| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SUBTLE | Tenuous | |
| ETHEREAL | Tenuous | |
| GASEOUS | Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. | |
| TENUOUS | Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument. | |
| TENUIOUS | Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. | |
| SPIRIT | Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities. | |
| SUBTILE | Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven. | |
| WIRE | To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. | |
| SPIRITUOUS | Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. | |
| TENUITY | The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair. | |