| Alarming |
STARTLING |
| Bite gently and eat a little at a time |
NIBBLE |
| Disturbs, often politically |
AGITATES |
| Easily carried |
PORTABLE |
| Exhilarated |
ELATED |
| Faith |
BELIEF |
| Fruits of the oak |
ACORNS |
| Funny |
COMIC |
| Glowing cinder |
EMBER |
| Greet the heron |
EGRET |
| Grew rigid |
STIFFENED |
| Headgear for a canal |
PANAMA |
| Heading with name of newspaper |
MASTHEAD |
| Hold in very high regard |
REVERE |
| Hygienic, like a surgeon's instruments, say |
SERILE |
| Irritation of the skin |
ITCH |
| It's emphatically me |
MYSELF |
| Make certain |
ENSURE |
