| 31 across not in in the red |
ROUTED |
| Academician as a rule from scratch |
RAKING |
| Acquiescent at having left work |
RESIGNED |
| Be a dear, by the sound of it, back there |
BEHIND |
| Blow that play! |
TEMPEST |
| Does this sound more amphibious? That's it! |
NEUTER |
| End the quarrel, even if it's only fiction |
MAKEITUP |
| Fed up at last at not being the attacker |
DEFENDING |
| Frightful limb at last |
ALARM |
| Had a get-together |
HUDDLED |
| He would love to turn up in a circus with Pa in it |
SORE |
| Ho! Sent crooked but is straight |
HONEST |
| Indians in the picture with us forbidding it |
WESTERN |
| Join the two of them together |
COUPLE |
| Likewise, the Times of the South |
SAGES |
| Long to be in the water (4) |
EELS |
| Make sense of a Christmastime poem? |
DECODE |
| No light matter to be in command (4) |
LEAD |