Brickwork

Enter the solutions to the clues in their numbered layers of the wall. Each word must be an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus one letter.

1 Saved from danger 2 Lessen 3 Coarse, unrefined 4 Colour of unbleached linen 5 Dog 6 Ringlet 7 Sadistic, brutal 8 Turn sour, congeal 9 Moved aburptly forward