| Horror-film villain |
SLASHER |
| Inferior |
LOWER |
| Laundry problem |
STAIN |
| Let out |
FREED |
| Make amends |
ATONE |
| Might |
POWER |
| Narrow inlet |
RIA |
| Nod, e.g. |
ASSENT |
| Obeyed |
HEEDED |
| One of the black keys |
BFLAT |
| Pays to play |
ANTES |
| Perfect rating |
TEN |
| Poet Hughes |
TED |
| Rum drink |
MAITAI |
| Scottish river |
DEE |
| Scrooge cry |
BAH |
| Singer Phil |
OCHS |
| Smoothes, in a way |
SANDS |
| Staff marking |
NOTE |
| Stephen of 'The Crying Game' |
REA |
| Studio |
ATELIER |
| Tom Petty song |
IWONTBACKDOWN |
| Tom Petty song |
CHANGEOFHEART |
| Uses a foil |
FENCES |
| Villains' expressions |
SNEERS |
