| Panache, flair |
ELAN |
| Prepared squid |
CALAMARI |
| Quarrel about petty points |
BICKER |
| Showing people to their seats |
USHERING |
| Sloping channels or slides |
CHUTES |
| Social pariah |
OUTCAST |
| Soothing cream |
OINTMENT |
| Spelt and whole wheat, for instance |
FLOURS |
| Spoken or written communication |
MESSAGE |
| Take one and sit |
SEAT |
| Takes delivery of |
RECEIVES |
| Think up, create |
INVENT |
| Totalitarian Russian leader |
STALIN |
| Tube with a cone-shaped opening |
FUNNEL |
| Units of electric current, in short |
AMPS |
| Warm bedding |
BLANKETS |