| Legal wrong |
TORT |
| Lumberjack's tool |
AXE |
| Measly |
MERE |
| Mosquito attack |
BITE |
| Muscle soreness |
ACHE |
| Non-studio film, for short |
INDIE |
| Not yet rented |
UNLET |
| Observed attending |
SEENAT |
| Oddly frightening |
EERIE |
| Perform a role |
ACT |
| Period in history |
ERA |
| Plant stalk |
STEM |
| Port of the Bahamas |
NASSAU |
| Praise highly |
EXALT |
| Pressed the doorbell |
RANG |
| Region like the Sahara |
DESERT |
| Restrained, as in shackles |
FETTERED |
| Ruby or diamond |
GEM |
| Russian refusal |
NYET |
| Sailor's greeting |
AHOY |
| Savings protection org |
FDIC |
| Seating for four at a diner |
BOOTH |
| Serious play |
DRAMA |
| Short memo |
NOTE |
| Sight or smell |
SENSE |
| Spirited horse |
STEED |
| Steakhouse orders |
TBONES |
| Stun gun |
TASER |
| Suffix for young or prank |
STER |
| Sum calculated |
TOTAL |
| Takes a risk |
DARES |
| The Show Me State |
MISSOURI |
| The __ Ranger (Western hero) |
LONE |
| Tip of a sock |
TOE |
| Treads heavily |
STOMPS |
| Unpleasant smell |
ODOR |
| Voicemail signal |
TONE |
| Was defeated |
LOST |
| Whoop __ (celebrate) |
ITUP |
