| Most tenuous or smallest |
SLIGHTEST |
| Older or higher in standing |
SENIOR |
| Ponder, think deeply |
COGITATE |
| Puts on a play |
STAGES |
| Rebukes formally |
CENSURES |
| Roman emperor's month |
AUGUST |
| Serve as a symbol of something |
REPRESENT |
| Shape wood, as with an axe |
HEW |
| Skilful, proficient |
ADEPT |
| Small pearl-grey gull |
KITTIWAKE |
| Smell, scent |
ODOUR |
| State of total disorder |
SHAMBLES |
| Stop or slow down the progress of |
ARREST |
| Sudden, unexpected events |
SURPRISES |
| The immaterial part of a person |
PSYCHE |
| Vapid, fatuous |
INANE |
| Walking in water |
PADDLING |
| Waste scrap of cloth |
RAG |
