Related Clues:

• Competent scholar embraced by non-drinker takes cover
• Sweet singer turning up to plug rubbish — this is flat
• Protective pad placed beneath plates at meals
• It protects the board from heated attacks
• Pill mother swallowed for protection at meal
• Protector from hot plates
• Unexciting Liberal Club set up something for diner
• Shoddy work includes misplaced blame for part of setting
• Mother brought in slab on which a plate rests
• Protector under plate
• Bill for the meal is lost by upset domestic for set menu presumably
• Protector from hot dishes
• Protection for furniture cut from suitable material
• Protection offered by stablemate?
• China's put out over this computer graduate's smuggled in