Informally tense and nervous |
UPTIGHT |
Keep watch secretly, maybe for foreign government |
SPY |
Lethal, fatal |
DEADLY |
Letters denoting holder of university doctorate |
PHD |
Make dirty in narrow gorge |
DEFILE |
Mature, fully grown |
ADULT |
Place where things are bought and sold |
MARKET |
Poverty and destitution |
PENURY |
Praises highly, lauds |
EXTOLS |
Receive under terms of will |
INHERIT |
Removable collar button |
STUD |
Sags, wilts |
DROOPS |
Self-governing principality in Pyrenees |
ANDORRA |
Some English dance around it on 1st May |
MAYPOLE |
Speak ill of, attack reputation |
DEFAME |
Surrenders or produces as harvest |
YIELDS |
Tempests and squalls |
GALES |
The whole of one's possessionsat death |
ESTATE |
Top-ranking naval officer |
ADMIRAL |
Walk proudly like peacock |
STRUT |
With Bailey, he ran a famous circus |
BARNUM |