| Not long ago |
RECENTLY |
| Obstacle (to progress) |
BARRIER |
| One living in exile |
EMIGRE |
| Raised (in status) |
ELEVATED |
| Reserve (tickets) |
BOOK |
| Retaining possession |
KEEPING |
| Set free |
LIBERATE |
| Shoal; take in (sail) |
REEF |
| Showing moral decline |
DECADENT |
| State a view |
OPINE |
| Strange, frightening |
EERIE |
| Subject (on which person writes, speaks) |
THEME |
| The - Cart (Shaw) |
APPLE |
| Twenty four ac emphasises it |
EYE |
