| A French cake |
GATEAU |
| A learned person |
SAVANT |
| A lone Christmas in France |
NOEL |
| A lump of turf |
SOD |
| A robot in human form |
ANDROID |
| An expert, or a learned Hindu |
PUNDIT |
| Ardent about diva |
AVID |
| Biscuit for baby |
RUSK |
| Calm, not flighty |
SEDATE |
| Diluted for machinery wrecker |
LUDDITE |
| Distant like meteor |
REMOTE |
| Don't beat about ... .... come to the point |
THEBUSH |
| Down at the mouth, gloomy |
GLUM |
| Examine medically by feeling with hands |
PALPATE |
| Fall for globule |
DROP |
| French water - from Cologne? |
EAU |
| Giver of gratuity |
TIPPER |
| Go septic or cause resentment |
FESTER |
| Grows smaller like the moon |
WANES |
| Hard kernel of minutiae |
NUT |
| In Greek myth, a Titan made to support the heavens |
ATLAS |