| Amble |
STROLL |
| American wild cat |
OCELOT |
| Attack verbally |
TEARINTO |
| Avoids —tricks |
DODGES |
| Barb |
THORN |
| Causing (someone) to lose hope |
DEMORALISING |
| Convert code into normal language |
DECIPHER |
| Extreme delight |
RAPTURE |
| Fail to meet — girl |
MISS |
| Genetic make-up |
HEREDITY |
| Greek comic dramatist — writer of Lysistrata, d. about 385 BC |
ARISTOPHANES |
| Hog's back |
RIDGE |