| A search for criminals |
DRAGNET |
| Annoyance at getting 12 down |
INDIGNATION |
| Bad luck |
MISCHANCE |
| Be prominent |
STANDOUT |
| Book written at Haworth parsonage |
JANEEYRE |
| Card game |
RUMMY |
| Caution |
PRUDENCE |
| Charles Villiers —, Irish composer |
STANFORD |
| Composer of The Merry Widow |
LEHAR |
| Contrivance, trickery |
ARTIFICE |
| Crop-gathering time |
HARVEST |
| Cup holder |
SAUCER |
| Dangerous attribute |
UNSAFENESS |
| Embarrassing error |
BLOOPER |
| Enduring forever |
IMPERISHABLE |
| Extremely timid (6,2,4,3,6) |
AFRAIDOFONESOWNSHADOW |
| Fencing sword |
EPEE |
| Fire (a gun) |
SHOOT |
| Friendly |
AMICABLE |
| General scientific law |
PRINCIPLE |
| Ghost |
PHANTOM |
| Handwritten document |
MANUSCRIPT |
| Icy deposit |
FROST |
| Inequitable treatment |
RAWDEAL |
| Like molecules that can bond in a polymer |
MONOMERIC |
| Like roughage |
FIBROUS |
| Made neat |
TIDIED |
| Madness; disorder |
DERANGEMENT |
| Move slowly |
DAWDLE |