| A ludicrous or humiliating failure, complete mess |
FIASCO |
| A Scottish child |
BAIRN |
| Always on time for appointments |
PUNCTUAL |
| An official decree from Russia |
UKASE |
| Beer procured in sales |
ALE |
| Bring something unpleasant on oneself (5) |
INCUR |
| By the way or in passing, as in chess move |
ENPASSANT |
| Can be had or obtained, in stock |
AVAILABLE |
| Chaste kind of swindlers |
CHEATS |
| Choosing or accepting ideas etc from many sources |
ECLECTIC |
| Comedian's assistant, butt of jokes |
STOOGE |
| Confuses in saddle |
ADDLES |
| Employee who does all kinds of work |
FACTOTUM |
| Engage in pugilism |
BOX |
| Feeling irritated and out of sorts |
PEEVED |
| Female egg-cells |
OVA |
| Fiction's Lord of the Apes |
TARZAN |
| From the beginning - in Latin |
ABINITIO |