| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SCHEMES | Plots | |
| BEDS | Plots | |
| STORYLINES | Books’ plots | |
| INTRIGUES | Plots secretly | |
| CONSPIRES | Plots something evil | |
| CHARTS | Plots a course | |
| NAVIGATES | Plots a course | |
| PLOTFUL | Abounding with plots. | |
| PLOT-PROOF | Secure against harm by plots. | |
| APPLOT | To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. | |
| DISPURPOSE | To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. | |
| PLAT | To lay out in plats or plots, as ground. | |
| PLOTTER | One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. | |
| INTRICATE | Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. | |
| PARTERRE | An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. | |