| A Spanish wine |
RIOJA |
| Abstract principles |
THEORIES |
| Alarm, consternation |
DISMAY |
| Bend, arc |
CURVE |
| Bids, tenders |
OFFERS |
| Black-and-white diving bird |
AUK |
| Calls to answer an indictment |
ARRAIGNS |
| Consummate, virtuoso |
MASTERLY |
| Contaminating |
INFECTING |
| Country and porcelain |
CHINA |
| Defence of being somewhere else at the time of a crime |
ALIBI |
| Distilled alcoholic drink |
SPIRIT |
| Emissaries |
ENVOYS |
| Extinguish, wipe out |
ERADICATE |
| Furtive, surreptitious |
STEALTHY |
| Given to amiable talk |
CHATTY |
| Growing old |
AGING |
| In aid, strangely, of the country |
INDIA |