| 'A miss is as good as a ....' |
MILE |
| A French cake |
GATEAU |
| A malevolent Scottish water spirit like a horse |
KELPIE |
| Able, proficient |
CAPABLE |
| Activities concerned with boosting self-esteem |
EGOTRIPS |
| All united-males only? |
TOAMAN |
| An informal Irish illegal drinking house |
SHEBEEN |
| An intimidatory warning |
THREAT |
| Being disputed or discussed |
ATISSUE |
| Checks or reads list one by one |
ITEMISES |
| City of the Tagus |
LISBON |
| Creature that lives off others |
PARASITE |
| Deprived of feeling |
NUMB |
| Dickens novel 'Barnaby .....' |
RUDGE |
| Dogma or principle |
TENET |
| Equal to, on equal footing |
ONAPAR |
| Excessive interest in obscene things |
SCATOLOGY |
| Far beneath, like Australia |
DOWNUNDER |