| Aimlessly floating |
ADRIFT |
| Attempting |
TRYING |
| Brought up |
REARED |
| City for humorous verse |
LIMERICK |
| Creating with needles and wool |
KNITTING |
| Delicate, understated |
SUBTLE |
| Extremely poor |
DESTITUTE |
| French impressionist painter |
RENOIR |
| Group of seven |
SEPTET |
| Instrument made for a specific purpose |
DEVICE |
| It shows wind direction |
VANE |
| Large tracts of open land |
RANGES |
| Leader of the majority party in US House of Representatives |
SPEAKER |
| Measured for quality or reliability |
TESTED |
| Military assistant |
AIDE |
| Mongoose-like animal |
MEERKAT |
| Next to |
BESIDE |
| Of the whole country |
NATIONAL |
