| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| QUALMS | Scruples | |
| SCRUPLER | One who scruples. | |
| STICK | To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. | |
| SCRUPLE | To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. | |
| SCRUOU-LIZE | To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples. | |
| DOUBTER | One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples. | |
| SUPERSTITIOUS | Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion. | |
| SEDUCTION | ... specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong... | |
| SUPERSTITION | ... Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites ... | |