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earaches (13 points)
Canal problems (wordplay)
Drum annoyances, perhaps
Sore for sound (wordplay)
E·1+A·1+R·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
earlocks (14 points)
Earlock
E·1+A·1+R·1+L·1+O·1+C·3+K·5+S·1 = 14 pts
ecbolics (14 points)
Ecbolic
E·1+C·3+B·3+O·1+L·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 14 pts
ecdysons (14 points)
Ecdyson
E·1+C·3+D·2+Y·4+S·1+O·1+N·1+S·1 = 14 pts
ecesises (10 points)
Ecesis
E·1+C·3+E·1+S·1+I·1+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
echelons (13 points)
Series of levels
Levels or ranks in an organization
Levels of rank, could be upper
E·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+L·1+O·1+N·1+S·1 = 13 pts
echidnas (14 points)
Animals wrecking a nice dish I put out
Egg-laying mammals had since evolved
Egg-laying mammals
E·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+D·2+N·1+A·1+S·1 = 14 pts
echoisms (15 points)
Echoism
E·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+I·1+S·1+M·3+S·1 = 15 pts
echoless (13 points)
Lacking auditory feedback
Without any reverb
Without auditory feedback
E·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+L·1+E·1+S·1+S·1 = 13 pts
eclipses (12 points)
Sunscreens (wordplay)
Solar and lunar events
Solar or lunar events
E·1+C·3+L·1+I·1+P·3+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 12 pts
eclipsis (12 points)
A figure of syntax
E·1+C·3+L·1+I·1+P·3+S·1+I·1+S·1 = 12 pts
eclogues (11 points)
Clue goes (anagram) - poems by Virgil
Poems representing 21's clue
Bucolic poems
E·1+C·3+L·1+O·1+G·2+U·1+E·1+S·1 = 11 pts
ecocides (13 points)
Ecocide
E·1+C·3+O·1+C·3+I·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
ecotones (10 points)
Transition zones
Transitional zones between different plant communities
E·1+C·3+O·1+T·1+O·1+N·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
ecotypes (15 points)
Smallest species subdivisions
Subspecies adapted to their environments
Specially adapted subspecies
E·1+C·3+O·1+T·1+Y·4+P·3+E·1+S·1 = 15 pts
ectopias (12 points)
Ectopia
E·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+P·3+I·1+A·1+S·1 = 12 pts
edacious (11 points)
Keen to eat, I do sauce specially
Devouring.
Voracious.
E·1+D·2+A·1+C·3+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1 = 11 pts
edifices (14 points)
Parts of a skyline
Skyscrapers, for example
One World Trade Center and others
E·1+D·2+I·1+F·4+I·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 14 pts
educates (11 points)
Teaches to see about accepting old money
Teaches Tom to wear polished suede
Schools etc used a complex
E·1+D·2+U·1+C·3+A·1+T·1+E·1+S·1 = 11 pts
eductors (11 points)
Devices for making fluids
E·1+D·2+U·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 11 pts
effacers (16 points)
Obliterators.
E·1+F·4+F·4+A·1+C·3+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 16 pts
ejectors (17 points)
Booster seats, of a sort
They throughout, by the sound of them
Angry umpires, at times
E·1+J·8+E·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
ekistics (14 points)
Science or study of human settlements
E·1+K·5+I·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 14 pts
elastics (10 points)
Bands for braces
Handy office supplies.
Bands that stretch across the country
E·1+L·1+A·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 10 pts
electees (10 points)
The chosen ones
Those voted into office
The ones chosen
E·1+L·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
electors (10 points)
People in college (wordplay)
Voters in college (wordplay)
Let cores have the vote, perhaps
E·1+L·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
electros (10 points)
Electro
E·1+L·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+R·1+O·1+S·1 = 10 pts
elegiacs (11 points)
Where to see matinZe at three approximately
E·1+L·1+E·1+G·2+I·1+A·1+C·3+S·1 = 11 pts
elenchus (13 points)
Logical refutation
E·1+L·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+H·4+U·1+S·1 = 13 pts
elflocks (17 points)
The Spanish sheep have tangled hair
E·1+L·1+F·4+L·1+O·1+C·3+K·5+S·1 = 17 pts
embraces (14 points)
Holds close to one's heart (wordplay)
Takes into one's arms
With arms around one gets pairs of 'em
E·1+M·3+B·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 14 pts
empirics (14 points)
Believers in experimental methods.
