| Loses |
MISLAYS |
| Make a tactless blunder (3,4,4,2,2) |
PUTONESFOOTINIT |
| Manual labour |
TOIL |
| Medicine acting against a poison |
ANTIDOTE |
| Mexican dish |
TOSTADO |
| Narrow entrance |
THROAT |
| Of a particular Roman district; an alert, anag. |
LATERAN |
| One who disbelieves the existence of gods |
ATHEIST |
| Owl's cry |
HOOT |
| Seventeenth century French physicist |
PASCAL |
| Small lake |
POND |
| Smitten with extreme fear |
TERRORSTRICKEN |
| Smoky fog |
SMOG |
| Something bought unseen (1,3,2,1,4) |
APIGINAPOKE |
| Something going on salad |
FRENCHDRESSING |
| Soon |
BEFORELONG |
| Spice |
NUTMEG |
| State of north-west USA |
IDAHO |
| Stiff; like potatoes |
STARCHY |
| Stupid |
IDIOTIC |
| Succulent plant |
CACTUS |
| Test of voting intentions |
OPINIONPOLL |
| Things lasting only briefly |
EPHEMERA |
| Two-wheeled vehicle |
MOTORCYCLE |
| Type of sugar |
MUSCOVADO |
| Underwent mental anguish |
AGONISED |
| Untrustworthiness |
DISHONESTY |
| Unwilling to believe something |
INCREDULOUS |
| Weed-covered part of Atlantic Ocean |
SARGASSOSEA |
| Workplace cartoon hero |
DILBERT |