| 'Once . . . . . ., twice shy' |
BITTEN |
| A carved effigy |
STATUE |
| A fight with weapons between two people |
DUEL |
| Alcoholic drink made from juniper berries - it's a trap |
GIN |
| Ancient city besieged to free beautiful Helen |
TROY |
| Between the horse's teeth, this loses control |
BIT |
| Came to get ceremonial staff |
MACE |
| Catch sight of mark in pots |
SPOT |
| Cut apart, maybe a relationship |
SEVER |
| Do what ham thespian does |
OVERACT |
| Dry stuff that fires easily |
TINDER |
| Foil and frustrate |
THWART |
| Follows or tracks stealthily, game or victim |
STALKS |
| Go to bed or quit work for good |
RETIRE |
| Great plains of S America |
PAMPAS |
| Hard tropical seed grated as spice |
NUTMEG |
| Help fund a sporting or artistic event |
SPONSOR |
| Hostility, malevolence |
ILLWILL |
| In cricket, wooden cross-piece placed on stumps |
BAIL |
| In relation to, as compared with |
VISAVIS |
| It is neutralised by alkali |
ACID |
