| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SOOTHING | Comforting | |
| HUG | Comforting hold | |
| AMENITIES | Comforting facilities | |
| COMFORTABLY | In a comfortable or comforting manner. | |
| CONSOLATORY | Of a consoling or comforting nature. | |
| COMFORTER | The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers. | |
| NEPENTHE | A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. | |
| VISIT | To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. | |