| 20 answers for: Structure aka a kitty condo |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| CATTREE | Structure aka a kitty condo |
| FRYINGPAN | For cooking a crepe, frizzling an omelette, sauteing a potato, searing a beef fillet or sizzling a roti of millet, it's a basic shallow utensil, aka a skillet (6-3) |
| TIE | A fastening such as a bow, dressing-gown cord, four-in-hand, knot, ribbon, shoelace or string; an obligation; a bond; equality in score, aka a draw; or, a slur connecting two musical notes (3) |
| REVEL | Word for a tangle or cluster; a broken thread, fray or loose end; a row or run of unwoven stitches, aka a ladder; or, a complication, confusion, fankle or muddle (5) |
| GARLAND | A wreath of flowers and/or foliage; a carved or painted representation of said floral/foliated festoon; a literary anthology or miscellany, aka a florilegium; or, a distinction or prize (7) |
| PLOT | A small piece of ground; a ground plan; a secret underhand scheme, aka a conspiracy; or, in the Scots dialect, a word for "pluck feathers, strip of hair", thus figuratively "to fleece" (4) |
| TOASTS | Word for "cosily warm", in allusion to bread browned before a fire; or, a name for a hot grilled cheese sandwich, aka a croque-monsieur or a melt (6) |
| FIREBALL | An orb of lightning; a sphere of flames or burning gases; a bright exploding meteor, aka a bolide; thus a human dynamo or powerhouse (8) |
| TENEBRIS | From "darkness, gloom", word for a person who lurks in the dark, aka a night prowler; a night spirit; or, a genus of darkling beetle, named for its nocturnal nyctophiliac habits (8) |
| SOUSE | Related to "salt", a word for pickled pigs' ears, trotters or other pork; the brine or marinade used; a dunk or plunge into pickling or other liquid; or, a habitual drunkard, aka a soak (5) |
| FINGERLING | A salmon/trout parr or other fish no bigger than one's pinkie; a small digit-shaped potato; or, a diminutive being, aka a hop-o'-my-thumb (10) |
| BEAU | From Latin for "charming, fine, gay, handsome", a man attentive to dress or fashion, aka a dandy or a fop; or, a belle or maiden's ardent admirer, boyfriend, lover, spark or swain (4) |
| BEE | Insect whose busyness is reflected in a communal assembly for a concentrated effort, such as a lexical challenge, aka a spelldown (3) |
| POUND | Word for a bang, bash, beat, hammer, pulverising pummel or thump; or, a nummulary unit of sterling, aka a quid, that can collapse, crash, come down hard or take a hit on the stock market (5) |
| POT | A casserole, crock, pipkin, planter or other such vessel; a kitty; dialect for a hole eroded in limestone; or, a trophy, such as a silver cup (3) |
| STUBBLE | Collective stumps of corn left in a field where a crop has been cut and harvested; or, an unshaven growth of beard, aka a five-o'clock shadow (7) |
| FELLOW | Word, from "one who lays down money in a joint undertaking", for an associate, comrade, confrere, partner or peer; one of a pair, aka a mate or companion; or, any man or boy (6) |
| CODE | Term for a collection/digest of laws first, later a secret system of signals, symbols or words, aka a cipher (4) |
| CACOLOGY | From Greek for "bad speech", a term for a poor choice of words or faulty pronunciation, aka a blunder (8) |
| PRODIGY | Word for an omen or portent originally, later a marvel or wonder; a monster; or, one of precocious genius, aka a mastermind, phenomenon, virtuoso, whizz kid or wunderkind (7) |
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