Persons relying on experience vis-a-vis theory
E·1+M·3+P·3+I·1+R·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 14 pts
emplaces (14 points)
Emplace
E·1+M·3+P·3+L·1+A·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 14 pts
enactors (10 points)
They lay down the laws
Legislators, at times
Passing people
E·1+N·1+A·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
encashes (13 points)
Turns into money, a cheque say
E·1+N·1+C·3+A·1+S·1+H·4+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enchains (13 points)
Is binding since NHS contracted a quack
E·1+N·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+I·1+N·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enchants (13 points)
Charms Earl Newton with repeats
Charms engineer with top-notch repeats
Bewitches and charms
E·1+N·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+T·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enchases (13 points)
Puts in a setting
Engraves swallows in elaborate scene
E·1+N·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enclasps (12 points)
Enclasp
E·1+N·1+C·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+P·3+S·1 = 12 pts
enclaves (13 points)
Elves can (anagram)
Enclosed and distinct territories
Phenomena of the empire era
E·1+N·1+C·3+L·1+A·1+V·4+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
encloses (10 points)
Puts in an envelope, say
Enfolds or confines
Puts a fence around
E·1+N·1+C·3+L·1+O·1+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
encoders (11 points)
Cryptographers, perhaps
They have something to hide
Ciphers experts
E·1+N·1+C·3+O·1+D·2+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 11 pts
encrusts (10 points)
Forms a hard coating on
Covers with a hard coating
Decorates richly.
E·1+N·1+C·3+R·1+U·1+S·1+T·1+S·1 = 10 pts
encrypts (15 points)
Rewrites with new characters, perhaps
Writes in cipher
Puts in code
E·1+N·1+C·3+R·1+Y·4+P·3+T·1+S·1 = 15 pts
endemics (13 points)
Local plants or animals
E·1+N·1+D·2+E·1+M·3+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 13 pts
enforces (13 points)
Compels obedience, say law
Insists on the follow-on
Carries out, as laws
E·1+N·1+F·4+O·1+R·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enhances (13 points)
Uses makeup, perhaps
Makes better or heightens
Makes greater, as in value.
E·1+N·1+H·4+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enounces (10 points)
Articulates
States
Proclaims
E·1+N·1+O·1+U·1+N·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
enriches (13 points)
Adds to one's coffers
Adds greater significance to
Boosts octane, for example
E·1+N·1+R·1+I·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
enticers (10 points)
Sirens, to Odysseus
The Sirens, to sailors
Sirens, for example.
E·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
epicarps (14 points)
Peach peels
E·1+P·3+I·1+C·3+A·1+R·1+P·3+S·1 = 14 pts
epicenes (12 points)
Common-gender pronouns
Sexless ones
Sexless words
E·1+P·3+I·1+C·3+E·1+N·1+E·1+S·1 = 12 pts
epicures (12 points)
Restaurant critics, perhaps
Students of pleasure.
Gourmets big film sure to be developed
E·1+P·3+I·1+C·3+U·1+R·1+E·1+S·1 = 12 pts
episcias (12 points)
Episcia
E·1+P·3+I·1+S·1+C·3+I·1+A·1+S·1 = 12 pts
erecters (10 points)
Memorialists, often (var.)
Builders, e.g
Builders, for example
E·1+R·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
erectors (10 points)
Assemblymen (wordplay)
Some spinal muscles
Construction crew, essentially
E·1+R·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
eristics (10 points)
Specious reasoners
Forensics.
Controversialists.
E·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 10 pts
erratics (10 points)
Eccentric ones.
