| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ATTACKER | Assailant | |
| VIOLENT | An assailant. | |
| ATTEMPTER | An assailant; also, a temper. | |
| ASSAULTER | One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant. | |
| INVADER | One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder. | |
| AGGRESSOR | The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. | |
| REPEL | To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. | |
| OFFENSIVE | Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. | |
| TENABLE | Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. | |