| More is less? |
law of diminishing returns |
| Mournful poem |
ELEGY |
| Not as good |
WORSE |
| Not cut with an axe |
UNHEWN |
| Novel by Joseph Conrad |
NOSTROMO |
| Oppressive ruler |
DESPOT |
| Overindulgent living |
DISSIPATION |
| Paved area beside a house |
PATIO |
| Period of temporary relief |
RESPITE |
| Poem of fourteen lines |
SONNET |
| Producer of spirits |
DISTILLER |
| Prove more powerful |
PREVAIL |
| Retired person's income |
PENSION |
| Rogue |
SCOUNDREL |
| Seize one's opportunity while one may |
strike while the iron is hot |
| Sharply tasting or smelling |
PUNGENT |
| Short extract |
SNIPPET |
| Situation equivalent to a sellers' market |
excess demand |
| Source of light |
TORCH |
| Sudden brilliant idea |
INSPIRATION |
| Teaching, instruction |
TUITION |
| The arising of resentful hostility |
EMBITTERMENT |
| Things go better with lots of people |
the more the merrier |
| Tied to sedentary work |
DESKBOUND |
| Top martial arts grade |
black belt |
| Town south of Birmingham with large transmitter |
DROITWICH |
| Trial of new aircraft |
test flight |
| Usual, expected |
NORMAL |
| Utterly destroy |
OBLITERATE |
| Writer favouring sentimentalised love and the fantastic |
ROMANTICIST |
| Yellow element |
SULPHUR |
