| ACR | Not Dn., in a crossword |
| ARMS | See 18 Dn: In a state of military preparedness, supplies insufficient weapons (5,4) |
| SQUARE | A tool for determining a right angle; a cotton flower-bud; a quadrilateral; or, something four-sided, such as a cell in a crossword grid, a chocolate brownie, a formation of troops, a marketplace, a m |
| NEURASTHENIA | Eurasian then breaks dn in stress condition |
| REOCCUPY | About to fill 18 dn in again? |
| ALLTOLD | 1 dn, in summary |
| BRIGAND | one dn in gang holding doctor |
| PERPENDICULAR | Like this answer, relative to 1 dn, in style of construction |
| NAMETHEDAY | Go public on match fixing having encountered 4 dn in denial |
| SCRABBLE | Board-and-tile game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered tiles on a 225-square board, like words in a crossword puzzle. (8) |
| LIGHT | Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from 380-700 nm; or, a blank space to be filled by a letter in a crossword (5) |
| ERASE | Remove as a wrong letter in a crossword |
| DOWN | Not across in a crossword |
| PUN | Many a "?" clue in a crossword |
| ERR | Leave a square blank in a crossword tournament, perhaps |
| AHA | Exclamation when you solve a tricky clue in a crossword puzzle |
| SYNONYM | That which means the same a in a crossword? (7) |
| HEADING | "Across" or "Down," in a crossword |
| SHORTANSWER | "Eon" or "era" in a crossword? |
| EVEN | Like the number of answers in a crossword, usually |
