| Hired killer |
HITMAN |
| Holiday industry |
TOURISM |
| Less arousing, exciting |
TAMER |
| Nothing |
NIL |
| Pedestrian, unimaginative |
PROSAIC |
| Rank above colonel |
BRIGADIER |
| Rich, influential person |
PLUTOCRAT |
| Self-styled |
SOIDISANT |
| Slow courtly dance |
PAVANE |
| Strain, nervousness |
TENSION |
| Sweet, gentle (tones) |
DULCET |
| Tear roughly; turbulent water |
RIP |
| Torquato ---, It. poet |
TASSO |
| Towards the stern |
AFT |
