| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SPIRIT | Mettle | |
| SPUNK | Pluck; spirit; mettle | |
| METAL | Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle. | |
| METTLED | Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire. | |
| SELF-METTLE | Inborn mettle or courage; one's own temper. | |
| DISMETTLED | Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. | |
| PRANCE | To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. | |
| HIGH-METTLED | Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed. | |
| GALLANT | A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. | |
| PRIDE | Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. | |
| -SOME | ... like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of... | |