| Add humour to difficult situation, heading off doom almost entirely |
LIGHTEN |
| Alert, as you'd expect the Marines to be? |
ALARM |
| American composer, person almost enthralling both sides |
BERLIN |
| Astronomical measure taking pages in work on hydrogen filters, possibly |
DOPPLERSHIFT |
| Away to finish revolt |
OFFEND |
| Book, sale item gent returned in South-Western city |
BRISTOL |
| Books, in current form, adopted by generous visionary |
FANTASIST |
| Fine drink, with second consumed? Not so |
FALSE |
| Fixed gaze from detective not favouring discretion |
EYECONTACT |
| Flapper beginning to dabble in sport? No great amount |
GOLDFINCH |
| Flower covering half of lake? That's probable |
LIKELY |
| German design centre's expression of annoyance about University linking to Australia |
BAUHAUS |
| Good storyteller held back object of quest |
GRAIL |
| Greek island runs hot with poems by Sappho? |
RHODES |
| Leader of Spain is repeatedly collaring European wets |
SISSIES |
