| A lace passes through it |
EYELET |
| A social gathering in the evening |
SOIREE |
| A tree for Adler |
ALDER |
| Assert with long looks |
STARES |
| Attentive in hesitant manner |
TENTATIVE |
| Become smaller or fewer |
DECREASE |
| Break into little pieces |
SMASH |
| Candle fat |
TALLOW |
| Declare or accuse without proof |
ALLEGE |
| Discards, throws overboard |
JETTISONS |
| Dracula is one |
VAMPIRE |
| Elegantly thin |
SLIM |
| Famous Tower in Paris |
EIFFEL |
| Humiliating, lowering in respect |
DEMEANING |
| In brief, this month |
INST |
| Informal doctrines, miss |
ISMS |
| Invent in sieved fashion |
DEVISE |
| Lacking attachments to place or people |
ROOTLESS |