| John Philip —, march composer |
SOUSA |
| Keyboard instrument |
HARMONIUM |
| Larva of a frog or toad |
TADPOLE |
| Low-ranking servant |
SKIVVY |
| Make more agreeable or acceptable |
SWEETEN |
| Medicinal drugs (archaic) |
PHYSIC |
| Mischievous sprite |
GREMLIN |
| Not able to be understood |
INCOMPREHENSIBLE |
| Not expected |
UNANTICIPATED |
| Overseas reporter |
foreign correspondent |
| Point or degree in a scale |
NOTCH |
| Polite form of address for a woman |
MADAM |
| Possible fate of the universe |
heat death |
| Pulsate |
THROB |
| Rejection; turning-down |
REFUSAL |
| Relating to religious belief |
SPIRITUAL |
| Romantic adorer |
ADMIRER |
| Rude and aggressive youth |
YOBBO |
| Sight of unusual beauty |
VISION |
| Small booklet |
PAMPHLET |
| Small fastener |
press stud |
| Something trifling and negligible |
BAGATELLE |
| Spinning toy |
GYROSCOPE |
| The insulting of a sovereign |
lese-majesty |
| Town in Hampshire |
ANDOVER |
| Unprotected from the weather |
EXPOSED |
| Utterly wicked |
HEINOUS |
| Virgin Mary |
MADONNA |
| Wide item of neckwear |
kipper tie |
| With no foundation in fact |
BASELESS |
| Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey |
lake poets |