| Live-in nanny |
AUPAIR |
| Long story in Swahili a drag |
ILIAD |
| Luther's reformed cheat |
HUSTLER |
| Male waterfowl |
DRAKE |
| Mum clothes a nice man in purple |
MAGENTA |
| One making the cut? |
KNIFE |
| Opponent |
ENEMY |
| Purplish red |
MAGENTA |
| Recede |
EBB |
| Severely plain |
AUSTERE |
| Sharp cutlery item |
KNIFE |
| Show first tot of whisky? |
DRAMA |
| Simple Australian tree chopped up |
AUSTERE |
| Some bearing gift for music |
EAR |
| Some Nazarene: mysterious adversary |
ENEMY |
| Sparkle |
GLINT |
| Stun gun |
TASER |
| Stunner posed again looking northward |
TASER |
| Swindler |
HUSTLER |
| Take food into cosy place: most tidy |
NEATEST |
| Thwart |
FRUSTRATE |
| To laud in a new excess of flattery |
ADULATION |
| Treasure |
CHERISH |
| Treat furs crumpled in foil |
FRUSTRATE |
| Unbeliever |
INFIDEL |
| Vegetable to drain needing stock |
PUMPKIN |
| VIP turned up on board |
NOTABLE |
| Where Carthaginians triumphed Scots can't |
CANNAE |
