| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SPLITHAIRS | Quibble | |
| PREVARICATE | Quibble | |
| QUIBBLED | Of Quibble | |
| QUIBBLING | Of Quibble | |
| QUILLET | Subtilty; nicety; quibble. | |
| QUIDDITY | A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. | |
| QUIRK | A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. | |
| AMBAGES | A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. | |
| DODGE | To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. | |
| SALVE | To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over. | |
| PUN | To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble. | |