SO SHOE ME!
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
February, 2017
Esther Bonilla Read

Each of these 14 hints leads to an answer that is also a type or style of shoe. For example, a WORK SHIRKER is a LOAFER. 

1. Symbol of stubbornness
2. Lowdown scoundrels
3. Political party's declaration
4. Sudden reversal
5. Gas stations have several. You have one.
6. Brit's apartment
7. Plumbing problem
8. Small dagger
9. Shape of an axe blade
10. _____  _____  Smith is a generic name
11. Exclusive English university
12. Victim of banana-peel gag
13. Cat burglar, for example
14. Unceremonious dismissal, with "the"

Answers:

1. Mule
2. Heels
3. Platform
4. Flip-flop
5. Pump
6. Flat
7. Clog
8. Stiletto
9. Wedge
10. Mary Jane
11. Oxford
12. Slipper
13. Sneaker
15. Boot