| Most like The Merry Widow being terribly stagey |
GAYEST |
| Oppressive old tyrant leading America |
ONEROUS |
| Outlaw’s unfeeling ring captures northbound travellers |
DESPERADO |
| Peace group requests soldiers possibly to protect brief retreat in quarrel |
unpleasantness |
| Principal substituting old boy for a family man |
MOBSTER |
| Reason males are excluded from rummage around |
ARGUE |
| Rolling fat? |
spare tyre |
| Short cannon’s middle-of-the-road rating |
MORTAR |
| Something ideal for jamming broadcast, in short |
CURRANT |
| Theatrical set, scary in play |
ACTRESSY |
| Trader’s tip diluted small change |
TWEAK |
| Trivial problem to fall between aristocrat and monarch |
no-brainer |
| Unaware of past uprising as some of America is, en masse |
AMNESIAC |
| Vegetable: wrap up portion |
SHALLOT |
| Watched and heard the writer with no hair |
EYEBALLED |