Capricious people
Glacier-moved rocks differing from surrounding
E·1+R·1+R·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 10 pts
escalops (12 points)
Escalop
E·1+S·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+O·1+P·3+S·1 = 12 pts
escapees (12 points)
Former joint tenants (wordplay)
Some former joint tenants (wordplay)
The ones that got away (wordplay)
E·1+S·1+C·3+A·1+P·3+E·1+E·1+S·1 = 12 pts
escapers (12 points)
They run from prison
Performers like Houdini
Fugitives as from jail or captors
E·1+S·1+C·3+A·1+P·3+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 12 pts
escheats (13 points)
Property confiscations
'E is the one counsel warms to and grabs his property for the Crown (wordplay)
What the Crown gets if it does not play fair at last
E·1+S·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+A·1+T·1+S·1 = 13 pts
escolars (10 points)
Escolar
E·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+S·1 = 10 pts
escuages (11 points)
Escuage
E·1+S·1+C·3+U·1+A·1+G·2+E·1+S·1 = 11 pts
essences (10 points)
'E's in need of scenes for concentration
Extracts and perfumes
Ascetics go round clubs for spirits
E·1+S·1+S·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
etchants (13 points)
Etchant
E·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+T·1+S·1 = 13 pts
etchings (14 points)
Artistic impressions (wordplay)
Artistic impressions get chins wrong
Some of Whistler's works
E·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+S·1 = 14 pts
ethicals (13 points)
Ethical
E·1+T·1+H·4+I·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+S·1 = 13 pts
eucaines (10 points)
Eucaine
E·1+U·1+C·3+A·1+I·1+N·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
eucharis (13 points)
A flowering plant
E·1+U·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+I·1+S·1 = 13 pts
euclases (10 points)
Euclase
E·1+U·1+C·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
eucrites (10 points)
Eucrite
E·1+U·1+C·3+R·1+I·1+T·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
eugenics (11 points)
Breeding to improve good qualities
Process of improving offspring
Hereditary-control movement
E·1+U·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+I·1+C·3+S·1 = 11 pts
evacuees (13 points)
People now in a safer location
Ones leaving before a storm
E·1+V·4+A·1+C·3+U·1+E·1+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
evictees (13 points)
Unsettled ones (wordplay)
Ones tossed out
Displaced persons
E·1+V·4+I·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+E·1+S·1 = 13 pts
evictors (13 points)
They kick out online winners (wordplay)
Chuckers-out of the sort vice corrupted
They send out letters
E·1+V·4+I·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 13 pts
exacters (17 points)
Exacter
E·1+X·8+A·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
exactors (17 points)
The former cast were so demanding
Tax collectors
People who've retired from treading the boards are demanding types
E·1+X·8+A·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excerpts (19 points)
Passages (of book)
Selected parts of longer works
Contents of a digest.
E·1+X·8+C·3+E·1+R·1+P·3+T·1+S·1 = 19 pts
excesses (17 points)
Perhaps XSSS make too much sound
Acts of unrestrained hedonism
Immoderate behavior
E·1+X·8+C·3+E·1+S·1+S·1+E·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excimers (19 points)
Excimer
E·1+X·8+C·3+I·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 19 pts
exciples (19 points)
Exciple
E·1+X·8+C·3+I·1+P·3+L·1+E·1+S·1 = 19 pts
exciters (17 points)
Theme-park rides, often
They'll pump you up
They'll get you going
E·1+X·8+C·3+I·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excitons (17 points)
Exciton
E·1+X·8+C·3+I·1+T·1+O·1+N·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excitors (17 points)
Excitor
E·1+X·8+C·3+I·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
exclaims (19 points)
Says "Bah!" or "Ah!"
Cries out in climaxes
Dreadful climaxes elicit cries
E·1+X·8+C·3+L·1+A·1+I·1+M·3+S·1 = 19 pts
exclaves (20 points)
Parts of a country separated from the rest
Old grottos bordering lake cut off areas of country
E·1+X·8+C·3+L·1+A·1+V·4+E·1+S·1 = 20 pts
excludes (18 points)
Exclude
E·1+X·8+C·3+L·1+U·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 18 pts
excretes (17 points)
Goes, in a way
Eliminates waste
Former girlfriends all over Mediterranean island perspires
E·1+X·8+C·3+R·1+E·1+T·1+E·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excursus (17 points)
Narrative digression
Dissertation added to main body of book or chapter
Discussion added to main body of book or chapter
E·1+X·8+C·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+U·1+S·1 = 17 pts
excusers (17 points)
Excuser
E·1+X·8+C·3+U·1+S·1+E·1+R·1+S·1 = 17 pts
executes (17 points)
Carries out and legally kills
Carries out something
Runs, as a program
E·1+X·8+E·1+C·3+U·1+T·1+E·1+S·1 = 17 pts
exocarps (19 points)
Exocarp
E·1+X·8+O·1+C·3+A·1+R·1+P·3+S·1 = 19 pts
exscinds (18 points)
Cuts out.
Cuts out
E·1+X·8+S·1+C·3+I·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 18 pts
extincts (17 points)
Extinct
E·1+X·8+T·1+I·1+N·1+C·3+T·1+S·1 = 17 pts
extracts (17 points)
Passages taken from, say, books
Cook's flavorings
Fishes out of watery concentrations
E·1+X·8+T·1+R·1+A·1+C·3+T·1+S·1 = 17 pts

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