| Nimble and quick |
AGILE |
| Pipe-like musical instruments |
FLUTES |
| Praise highly |
EXTOL |
| Preserved trace of ancient plant or animal |
FOSSIL |
| Raise B in Yugoslavia |
SERBIA |
| Reluctant, vacillating |
HESITANT |
| Repeals or cancels |
RESCINDS |
| Roman emperor |
CAESAR |
| Russian guitar-like instrument |
BALALAIKA |
| Showing pity or leniency |
MERCIFUL |
| Snakes |
SERPENTS |
| Suave and genial |
DEBONAIR |
| Thin slice of bacon |
RASHER |
| Thing |
OBJECT |
| Vaselike vessel |
URN |
| Win a snood in the Welsh county |
SNOWDONIA |
| Worldwide or cosmic |
UNIVERSAL |
| Wormlike forms of insects |
LARVAE |