| Text | Length |
| One of the weasels | 18 |
| Directional suffix | 18 |
| White-tailed eagle | 18 |
| Directional ending | 18 |
| White-tailed flier | 18 |
| Raptorial sea bird | 18 |
| Directional finish | 18 |
| Puzzler's bird | 18 |
| Scavenging seabird | 18 |
| Rapacious sea bird | 18 |
| It soars at shores | 18 |
| Greyish-brown bird | 18 |
| European sea eagle | 18 |
| East or west ender | 18 |
| Eagle of Greenland | 18 |
| Direction follower | 18 |
| Verdi title bandit | 18 |
| Fish-eating raptor | 18 |
| Eagle by the shore | 18 |
| Lough ___, Ireland | 18 |
| He fought Joe Gans | 18 |
| Graceful sea eagle | 18 |
| Donegal Bay feeder | 18 |
| Swooper by the sea | 18 |
| Powerful sea flyer | 18 |
| Pelagic fish-eater | 18 |
| Lough ___, in Eire | 18 |
| Flesh-eating eagle | 18 |
| Feathered piscator | 18 |
| Fish-eating eagles | 18 |
| Cousins of ospreys | 18 |
| White-tailed birds | 18 |
| Piscivorous fliers | 18 |
| Flying fish eaters | 18 |
| Fish-eating fliers | 18 |
| Shoreline swoopers | 18 |
| Kite's cousins | 18 |
| Kin of fish eagles | 18 |
| Fish-eating divers | 18 |
| Eagle-eyed raptors | 18 |
| Conductor Ansermet | 18 |
| Novelist Hemingway | 18 |
| Seton or Hemingway | 18 |
| Painter Meissonier | 18 |
| Hemingway or Seton | 18 |
| Automaker Maserati | 18 |
| Sabato or Maserati | 18 |
| Novelist Sábato | 18 |
| Che, to his mother | 18 |
| Che, more formally | 18 |
| Hemingway nickname | 18 |
| Tennessee ___ Ford | 18 |
| Kovacs of early TV | 18 |
| Entertainer Kovacs | 18 |
| Keebler spokes-elf | 18 |
| Cubs slugger Banks | 18 |
| Banks on a diamond | 18 |
| Nevers of Stanford | 18 |
| Muppet pal of Bert | 18 |
| Kovacs or Lombardi | 18 |
| Keebler elf leader | 18 |
| Hemingway, to pals | 18 |
| Bath-loving Muppet | 18 |
| Cube creator Rubik | 18 |
| Rubik of cube fame | 18 |
| Toy inventor Rubik | 18 |
| Toy designer Rubik | 18 |
| Cosmetician Laszlo | 18 |
| Conductor Dohnanyi | 18 |
| Flying fish-eaters | 18 |
| Relatives of kites | 18 |
| Bald eagle cousins | 18 |
| German painter Max | 18 |
| Surrealism pioneer | 18 |
| German dadaist Max | 18 |
| Dada collagist Max | 18 |
| Modern painter Max | 18 |
| Novelist Jünger | 18 |
| Leandro's love | 18 |
| Leandro's girl | 18 |
| Cockney's idol | 18 |
| Big man in Blighty | 18 |
| Back on the ranch? | 18 |
| Diminish gradually | 18 |
| Destroy by degrees | 18 |
| Become weatherworn | 18 |
| Wash away, as soil | 18 |
| Lose underpinnings | 18 |
| Destroy bit by bit | 18 |
| Wear away, as rock | 18 |
| Diminish, in a way | 18 |
| Become ground down | 18 |
| Wear away, as soil | 18 |
| Steadily wear away | 18 |
| Slowly lose ground | 18 |
| Diminish, as trust | 18 |
| Diminish over time | 18 |
| Diminish naturally | 18 |
| Deteriorate slowly | 18 |
| Became weatherworn | 18 |
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