| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ROLES | Acting parts | |
| PROFITEROLES | Gain excellent start with acting parts in Croquembouche | |
| DIRECT-ACTING | Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. | |
| DOUBLE | Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. | |
| BOY | To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. | |
| RESIST | ...om fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or ... | |
| PRO- | ...un, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts. ... | |
| TIDE | ... latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium... | |