| Long prison term |
LIFESENTENCE |
| Means of getting into correspondence |
LETTEROPENER |
| Not a first edition |
REPRINT |
| Proportionately |
PRORATA |
| Put on costume (anag) — showing disdain |
CONTEMPTUOUS |
| Religion is 'the ___ of the people' (Karl Marx) |
OPIUM |
| Reproductive organ in the human uterus |
PLACENTA |
| Reverse |
FLIP |
| Severe respiratory disease, first identified in 2003 |
SARS |
| Slow-healing sore |
ULCER |
| Strong effect |
IMPACT |
| Unthreatening |
HARMLESS |