| One is as uncommunicative as a mollusc |
CLAM |
| Pick |
SELECT |
| Principal fictional baddie |
VILLAIN |
| Procedure regularly followed |
ROUTINE |
| Professional reviewers of the arts |
CRITICS |
| Professional who stands in for another |
LOCUM |
| Reject bluntly |
REBUFF |
| Salad leaves |
LETTUCE |
| Seed of fruit |
PIP |
| Shore bird with long pointed wings |
PLOVER |
| Ski race down a winding course |
SLALOM |
| Small metal spike |
NAIL |
| Spectres |
GHOSTS |
| Strengthen |
TOUGHEN |
| Supplement to a will |
CODICIL |
| The Desert Fox of WWII |
ROMMEL |
| Therefore |
THUS |
| Toast in your eye |
MUD |
| Tried to gain favour by flattering |
FAWNED |
| Walk with an uneven step |
LIMP |
| Wrote one's name on |
SIGNED |
