| Accompaniment at mealtime |
SIDEDISH |
| Branch of mathematics |
GEOMETRY |
| Excuse |
ALIBI |
| Explosive invented in 9th-century China |
GUNPOWDER |
| From Des Moines? |
IOWAN |
| Fruit or meat dish |
PIE |
| Grit sweeper on? (anag) — it makes driving easier |
POWERSTEERING |
| Hergé's adventurous young Belgian reporter |
TINTIN |
| In a lackadaisical fashion |
HALFHEARTEDLY |
| Italian painter of the Venetian school, patronised by Philip II of Spain |
TITIAN |
| Labourer |
WORKMAN |
| Misprints in a book |
ERRATA |
| Peak |
ACME |
