| GUT | Word before feeling or flora |
| ANEMONES | Some fish or flora |
| DEJAVU | Happened before feeling (4,2) |
| BOREDOM | Seen-it-all-before feeling |
| DEJA | ___ vu ("this has happened before" feeling) |
| PRESENTIMENT | Before feeling foreboding (12) |
| PREACHY | Lecturing before feeling the effects of flu? |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| REMORSEFUL | Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. Synonyms: contrite, rueful |
| GROOVE | A fissure, flute or other furrow; good feeling or fine fettle; a fixed routine; or, a form of funk music (6) |
| 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) |
| VIBE | Less common singular word for a feeling or sensation experienced (4) |
| ANIMOSITY | Hostile feeling, or an antonym of the word formed by letters 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9 |
| AFFECTION | A feeling or liking for a person or place (9) |
| 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) |
