| Mentally infirm with age |
SENILE |
| More favorable position |
ADVANTAGE |
| Most astute or calculating |
SHREWDEST |
| Most devoid of light |
DARKEST |
| Pharynx |
THROAT |
| Published, brought out |
ISSUED |
| Quick Irish satirist? |
SWIFT |
| Recited the letters of a word |
SPELT |
| Reproductive organs of flowers |
STAMENS |
| Reticent shellfish? |
CLAM |
| Set about dealing with |
TACKLE |
| Sharp spasm of pain in the side |
STITCH |
| Stern, harsh |
SEVERE |
| Suggest, recommend |
ADVISE |
| Trial, care, worry |
TROUBLE |
| Turned inside out or upside down |
REVERSED |
| Unit of a poem |
STANZA |
| Word or words that function as a verb |
PREDICATE |