Meat served up in function during autumn month |
VENISON |
Merchants persist in repackaging gift |
CHRISTMASPRESENT |
New writer enters single short poem in book |
SONSANDLOVERS |
North African people get about, crossing Egypt, once |
TUAREG |
Notice most of the soldiers retreating |
SIGHT |
Novel – second by English author just over half completed |
MOBYDICK |
Number from musical Love Me Tender (second and third parts) sung flat during chorus |
SOMEENCHANTEDEVENING |
Order food about end of morning (noon) |
ALIGNMENT |
Order leader out of European capital, heading westwards for Italian city |
BERGAMO |
Perform song in harmonious arrangement |
PLAYACT |
Person hoarding things? Bet one will be placed on a charge |
ACCUMULATOR |
Playing in nets with bat, showing self-restraint |
ABSTINENT |
Promise to get up and finish off kitchen sink |
DROWN |
Put in other words, tutor's not one to criticise severely |
TRANSLATE |
Recently-released prisoner's words in this musical form? |
CANTATA |
Release record reaching number two in charts in time, right? |
DISCHARGE |
Resumed plying trade after holiday |
RESTARTED |
Say how to introduce retired hack? |
EXPRESS |
Scotsman's shout of surprise, eating into cheese roll |
BRIOCHE |
Shifting joke books about |
TONUP |
Staff depart to get fruit – see comment at 31 ac |
MANGO |
Stroke us with tips of the fingers? They might |
MASSEUSES |
Teenagers often scathing at first about opera |
TOSCA |
Tentatively try something new without entirely taking the plunge (3,4,3,2,3,5) |
DIPONESTOEINTHEWATER |
Thickset criminal has succeeded in rural areas |
THESTICKS |
This writer, when entering, ahead of the competition to be poet laureate |
MASEFIELD |
Tobacco tin, square |
SNOUT |
Today son's staying in to lunch? That won't be a problem |
NOSWEAT |
Tool one has at one's fingertips? |
NAILSET |
Ugly house by river in a London borough |
ABHORRENT |
What could be senator's crime against the state? |
HIGHTREASON |