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 Give up hope 2 Eight-legged creature 3 Group of lions 4 Disastrous 5 Expire 6 Prepare text for print 7 Attempted 8 Money paid into one’s bank account 9 Conned, swindled