| Needlework |
SEWING |
| Obsessive fear |
PHOBIA |
| People taking substances? |
USERS |
| Put forward for consideration |
OFFERED |
| Satirised |
SENTUP |
| Small and playful |
ELFIN |
| Sound a guitar's strings, say |
THRUM |
| Strongly opposed (to) |
AVERSE |
| Theatrical routine or gimmick (informal) — kitsch (anag) |
SHTICK |
| Theme |
MOTIF |
| Vehicle-stopping post |
BOLLARD |
| Wind instrument |
FLUTE |
| ___ Gordimer, South African writer and political activist, d. 2014 |
NADINE |
