| Affair involving one office task? |
FILING |
| Cooked pasties almost cold and free from germs |
ASEPTIC |
| Cut in tax expected |
AXE |
| Delay that is produced by slips maybe |
LINGERIE |
| Distress when train set is broken |
STRAITEN |
| Dog daughter kept in Dorset town |
POODLE |
| Famous mistress having husband a poet |
HAMILTON |
| Framework of invention found in back of the box |
ESPALIER |
| Garden girl heading off to a big town -- such boldness! |
AUDACITY |
| Intellectual type -- for example, good school leader |
EGGHEAD |
| Mary's painting unusual insect |
PRAYINGMANTIS |
| Not moving? That could be shocking |
STATIC |
| One gets into stir now and then |
PRISONVISITOR |
| One pain hard to get rid of |
ACE |