| Letters usually carved on gravestone |
RIP |
| Male propellers of boats |
OARSMEN |
| Mallard, say, or eider |
DUCK |
| Name for prayer's end |
AMEN |
| Of horse, rise up on hind legs |
REAR |
| Payment for lodgings? that's torn it |
RENT |
| Permits for advance against expenses |
IMPREST |
| Prince of Darkness |
LUCIFER |
| Purse lips, or gather into wrinkles |
PUCKER |
| Recent promotees, say, behaving with arrogance |
UPSTART |
| Religious or superstitious prohibitons |
TABOOS |
| Set fire to |
LIT |
| Showing good-humoured regret |
RUEFUL |
| Spared as military clergy |
PADRES |
| Swoons, falls unconscious |
FAINTS |
| Sycophantic male employee |
YESMAN |
| The highest point, as in the sky |
ZENITH |
| Tiny infant or good-looking girl |
BABE |
| Unusual or unconventional, as in music |
OFFBEAT |
| What Nero did while Rome burned |
FIDDLED |
| XC |
NINETY |
