| Check of books |
BATH |
| Deductive (reasoning) |
APRIORI |
| Enliven |
ANIMATE |
| Epitomise |
EMBODY |
| Exclude(d) |
SHUTOUT |
| Frenchman's flat hat |
BERET |
| In the rigging, up high |
ALOFT |
| Joseph --, Austrian composer |
HAYDN |
| Keep safe |
PRESERVE |
| Knotted, twisted (tree) |
GNARLED |
| Mass of hair; group of sheaves |
SHOCK |
| Menacing coercion |
INTIMIDATION |
| Passed on tittle-tattle |
GOSSIPED |