| Expenditure on something |
OUTLAY |
| Forswear and abjure |
RENOUNCE |
| French edible snail |
ESCARGOT |
| Instructed in advance |
BRIEFED |
| It speaks louder than words |
ACTION |
| Kept content by indulging wishes |
HUMOURED |
| Kind of hammer used in polo |
MALLET |
| Notorious dictator of Latins |
STALIN |
| Pained or worried greatly |
AGONIZED |
| Pass around snakes |
ASPS |
| Perfumes or extracts |
ESSENCES |
| Pillar or newspaper article |
COLUMN |
| Pushes upwards or promotes |
BOOSTS |
| Short journey to get or bring |
ERRAND |
| Small sealed case of magnetic tape |
CASSETTE |
| Utter and extreme, maybe nonsense |
ARRANT |