| Politician interrupting rises nervously, smiles coyly |
SIMPERS |
| Powerful bishop and pawn on row |
PONTIFF |
| Provided during the French Revolution? How long a thing lasts! |
LIFECYCLE |
| Relative, kind to conserve energy |
NIECE |
| Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time |
PIECEMEAL |
| School subject in his term out in the outskirts of Coventry |
CHEMISTRY |
| Simple goal -- mine at home |
TAPIN |
| Sloshed, I initially fell over in opera |
FIDELIO |
| Snappy, one parking, after pressure is applied, in New York |
NIPPY |
| Soldier on exercises runs hard |
PERSEVERE |
| Sovereign measure |
RULER |
| Strain within small company to get capital |
CAIRO |
| Timidity of head following fling |
SHYNESS |
| Twentieth-century force ready, prepared to engage Royal Marines |
REDARMY |
