| A hot condiment, may be red |
PEPPER |
| A military store of guns and armaments |
ARSENAL |
| A natural talent or skill, for which there may be a test |
APTITUDE |
| A rarer kind of backlog |
ARREAR |
| A single thing, poor mite |
ITEM |
| An auctioneer's wooden hammer |
MALLET |
| Attribute to, say, an old writer? |
ASCRIBE |
| Catch up on and pass out |
OVERTAKE |
| Choosing ideas or thoughts from various sources, as memory may |
ECLECTIC |
| Excess of fluid in tissues causing swelling |
OEDEMA |
| Great Irish-American playwright . . . . . . O'Neill |
EUGENE |
| Having little money or means |
POOR |
| I rid clue of derision |
RIDICULE |
| Keeps to rules or general custom |
CONFORMS |
| Kind of conduit for pouring liquid into small opening |
FUNNEL |
| Lacking foundation, as rumours may |
BASELESS |