| Help, Mr Morse! |
SOS |
| In mood for aggressive action |
MILITANT |
| Inflates like colloquial toffs |
SWELLS |
| Instruct, enlighten |
TEACH |
| Irish head of government |
TAOISEACH |
| It's not vegetable or mineral |
ANIMAL |
| Left high and dry, deserted |
STRANDED |
| Makes dirty, contaminates |
POLLUTES |
| Neuralgia of hip and thigh |
SCIATICA |
| Old Iran |
PERSIA |
| Old Nick, Lucifer or Beelzebub |
SATAN |
| Pepsi-Cola for bishops' kind of business |
EPISCOPAL |
| Shoddy and worthless |
TRASHY |
| Slangily crazy or scatterbrained |
SCATTY |
| Small cabbage from Brussels? |
SPROUT |
| Start or take up again |
RESUME |
| Subject to limitations |
RESTRICT |