| Clues | Answers |
| Approximate | ROUGH |
| Baby bird | CHICK |
| Banded stone | AGATE |
| Bullets | AMMO |
| Cattle crowd | HERD |
| Conspicuously virile? | MACHO |
| Evil spirit | GHOUL |
| Expressed with few words | INBRIEF |
| Figure | SHAPE |
| Fulcrum | PIVOT |
| Fulminate | INVEIGH |
| Gang | POSSE |
| Gem surface | FACET |
| Genial | AFFABLE |
| Ginger gal or guy | REDHEAD |
| Hard | STIFF |
| Indian leader, d. 1964 | NEHRU |
| Irritated | ITCHY |
| London division | BOROUGH |
| Magi gift | MYRRH |
| Physicist researching radioactivity | CURIE |
| Refuge | OASIS |
| Shamefaced | HANGDOG |
| Sheltered platform | VERANDA |
| Shoe part | UPPER |
| Spoil (reputation?) | TARNISH |
| Stay | ABIDE |
| Throat-clearing utterance | AHEM |
| Tiled, slated or thatched top? | ROOF |
| Troublesome | PESKY |
| Tusk material | IVORY |
| Years and years | YONKS |
