| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SMARTS | Stings | |
| BITES | Stings, as an insect | |
| STINGER | One who, or that which, stings. | |
| HORSEFLY | Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood. | |
| STING | Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach. | |
| SEA GINGER | A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore. | |