| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| EXCLUDE | Prevent from entering | |
| FEND | To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows. | |
| BUCKLER | A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. | |
| STRAINER | ... for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid. ... | |
| GAG | Prevent from speaking | |
| KEEP | Prevent, ... from | |
| LOCKSOUT | Bars from entering | |
| PRECLUDE | Prevent something from happening | |
| DISINHERIT | Deliberately prevent child from succeeding | |
| SIDELINE | Prevent from taking part in | |
| QUOIN | To prevent casks from rolling. | |
| INTERCEPT | Prevent from continuing to a destination | |
| GATEKEEPER | One who prevents undesirables from entering | |
| LOSE | To prevent from gaining or obtaining. | |