| Make the best of one's chances |
PLAYONESCARDSWELL |
| Native of Tehran |
IRANIAN |
| Non-professional |
AMATEUR |
| Novel by Arthur Hailey |
AIRPORT |
| One going in for something |
ENTRANT |
| One studying the earth's structure |
GEOLOGIST |
| One who comes through difficulties |
SURVIVOR |
| One's position (regarding something) |
POINTOFVIEW |
| Owner (of a business) |
PROPRIETOR |
| Passageway between blocks of seats |
AISLE |
| Perform more impressively (than someone) |
GOONEBETTER |
| Personal written history |
MEMOIRS |
| Place where a community has been established |
SETTLEMENT |
| Rising tendency |
UPTREND |
| Rub out |
ERASE |
| Sailors' dance |
HORNPIPE |
| Scots farm |
CROFT |
| Senior military officers |
HIGHCOMMAND |
| Set of rooms |
SUITE |
| Ship's attendant |
CABINBOY |
| Something not following on logically |
NONSEQUITUR |
| Suffer hunger |
STARVE |
| That will not happen/succeed |
NOCHANCE |
| The —, tragedy by Euripedes |
BACCHAE |
| Twelfth of an octave |
SEMITONE |
| Violent troublemakers |
HOOLIGANS |
| Washington museum institution |
SMITHSONIAN |
| WC in full |
WATERCLOSET |
| Whatever happens |
ATALLEVENTS |
| Young pet |
PUPPYDOG |
