| TOUCHING | Feeling or evoking emotion |
| ODE | Lyric poem evoking emotion |
| DOLEFUL | Filled with or evoking sadness (7) |
| PASTORAL | Relating to or evoking rural life (8) |
| REMORSEFUL | Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. Synonyms: contrite, rueful |
| MOOD | From an Old English word with a range of meanings including courage, fierceness, heart, mind and thought, a noun for one's "good" or "bad" temper; the general atmosphere, feeling or pervading tone; or |
| GROOVE | A fissure, flute or other furrow; good feeling or fine fettle; a fixed routine; or, a form of funk music (6) |
| EMOTICON | A portmanteau word for a smiley :-) or other combination of characters representing one's facial expression, feeling or state of mind, in an email or SMS ;-) (8) |
| VESSEL | A bowl, cask, jar, pan, pot, pitcher or other domestic utensil designed as a receptacle; a large boat or ship; or, in its biblical sense, a person regarded as a container of feelings or an embodiment |
| STIFLE | Smother or suppress a feeling or action (6) |
| CONCERNED | Feeling or showing worry or solicitude (9) |
| PASSION | Strong feeling or emotion (7) |
| AFFECTION | A feeling or liking for a person or place (9) |
| RACES | Sudden occurrences of a phenomenon, feeling, or emotion (5) |
| NUMB | From "take", a state of being anaesthetised, deadened, insensible, paralysed or torpid as a result of feeling or sensation "taken" away (4) |
| GLAD | Sword lily's nickname that hints at a beaming, bright, cheerful, happy, joyous or pleased feeling or state (4) |
| OBJECT | A thing observed; a purpose or goal; the focus of one's attention or feelings; or, a deplorable spectacle (6) |
| INTENSITY | Depth of feeling or energy (9) |
| SENSE | Feeling or faculty (5) |
| INCOLDBLOOD | Without feeling or pity |
