[Political Junkie Too]

Tricky. I took me more than five minutes. I started with the one-letter word and the two-letter word before it. Playing with that got me the fourth and fifth words. I took a guess at CKW, and that got me the first word. The rest was slowly pieced together after that.

-PJ

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I started with KCT, going through my mental list of possible 3-letter words to find one that had both second and third letters that could possibly serve as double letters in CTTJ and BTCCZ, and at the same time have first and 3rd letters that could serve side-by-side in JKTU. Found a fit pretty quickly and that gave me enough letters in all the remaining words to fill in the blanks.