| VERBALIZES | finds the words for |
| BASS | One of the words for a flax, hemp, jute or lime fibre bag for holding an angler's fish; a powerful sea perch with a brilliant silver body; or, from "low", the lowest part in music or the deepest male |
| KEY | Francis Scott ___ wrote the words for the American national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner. (3) |
| SPIRITUS | The hymn "Veni Creator ____" provides the words for the first movement of Mahler's eighth symphony |
| SLIDERS | Miniature hamburgers; Scottish dialect for blocks of ice cream sandwiched between wafers; one of the words for athletes who race the luge; or, red-bellied terrapins (7) |
| WINDSLEEVE | One of the words for an airfield's drogue or sock indicating the strength or direction of the local breeze (4,6) |
| WOOF | One of the words for the threads woven with the warp to form cloth (4) |
| ROSSETTI | Christina ___, poet who wrote the words for In the Bleak Midwinter (8) |
| BEVY | One of the words for a company of otters or roe deer, or for a flock of doves, larks, quail or swans (4) |
| LIBRETTIST | The writer of the words for a musical, opera or play (10) |
| LYRICS | Cyril's composed the words for the songs (6) |
| SAMMYCAHN | Professional name of U.S. lyricist who wrote the words for the song High Hopes (5,4) |
| SEMPSTER | One of the words for a knight of the shears, sartor or tailor (8) |
| DRUPELET | One of the words for each one of the small fruits forming a bramble, raspberry or other syncarp (8) |
| NIPPON | Japanese name for Japan, derived from the words for 'sun' and 'origin' (6) |
| PRY | A snoop or prodnose, like John Poole's meddlesome Paul; or, one of the words for a lever for a heavy haul (3) |
| VICTOR | Name the word for the letter 'V' in the standard phonetic alphabet (6) |
| EM | The word for the 13th letter of the alphabet (2) |
| DERRICK | The surname of a London hangman of the early 17th century became the word for what type of crane-like framework, such as above an oil well? (7) |
| YELLOW | From or related to "gold, light bay" and the word for the vitellus of a single- or double-yolker, the name of a xanthous colour ranging in hue from pale lemon and primrose to deep earthy mustard and o |
