| No Verne? No Tintin comic? No meddling! |
NONINTERVENTION |
| Offend greatly at first and confess |
SING |
| Passionate desire to party in country interminably retreating |
ARDOUR |
| Ponders initial loss by customs |
USES |
| Poor show? So do encores! Be careful what you say |
CHOOSEONESWORDS |
| Quarter taken in by the palmist's curl of the lip |
SNEER |
| Remarkably few real creature comforts |
WELFARE |
| River with unpleasant smell: note the course |
RHUMB |
| Sailor is withering about passenger |
SEAFARER |
| Settled to live as a theologian, bounded by eastern sea |
EMBEDDED |
| Squinting, start off with back lanes |
ALLEYED |
| Stays, as of old, for a drink |
STIFFENER |
| Token of love interrupting part of service: touching! |
COUPON |
| Wimp accepts success that's due to formal dress |
WHITETIE |