| Hint | Verb |
| To examine or test | |
| To search or seek | |
| To disagree angrily | |
| To raise trivial objections | |
| To pass initial or preliminary contest | |
| To determine number or extent of something | |
| To make more rapid | |
| To repeat a brief passage or excerpt from | |
| To vanquish | |
| To isolate, confine or sequester | |
| To sew up between pieces of material | |
| To shake | |
| | Hint | Verb |
| To shake...perhaps in California | |
| To make silent | |
| To form a line while waiting | |
| To satisfy, especially thirst | |
| To stop, cease, or discontinue | |
| To ask or inquire | |
| To ask or inquire about | |
| To drink a beverage with hearty enjoyment | |
| To draw back, as with fear or pain | |
| To obtain (stone) from | |
| To put down or suppress completely | |
| To utter clever or witty remarks | |
| To utter the cry of a mallard | |
| To divide into four equal parts | |
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