| 'Cheap digs', opined resentful Spooner |
BEDSITTER |
| Cyclisme à vélo? |
LOVE |
| Baffled by sensational wordplay with nine letters missing |
ATALOSS |
| Boatman catches a crab — strangely shocking |
MACABRE |
| Boatman — to relish, ultimately, or detest |
ABHOR |
| Change of direction in match |
RIGHT |
| Cleaner to hearten lady? Quite the opposite |
DETER |
| Cruets of liquid sugar |
FRUCTOSE |
| Evergreen version of pea, encased in pot |
JAPANESECEDAR |
| First to try lead part with singers in audition: they get a good reception |
TVANTENNAS |
| Game animal, endangered (about the last in Punjab) in organised slaughter |
CUPANDBALL |
| Get to the top on Tyneside? |
SCALENE |
| Herbs: bases for sauces, say |
RUES |
| Initially sleepy, got up, then tea: in winter you many need more than one of these |
SNOWCHAIN |
| Initially, Alexander's charming |
ACUTE |
