| Merit for listener at pole |
EARN |
| Must roll eyes round cart |
TROLLEY |
| National song about a leader of authority, something disliked |
ANATHEMA |
| Outgoing hymn is like a slump |
RECESSIONAL |
| Prevent bishop making cutting remark |
BARB |
| Retribution disturbs St Jude's rest |
JUSTDESERTS |
| River agent, American, is rising star |
SUPERNOVA |
| Stress same ship capsized |
EMPHASIS |
| Strip of street round US city |
SLAT |
| Taken on by German, a German administrator |
MANAGER |
| Two thousand in diamonds, maybe, for top-level meeting |
SUMMIT |
| What strange instrument makes a tree? |
HAWTHORN |