| Maker-seller of spectacles |
OPTICIAN |
| Moist and warm |
HUMID |
| Obscurity or melancholy |
GLOOM |
| Organs that produce secretions |
GLANDS |
| Part in a play |
ROLE |
| Past pupils |
ALUMNI |
| Piece placed on top of cricket stumps |
BAIL |
| Reduction in price for conduits |
DISCOUNT |
| Shasy or questionable, from France |
LOUCHE |
| Spiky desert plant |
CACTUS |
| Surrounding or encircling, say temperature |
AMBIENT |
| Sweet-sounding melodious |
DULCET |
| Sweetness of smell |
FRAGRANCE |
| Took it easy, loosened up |
RELAXED |
| Underworld river ferried by Charon |
STYX |
| Uselessly, without success |
INVAIN |
| Wild guess or venture - using rifle? |
LONGSHOT |
| ` `..... bread is soon forgotten' ' |
EATEN |
