The wordwit in Saturday's Spectrum had the first half of sixteen battles, with the warning that "Only buffs will score more than half".
I got one wrong (the last one).
(Some answers have two words.)
GETTY
STALI
WATE
PASSCH
BUNKE
KHAR
MARA
SARA
MID
VER
MAFE
CORA
THEB
NAS
ACT
ZA
no subject
Date: 2011-09-04 01:16 pm (UTC)