| Awards, tokens of victory |
TROPHIES |
| Casual cotton trousers |
CHINOS |
| Comfort, rest |
EASE |
| Continue in spite of resistance |
PERSIST |
| Delay or cancel punishment |
REPRIEVE |
| Evading work |
SHIRKING |
| Fails to attend to |
NEGLECTS |
| Fish-eating diving bird |
LOON |
| Game in which words are acted out |
CHARADES |
| Grant to help defray costs |
SUBSIDY |
| Hard, crystalline rock |
MARBLE |
| He used to be known as a commercial traveller |
SALESMAN |
| Hello to Shakespeare's Moor |
OTHELLO |
| Implied in addition to the literal meaning of a word |
CONNOTED |
| Liable to sudden unpredictable change |
FICKLE |
| More close at hand |
NEARER |
