| Meat of the deer |
VENISON |
| Most scarce and probably precious |
RAREST |
| Musical about Dickens boy who asked for more |
OLIVER |
| Orchestral composition as prelude, or a friendly advance |
OVERTURE |
| Pleasant-sounding city in S France |
NICE |
| Real, existing in fact |
ACTUAL |
| Receive willingly or take as true |
ACCEPT |
| Result of action, or cause to happen |
EFFECT |
| Sailed zigzag course to take advantage of wind |
TACKED |
| Small worm once used for blood-letting, or a parasitical person |
LEECH |
| Soft white substance used to make fabric - in song, Old Man River don't plant it |
COTTON |
| Stretch of water between S Ireland and Cornwall |
CELTICSEA |
| Surrounding and blockading of a town |
SIEGE |
| They are forced to live in foreign countries |
EXILES |
| This bladder is attached to the liver and stores bile |
GALL |
| Tie-in rant to a traveller |
ITINERANT |
| Turn these to gain the advantage |
TABLES |
| Uncommunicative, saying very little |
TACITURN |