| Piece of soot |
SMUT |
| Pot ran out for protector |
PATRON |
| Purpose or finish |
END |
| Real, not faked |
GENUINE |
| Reject the waste material |
REFUSE |
| Sheriff's officer |
BAILIFF |
| Since |
AGO |
| Slowly in music |
ADAGIO |
| Small fly |
GNAT |
| Small N American mammal |
RACCOON |
| Sofa |
SETTEE |
| Stumble on a journey |
TRIP |
| Suck up, as a sponge |
ABSORB |
| Suffer |
UNDERGO |
| Tree for the fire ? |
ASH |
| Vi, do read the Latin poet |
OVID |
| What a star or an eye might do |
TWINKLE |
| Wild ass |
ONAGER |
| Wine left at sea ? |
PORT |
| Work long and hard |
TOIL |
| Worship to extremes |
IDOLISE |