| Abdicate or disown |
RENOUNCE |
| Commercial or industrial enterprise |
BUSINESS |
| Conspires to do something illegal |
CONNIVES |
| Crucial stage or turning point |
CRISIS |
| Damaged irreparably |
RUINED |
| Deed or legal proceeding |
ACTION |
| Evident or seeming to be |
APPARENT |
| Extravagantly demonstrative, gushing |
EFFUSIVE |
| Feathery frondy plant |
FERN |
| Great seas |
OCEANS |
| Hitchcock's speciality |
SUSPENSE |
| Imperial land measurement |
ACRE |
| Internet page |
WEBSITE |
| Inventor of the phonograph |
EDISON |
| Knot-shaped cracker |
PRETZEL |
| Mass of coagulated blood |
CLOT |
