| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| GRIMNESS | Severity | |
| GRAVITY | Severity | |
| STERNNESS | Severity | |
| RIGOUR | Severity | |
| RIGIDITY | Severity; rigor. | |
| BUDGENESS | Sternness; severity. | |
| SEVERITIES | Of Severity | |
| MITIGATE | Lessen in severity | |
| EASE | Lessen in severity | |
| ABATES | Lessens in severity | |
| ABATE | Lessen in severity | |
| RELENT | Relax one’s severity | |
| TYRANNY | Severity; rigor; inclemency. | |
| AUSTERENESS | Severity; strictness; austerity. | |
| INTEMPERATENESS | Severity of weather; inclemency. | |
| TORVITY | Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness. | |
| RIGORISM | Severity, as of style, or the like. | |
| RELAX | To abate in severity; to become less rigorous. | |
| FROST | Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. | |
| RECRUDESCENCY | Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. | |
| HYPERCRITICISE | To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously. | |
| SEVERITY | Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test. | |
| DISTEMPER | Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. | |
| MORDACITY | The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. | |
| OPPRESSION | That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. | |