SATURDAY’S SOLUTIONS

CONFIRMED confer, confide, confirm, conifer, deform, fend, fermion, fern, fiend, find, finder, fine, fined, finer, fino, fire, fired, firm, firmed, fond, fonder, force, forced, ford, fore, form, formed, formic, fried, friend, from, frond, infer, info, inform, informed, rife.