THE IC FACTOR
Credit: The Word's The Thing
Louis D. Appel

Each of the clues below can be answered with a word ending in IC.

1. Memory aid device, as HOMES
2. Composed of elements drawn from different sources
3. Unimaginative, commonplace
4. Out of fashion or use (as certain words)
5. Blissfully happy
6. Stilted teaching, showing off one's knowledge
7. Surgery using pure oxygen at high pressure
8. Puzzling, hard to understand
9. Showing little or no emotion, despite hardship
10. Not saying much, of few words
11. Recurrence of an ancestral trait
12. Visionary, romantic, free-spirited
13. Weight-loss surgery
14. Cleansing, giving relief by expressing emotions
15. Generous in gifts to the arts and charitable causes

Answers:

1. Mnemonic
2. Eclectic
3. Prosaic
4. Archaic
5. Euphoric
6. Pedantic
7. Hyperbaric
8. Enigmatic
9. Stoic
10. Laconic
11. Atavistic
12. Quixotic
13. Bariatric
14. Cathartic
15. Philanthropic