| A posh creation rewritten as an original expression |
to coin a phrase |
| All going one way, leading another way |
ALIGNED |
| American jerk |
YANK |
| Appearing in gloom, unromantic peak in Scotland |
MUNRO |
| As are some soccer players, dropped, then paid |
left-footed |
| Attempt joke |
CRACK |
| Become rotten, as chopped vegetables etc may have? |
gone to pot |
| Business in ashes, refinery vacated |
INDUSTRY |
| Cheese in hamper, we hear? |
FETA |
| China in place, or plastic |
PORCELAIN |
| Crawling bug silences cat that's skittish |
scale insect |
| Cutting item first removed from entire satirical magazine |
hole punch |
| Dance a good way with expression of support |
FARANDOLE |
| Dull in colour, worker surplus to requirements |
REDUNDANT |
| Evidence of bigamy mumbo jumbo? |
double dutch |
| First of Catholics welcomed by two boys from St Peter's Church, say |
BASILICAN |
| Front part of animal in square hole, did you say? |
FOREPAW |
| Genuinely irritated if I had to go without nicotine, initially |
in good faith |
| Good day with copper in conversation? |
see you |
| Ice hardened, sphere enclosed |
SORBET |
| Industrialist ultimately uncertain about an American jeweller |
TIFFANY |
| Information in every direction |
NEWS |
| Interest rate initially intolerable coming off tracker — might one be in a jam? |
APRICOT |
| Iranian lost on tour of Australia, returned in some state |
ARIZONIAN |
| Island a bit windy, dock accessed via gates |
tidal basin |
| Laborious, as is sentiment, for example? |
time-consuming |
| Leader in Augustus wearing clothes — these? |
TOGAS |
| Lion heading for nervous bird |
HERON |
| Looking at money in gold boxes |
EYING |
| Loot left for grinch |
SPOILSPORT |
