| ANOREXIC | This word, for a person suffering appetite loss and shedding half their body weight, was first used |
| SHREWS | Eating 80-90% of their body weight daily, insectivorous, territorial mammals often engaging in squeaking duels (6) |
| ANTS | Insects that can carry over 10 times their body weight |
| FIESTA | This word for a Spanish carnival was used as the UK title for Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises |
| GARAGE | This word for a building which stores a car, won out in a battle with "motor stable" before WWI |
| REEVE | The term 'sheriff' partly derives from this word for a high-ranking official of Anglo-Saxon and later times (5) |
| KEEPER | Short word for a person responsible for protecting an estate's game; a curator of a museum; or, a lighthouse wickie (6) |
| ORATOR | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music (6) |
| WRITER | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music |
| 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) |
| FRONT | Word for a person's forehead or face originally, later a book's cover, a shirt's dicky, a shop's facade, a seaside promenade or any other forepart (5) |
| SCOT | This word for a native of Caledonia also meant a tax |
| BOFFIN | Nicodemus ____, in Our Mutual Friend, has been suggested as the source of this word for a scientific or technical expert |
| MARTYR | Hit back at extremely teary resistance of a person suffering for their beliefs (6) |
| MANIC | A person suffering severe mood swings was called a "... depressive" as long ago as 1902 |
| GUIDE | General word for a person conducting a group of mountaineers or tourists; or, a type of book such as a Baedeker (5) |
| ANTIBODY | This word, meaning a blood protein which reacts against foreign substances, was first used in 1901 |
| COLLECTOR | Phillumenist, philatelist, deltiologist, numismatist... general word for a person who accumulates items of a specific type as a hobby (9) |
| TRAIT | Word for a person's characteristic "brush stroke" or distinguishing "drawn line", whether angry and blunt or calm and kind (5) |
| UTOPIA | This word for an ideal world was invented by Thomas More for his satirical 1516 work |
