| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| BAILIFF | Sheriff’s officer | |
| CONSERVATOR | An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff. | |
| VISCOUNT | An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county. | |
| REEVE | An officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. | |
| BAILIE | An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman. | |
| POUNDAGE | The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. | |
| MARSHAL | A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, an... | |