| Informal language |
SLANG |
| Interim, temporary |
MAKESHIFT |
| Involving meeting or contact |
PERSONTOPERSON |
| Lead sulphide mineral |
GALENA |
| Lustrous, glossy |
SHINY |
| Make an impromptu speech |
ADLIB |
| Make less stale |
FRESHEN |
| Military encirclement |
SIEGE |
| Mosque towers |
MINARETS |
| Occurring over and over again |
REPETITIVE |
| One raising game birds |
BEATER |
| One speaking with another |
COLLOCUTOR |
| One who takes time to do things |
SLOWCOACH |
| Painting genre |
STILLLIFE |
| Part of most addresses |
STREETNAME |
| Pick-me-up |
TONIC |
| Plant fibre |
SISAL |
| Pretending to sing |
MIMING |
| Reducing sexual desire |
ANAPHRODISIAC |
| Rescued, retrieved |
SALVAGED |
| Russian author (Fathers and Sons) |
TURGENEV |
| School subject |
MATHS |
| Seasoning gathered by evaporation |
SEASALT |
| Strong emotion |
PASSION |
| Surround |
ENCIRCLE |
| US president and general |
EISENHOWER |
| Where washing dries |
CLOTHESLINES |
| Wiltshire town |
SWINDON |
| Wrongly understood |
MISINTERPRETED |
| —, Lake and Palmer, rock group |
EMERSON |