| ASSAILED | Attacked physically or verbally (8) |
| BELABOUR | Attack physically or verbally (8) |
| LETFLY | Attack physically or verbally (3,3) |
| HITOUT | Physically or verbally attack (3,3) |
| TEARSINTO | Attacks physically or verbally (5,4) |
| ASSAIL | Attack, either physically or verbally |
| ASSAILANT | A person who attacks another physically or verbally (9) |
| STRESSED | Physically or mentally over-exerted (8) |
| SUSTAINS | Supports physically or mentally (8) |
| CORRUMPO | I make worse, physically or morally (8) |
| POWERFUL | Strong physically or politically (8) |
| JAB | 2-Down could deliver one physically or verbally |
| ILLTREAT | Hurt, physically or mentally (3-5) |
| FRAZZLES | Exhausts physically or emotionally |
| SLANDERED | Maligned or verbally defamed |
| KNOCKER | A carper, cold-caller, door banger, fault-finder or other physically or mentally rapping person or thing (7) |
| STRAIGHTASADIE | Physically or morally upright (8,2,1,3) |
| SUSTAIN | Strengthen or support physically or mentally (7) |
| POINTS | Word, from "pierce", for abstractly, physically or symbolically sharp or punctuated things, including dots, etching needles, full stops, moments in time, nibs, promontories, scores in games, tips of b |
| TIRED | Physically or mental weary (5) |
