| (Of flow) decrease and stop |
DRYUP |
| Ancient measures of length |
CUBITS |
| Artificial lake |
RESERVOIR |
| Conducting (oneself) well |
BEHAVING |
| Controlling persons |
AUTHORITIES |
| Conventionalised image |
STEREOTYPE |
| Country bordering Lebanon |
SYRIA |
| Descartes' statement (1,5,9,1,2) |
ITHINKTHEREFOREIAM |
| Difficult to control |
FRACTIOUS |
| Displace musical beats |
SYNCOPATE |
| Duration |
LENGTH |
| Eating away |
CORRODING |
| Eating everything |
OMNIVOROUS |
| Elevated to the peerage |
ENNOBLED |
| Employ too often |
OVERUSE |
| Filled to excess |
OVERSTOCKED |
| Flat-topped hill |
MESA |
| French country house |
CHATEAU |
| Gas barrier in pipe |
UTRAP |
| Glass containers |
FLASKS |
| Gloucestershire market town |
CIRENCESTER |
| Grimly serious quality |
STERNNESS |
| Having both parents dead |
ORPHANED |
| Hill of sand |
DUNE |
| Hinged entrances |
GATES |
| Hot North African sauce |
HARISSA |
| Hunting dog |
BASSETHOUND |
| Impartial mediator |
HONESTBROKER |
| Individually separate |
DISCRETE |
| Inflicted injury in retribution |
REVENGED |