| Ate nothing around the end of June, then ate a lot |
FEASTED |
| Blue feathers |
DOWN |
| Boils spuds or pasta for relative to tuck into |
CARBUNCLES |
| Card acceptable in one half of Jersey |
JOKER |
| Cat eating a rat's head? Speak with it! |
LARYNX |
| Chairs for 27 rivals |
ROCKERS |
| Changing direction, vicar? Hesitate, then sign off |
REVERSING |
| Excuse used before the advent of phone messaging |
PRETEXT |
| Fly northwards with love and dance |
TANGO |
| For spies into mischief infiltrated by 'one taking orders', in a manner of speaking |
PRONUNCIATION |
| Glamour of biker escaping blitzkrieg, somehow |
GLITZ |
| Hugo Boss announcing no neckwear for a decade |
NINETIES |
| In hotel, gripped by a book |
ATHOME |
| Lean to one side and sneer, agitating the audience |
LISTENERS |
| Looked into dust storm, initially in equatorial desert |
STUDIED |