| Make a bad situation worse |
AGGRAVATE |
| Male swan |
COB |
| Move fast |
RUN |
| Narrow steep-sided valley |
CANYON |
| Of the immediate past |
RECENT |
| Pairs of consecutive lines of verse |
COUPLETS |
| Perfect, model |
IDEAL |
| Protruded |
JUTTED |
| Quarrels about petty points |
SQUABBLES |
| Take food |
EAT |
| They practice self denial as a spiritual discipline |
ASCETICS |
| Trade names, of designers say |
LABELS |
| Turn pale, in fear perhaps |
BLANCH |
| Unfortunate or adverse |
UNTOWARD |
| Warmed |
HEATED |
| Work together on a common enterprise |
COOPERATE |
| Wrote one's signature on the back |
ENDORSED |
| Yet to be paid |
OWING |