Talk:Behold the Centurions (Eight of Spades)/@comment-49.184.212.109-20200112065853

There are a number of solutions here that include words that are almost archaic or definitely not in common use.

The solutions to

PUNGENT

SEQUIN

SCALING

ILLUSTRATION - BOTH these answers are extremely obscure words

are all particularly bad and will be extremely difficult to presume.

There are also other combinations like

SEQUIN/DETESTER and SCALING/HARPER

that are much more sound and produce common answers.

SEQUESTER -> DETAIN

SCALPER -> HARPING

Finally, the keyword is very hard to deduce from the clue.