| A small quantity of money -- one no good's taking it |
ASSUMING |
| Bill polite about set of books |
NOTICE |
| Businesses are about to be cutting choices |
OPERATIONS |
| Came close to bird behind daughter |
EMULATED |
| Doing front crawl, perhaps -- length for women losing weight |
SLIMMING |
| Ended nice novel welcoming writer's lack of constraint |
INDEPENDENCE |
| Flowers lifted with spades |
ROSES |
| Fruit that's rotten coming out of one's mouth? |
UGLI |
| Haul up fish, we're told |
RAISE |
| Have confidence in removing leader in charge of the country |
RUSTIC |
| Her cats regularly departed after snake's appearance |
ASPECT |
| Hostile female entering inn, rudely dancing |
UNFRIENDLY |
| I list armies fighting, concealing current resemblances |
SIMILARITIES |
| Nobleman exercises with the Queen |
PEER |
| Nods off seconds after Prime Minister's turned up |
SLEEPS |