| Clues | Answers |
| Artificial, serving as a substitute | ERSATZ |
| Attractive, in a somewhat old-fashioned way | COMELY |
| Card game | CANASTA |
| Cause suffering to | AFFLICT |
| Commonwealth country | NAMIBIA |
| Cured, like fish or meat? | SMOKED |
| Deep colour | MAGENTA |
| Embroiled in corruption | SLEAZY |
| Extremist | ULTRA |
| Famous raft | KONTIKI |
| Fly into a rage | GOBALLISTIC |
| Golf course | LINKS |
| Gradual absorption | OSMOSIS |
| Humid, awkward or adhesive | STICKY |
| Involving risk | CHANCY |
| Means of reproducing a design | STENCIL |
| Nightclub | DISCO |
| Noble gas | ARGON |
| Pacific kingdom | TONGA |
| Rejoice | EXULT |
| Shortage | DEARTH |
| Someone who eschews luxuries | ASCETIC |
| Swell | BLOAT |
| Tennis champion | RAFAELNADAL |
| Tense and uneasy | ONEDGE |
| Theme or pattern | MOTIF |
