| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ENGINEERING | Contriving | |
| EKING | Contriving to make a living | |
| CONTRIVANCE | The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. | |
| MATCHMAKING | Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman. | |
| PREMEDITATION | The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought. | |
| INVENTION | The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. | |