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Initial letter
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Clue
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Word
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A
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Insecticide; starts with an anagram of "Cape"
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Acephate
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B
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Cheeky remarks made in reply to someone in authority
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Backchat
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C
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A castle, in France
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Chateau
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D
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Short word for the Java plum, beginning with the French term for "of the"
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Duhat
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E
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Adjective which means: expressing something forcibly and clearly, as when we put text in bold or underline it
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Emphatic
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F
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Old word for the wheatear or stonechat, starting with a word pertaining to unused, ploughed land
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Fallowchat
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G
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Very short word of Indian origin, meaning steps leading to water; also used for some mountain areas in India
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Ghat
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H
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Detest
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Hate
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I
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Situated within a lymph vessel
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Intralymphatic
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J
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Agate jasper - the answer is a rough portmanteau of those two words
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Jaspachate
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K
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Variant of qat, a drug which comes from an East African plant
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Khat
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L
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Adjective; pertaining to lymphs
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Lymphatic
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M
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An Indian honorific, meaning wise or great individual, usually given to Gandhi as a title
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Mahatma
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N
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Songbird which descends the trunks of trees
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Nuthatch
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O
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Biological type of chemical compound containing phosphorous
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Organophosphate
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P
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Thai musical ensemble, a short word whose start means a small fruit seed
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Piphat
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Q
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Wolverine; a combination of a word meaning fast and another meaning to emerge from an egg
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Quickhatch
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R
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Andean plant - the clue is: rodent, no matter which one
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Rhatany
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S
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To smash into smithereens
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Shatter
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T
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Chemical containing three groups of phosphorous combined with oxygen
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Triphosphate
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U
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Not having a roof made of straw
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Unthatched
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V
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The wood of a South American tree; starts with a word for wine and ends in a term meaning company
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Vinhatico
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W
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Common question word, meaning which
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What
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X
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Chemical, usually yellow, used in the production of cellophane
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Xanthate
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Y
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Armenian capital in 200 BC; an anagram of "Shaved any rat", with the headgear at the end of the word and a conjunction in the middle
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Yervandashat
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Z
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Town on the Lena on the outskirts of Yakutsk, one of the coldest places in the world; a short name ending in something affirmative
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Zhatay
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