| (Of weather) unusual for the time of year |
UNSEASONABLE |
| A group of notes sung to one syllable |
MELISMA |
| Act of gaoling |
IMPRISONMENT |
| An excess of responsibilities (3,4,5,2,3,4) |
TOOMANYIRONSINTHEFIRE |
| Avoided coming to the point |
PREVARICATED |
| Become less miserable |
CHEERUP |
| Cause of great suffering |
TRIBULATION |
| Celestial obscuration |
ECLIPSE |
| Climber's peg |
PITON |
| Creator of new devices |
INVENTOR |
| Critical, serious |
ACUTE |
| Desiccated |
DRIED |
| Desirable as a spouse |
ELIGIBLE |
| Drug |
OPIATE |
| Easily able to speak and write |
FLUENT |
| Echo loudly |
REVERBERATE |
| Excessively concerned with minor details |
PEDANTIC |
| First light |
DAWN |
| Future person in one's family line |
DESCENDANT |
| Group of soldiers |
PLATOON |
| Growth from foot |
TOENAIL |
| Gymnastic entertainer |
ACROBAT |
| In sequence |
CONSECUTIVE |
| Joining device |
COUPLING |
| Kitchen device |
BLENDER |
| Large-flowered plant |
HIBISCUS |
| Limbless body |
TORSO |
| Long hollow cylinder |
TUBE |
| Lymphocyte aiding immune response |
TCELL |