cooked on skewers |
KEBABS |
| Nothing more than |
MERELY |
| Official residences of ambassadors |
EMBASSIES |
| Optical illusion, in desert perhaps |
MIRAGE |
| Orbiting heavenly body |
PLANET |
| Paths of the planets |
ORBITS |
| Plunged something into water or extinguished a fire |
DOUSED |
| Sample the flavour |
TASTE |
| Second book of the Old Testament |
EXODUS |
| Small S American monkey |
MARMOSET |
| Upper garments |
SHIRTS |
| Wild mountain goats with backward-curving horns |
IBEXES |
| Young folk |
CHILDREN |