| EMIL | Man's name (or backward, a citrus fruit) |
| TESSA | Girl's name (or backward, something of value) |
| SUOLA | Bottom of a shoe, in Italian (or backward, a noted baseball family) |
| NEF | Ship-shaped clock (or backward, a swamp) |
| OBOL | Old Greek coin (or backward, a wolf) |
| ARIL | Seed coat (or backward, a type of money, once) |
| ECA | Marshall Plan agcy. (or, backward, a poker player's bullet) |
| GIF | Web picture file (or backwards, a fruit) |
| AMAH | Asian nursemaid (or, backwards, a Syrian city) |
| SIVA | Hindu deity (or backwards, a car rental company) |
| RABI | Physicist I.I. (or backwards, a girder) |
| UME | Japanese apricot (or backwards, a bird) |
| KRA | Asian isthmus (or backwards, a boat) |
| KAO | Taiwan's highest peak, Hsin-___ (or backwards, a tree) |
| AET | Aged, in Latin (or backwards, a drink) |
| OREN | Opera conductor Daniel (or backwards, a famous Roman) |
| DOP | Gem cutter's holder (or backward, a pea holder) |
| LIANA | Type of vine (or backward, a hardhead?) |
| ESQUIRE | A polite title appended to a man's name; or, the shieldbearer of a medieval knight (7) |
| HORACE | A man's name - "or ache" anagram ? (6) |
