| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LAGGING | Lingering | |
| PERSISTENT | Lingering | |
| AFTERTASTE | Lingering tang | |
| DRAWL | Slow lingering speech | |
| CHRONIC | Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. | |
| KILLINGTIME | Lingering idly when assassination is to take place | |
| DELAY | A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
| LINGERING | Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. | |
| LONG | Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. | |
| LINGER | To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed. | |
| MALADY | Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. | |