| ... de corps, team spirit |
ESPRIT |
| Avoid, or try dodge, a question or duty |
SIDESTEP |
| Baked pastry dish |
PIE |
| Believed to be guilty |
SUSPECTED |
| Bird with long down-curved bill |
CURLEW |
| Casual, free and easy |
INFORMAL |
| Cold dishes of vegetables or fruits |
SALADS |
| Come to light, become known |
TRANSPIRE |
| Comes together by chance or arrangement |
MEETS |
| Confuses or goes bad |
ADDLES |
| Control, hold in check |
RESTRAIN |
| Crosspieces of a ladder |
RUNGS |
| Decay, disintegrate |
DECOMPOSE |
| Demise |
DEATH |
| Devoted to, a cause perhaps |
DEDICATED |
| Die back, abate |
RECEDE |
| Drinking tubes |
STRAWS |
| Ecclesiastical rules |
CANONLAW |