| Gradual approaches to a climax, calculated increases |
BUILDUPS |
| Hostility shown in speech or action |
ANIMUS |
| Look like or be like |
RESEMBLE |
| Measurement from base to top |
HEIGHT |
| Most eccentric or peculiar |
ODDEST |
| Part of a sentence with its own finite verb |
CLAUSE |
| Play in a lively way, like children |
ROMP |
| Prefix denoting air |
AERO |
| Roman god of drink and revelry |
BACCHUS |
| Sign of the heavenly twins |
GEMINI |
| Skimpy bathing costume or Pacific atoll |
BIKINI |
| Stuff that whitens, hair or cloth |
BLEACH |
| Team of actors in a play |
CAST |
| Things that are given in part payment for others |
TRADEINS |
| Three scores by one person, say goals in a match |
HATTRICK |
| Without a mark, completely clean |
SPOTLESS |
