Patriarch, stiffly correct, reversed corruption consisting of self-importance |
PRIMOGENITOR |
Perhaps rescue by midwife is to reduce workload |
LABOURSAVING |
Policy on past attribution |
BYLINE |
Procrastinator's motto: I'm devoted to my image |
IDOLATER |
Quiet seven days after initial upturns |
MEEK |
Rejection of manuscript I carry, very much upset |
OSTRACISM |
Ring to extend and flourish, which bride may wear |
ORANGEBLOSSOM |
Rock containing olivine, barium and tar |
BASALT |
Scandinavian clipping edges of Polish shrub |
DAPHNE |
Scramble up ravine in Andean country |
PERUVIAN |
Separated with tact in speech |
DISCRETE |
Shanty about popular salt, for example |
SEASONING |
Shillings with silver goods from burglary |
SWAG |
Something launched enterprise I mostly directed |
PROJECTILE |
Spooky time in my grave |
MYSTERIOUS |
Spooner's by float needed if ship sinks |
LIFEBOAT |
Suggestive muse mostly seen from behind |
LEWD |
Tequila finally yielded its source |
AGAVE |
This material to dispose of occurred when splitting kernel with energy |
NUCLEARWASTE |
Timeless way drama acted might get one given out |
ACADEMYAWARD |
To eavesdrop I wager is wrong |
EARWIG |
To take top off, I walked up on gallery |
DECAPITATE |
Turns in the road? |
STREETTHEATRE |
Unauthorised occupation of preserve in Crouch End for gig |
SQUATTING |
Vase I overturned (don't tell!) in hasty entrance |
INRUSH |
Vegetable tree cultivated in Wellington? |
BEETROOT |
Watts I should see in mechanical device |
WIDGET |
Wordless, one tucked into delicacy |
TACIT |
Wrong, say, very familiar but having no name? |
ILLEGITIMATE |
Youth leader wears comfortable shoes to run dangerous course |
SLIPPERYSLOPE |