| A slow mournful song for the dead |
DIRGE |
| Alert mama to the old school |
ALMAMATER |
| Arrive at conclusion through reasoning, as Sherlock Holmes did |
DEDUCE |
| Ask to one's home in friendly way |
INVITE |
| Banquets or celebratory days |
FEASTS |
| Be next or nearest to |
ADJOIN |
| Circles formed by ridges in fingerprint |
WHORLS |
| Clumsy or bungling, ham-fisted |
MALADROIT |
| Common vegetable seed from pod |
PEA |
| Crime of marrying while still married to another |
BIGAMY |
| Deep opening in the earth |
CHASM |
| Depart - on office holidays? |
LEAVE |
| Exclamation of triumph or surprise - a palindrome |
AHA |
| Form thought in the mind - or become pregnant |
CONCEIVE |
| Giving away - maybe blood |
DONATING |
| Great dispersion of Jews - and later Irish |
DIASPORA |
| Had Quebec received bouncing money order? |
BADCHEQUE |
| Hurrah in Spain |
OLE |
