| BRAVE | Fine adjective or a verb maybe |
| NOUN | Word before a verb, maybe |
| EPITHET | An adjective or phrase expressing a quality seen as characteristic of a person or thing (7) |
| ADVERB | Word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective or verb (6) |
| ENS | An S-shaped article, such as a link of a livery collar; or, a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives or traditionally denoting "female" (3) |
| TENSE | In a state of nervous tension or a verb lost in time? (5) |
| STEW | Hearty meal ladled into bowls or a verb meaning worry |
| TOTES | Brand of umbrellas or a verb meaning carries |
| ZEUGMA | Figure of speech in which an adjective or verb is applied to two nouns in different senses, as in '[they] covered themselves with dust and glory' (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) |
| EPITHETS | Adjectives or short phrases expressing some quality of a person or thing (8) |
| VERB | Parts of speech, noun, adjective or ... |
| RECIPROCAL | Adjective or noun expressing mutual action (10) |
| SUPERLATIVE | Form of adjective or adverb (11) |
| PROSE | Adjectives -- or pronouns -- will hold back such writing (5) |
| PARTICIPLE | In grammar, a non-finite derivative of a verb used as an adjective (10) |
| PARK | Word for a space occupied by artillery or wagons, hence a verb for "halt and leave a vehicle"; or, in other senses, an estate's pleasure ground, a public garden or a playground (4) |
| ABLE | Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective |
| ENT | Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective |
| SPOOM | A variation of "foam" that, as a verb, means "scud or sail fast before the wind"; or, as a noun, a frothy sorbet (5) |
| VERBS | Not adjectives or nouns |