| American ground squirrel |
GOPHER |
| An intolerant, prejudiced person |
BIGOT |
| Buildings rented for living in, as in city slums |
TENEMENTS |
| Crush with heavy foot, like postman |
STAMPON |
| Den for wild animal |
LAIR |
| Disorderly crowd of people |
RABBLE |
| Duck with soft down |
EIDER |
| Fever, a fit of shivering |
AGUE |
| He wrote the book or play |
AUTHOR |
| Kind of peach with thin skin and no down |
NECTARINE |
| Logic and rationality |
REASON |
| Make us pliable so as to be convincing |
PLAUSIBLE |
| Makes move to divert attention as in fencing |
FEINTS |
| Member of a gang of robbers |
BANDIT |
| More noisy or bright |
LOUDER |
| Most indolent or inactive |
IDLEST |
| Mozart opera 'The Marriage of . . . . . .' |
FIGARO |
| Person who nit-picks |
QUIBBLER |
