| Endure misfortune stoically |
GRINANDBEARIT |
| English comic actor and writer, b. 1939 |
CLEESE |
| Enquired |
ASKED |
| Exceptional |
SPECIAL |
| Fidel's younger brother and successor |
RAUL |
| Gertrude __, avant-garde US author, d. 1946 |
STEIN |
| Hit hard |
CLOBBERED |
| In which things vanish, magically |
THINAIR |
| Incited |
EGGEDON |
| Main artery |
AORTA |
| Make mentally unbalanced |
UNHINGE |
| Meagre and given grudgingly |
NIGGARDLY |
| Modifications |
CHANGES |
