| Clue | Q-word | First Letter |
| A water conduit | |
| A bunch of flowers | |
| Pizarro or Cortés, e.g. | |
| A sugary rum cocktail | |
| Gentry rank below knight | |
| It is 440 Hz for middle A | |
| Absurd, ugly or unnatural | |
| A company's administrative center | |
| A person from Baghdad | |
| Cousin of the daffodil | |
| A small yellowish citrus fruit | |
| Very chatty | |
| Blood-sucking insect | |
| | Clue | Q-word | First Letter |
| NY-based stock exchange | |
| Off at an odd angle | |
| A person's body form | |
| Occurring every five years | |
| A mass for the dead | |
| A giant California tree | |
| Margarita ingredient | |
| Being the only one | |
| To overcome in battle | |
| Under-ocean seismic activity | |
| Portuguese jerked beef like charqui | |
| One from the US vis-a-vis Latin America | |
| In the style of French novelist Émile | |
| Heretic to Islamic Law | |
| Ha, cute try. | |
| There is a better term for these guys | |
| Just for you, Trip. | |
| Kid-influenced shift in cultural norms | |
| Obscure tribe | |
| Obscure gold coin | |
| Close, one more vowel to fix! | |
| In the style of American poet Walt | |
| Getting closer, now drop that H. | |
| From the same root, not exactly right | |
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