| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| AMOK | Needlessly | |
| SENSELESSLY | Needlessly | |
| GRATUITOUSLY | Needlessly | |
| CAVIL | Argue needlessly | |
| FANCYFREE | Someone who is needlessly anxious | |
| BATTOLOGIZE | To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. | |
| GAG | Choke on a joke when needlessly engaged | |
| GADDING | Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. | |
| BUTCHERING | The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. | |
| SCHOLASTIC | Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal. | |