| Is that all that's left of the firewood? |
ASH |
| Made a speech of the alternative to a boy |
ORATED |
| Managed to get into the art of being utter |
ARRANT |
| No future start for 9 across |
PASTINESS |
| Not bound to be as Ireland was |
FREESTATE |
| Not in in the red and soundly beaten |
ROUTED |
| Not ruddy well for the dead, or see 16 down |
PALLOR |
| Poetically, perhaps, or the contrary |
INVERSE |
| Sounds like an old crock that'll kill you |
ALLIGATOR |
| Symbolically, a CID matter |
HCL |
| They're all in a pack |
FOXHOUNDS |
| They're all like this one in 19 across |
FRUITTREE |
| They're beating in a pack |
HEARTS |
| Well, that's where this comes from |
OIL |
| Whale of a difficult lot of trees |
ORCHARD |
| What a fuss to have loved to get it red! |
ADO |