Top Spots (Unpub)

Spot
Tops
Spots
Stops
Spot on
Top spot
In a spot
A ranking
To lend to
On the spot
Hits the spot
A small drink
To cover thinly
Spotty Muldoon
A patch or blotch
X marks the spot
A place or location
To recognize talent
Short for ‘spotlight’
A specific banknote
Dick and Jane’s dog
An anagram for ‘stop’
Place for a show item
A pip on a card or dice
‘Tops’ spelled backwards
Earth flax and also amianthus
A very small amount of anything
An anagram for ‘opts,’ and for ‘post’ 
A verb meaning ’to see,’ ‘to catch a glimpse ’
‘Spaat’: a kind of spar or a boom in Dutch tongue
A trading system in one or another of the stock markets
To help a gymnastics performer avoid injuring him- or herself
“you hurry to a spot that’s just a dot on the map”: “The Tender Trap” lyrics
In association football, point within penalty area from which goal kicks are taken