| Leave ground, free transport being withdrawn |
LIFTOFF |
| Looking embarrassed, slipping up about hard, misleading clue |
REDHERRING |
| Novelist's forbidding reading aloud |
STERNE |
| One flies flags |
BUNTING |
| One in tears left, bound for slaver |
SLOBBER |
| One pleading desperately for operatic title role |
BEGGAR |
| One receiving dividends is concerned with new bank |
RENTIER |
| Payment conditions are negotiable |
CONSIDERATION |
| Policeman locking chambers where poacher may have been held |
MANTRAP |
| Proceed after fault found in court book |
RESERVE |
| Reduce energy and run gently |
LOPE |
| Some music daughter arranged for reception |
TUNED |
| Somehow reproduce sequence of actions |
PROCEDURE |
| Thick coat will be finished in one second |
IMPASTO |
| This better offer is final |
STARTINGPRICE |