| Achieve independence, being autodidactic? |
BEONESOWNMASTER |
| Advocates quietly abandoning eliminatory processes |
URGES |
| Aim relating to external phenomena |
OBJECTIVE |
| Bundle of fibres in cheek? |
NERVE |
| Clash over a hard Asian ruler |
RAJAH |
| Contrition about increasingly restricting son |
REMORSE |
| Dam northern river, say |
WEIR |
| Decorous behaviour appears to cross boundaries |
SEEMLINESS |
| Deprived female lacking Basque headgear |
BERET |
| Endlessly bemoaning downfall |
RUIN |
| Existing exponents - those in authority? |
THEPOWERSTHATBE |
| Graduate wearing woven cloth is American footballer |
LINEMAN |
| Her mystery mostly involved a mediocre poet |
RHYMESTER |
| Irrepressible soldiers I found in quiet setting |
RESILIENT |
| It goes back a long time, inserted in subtropical headgear |
TERAI |
