| Prisoners held as sureties |
HOSTAGES |
| Punctuation mark |
COMMA |
| Respiratory disorder |
ASTHMA |
| Rupture of a blood vessel or extreme anger |
APOPLEXY |
| Seat for a rider |
SADDLE |
| She sells |
SALESGIRL |
| Smoked pig-meat |
HAM |
| Snapshot |
PHOTO |
| Subject matter, topic |
THEME |
| Tax paid by businesses to a local authority |
RATES |
| The intervening period |
MEANTIME |
| They're enclosed in skulls |
BRAINS |
| Took evasive action |
VEERED |
| Transfer of property rights as security for a loan |
MORTGAGE |
| Twisted mass |
TANGLE |
| Unit of measurement of work |
ERG |
| Warm drink of spirit, water, sugar etc |
HOTTODDY |
| Well-known |
NOTED |