| 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' - not according to this play (3,10,2,5,7) |
THEIMPORTANCEOFBEINGEARNEST |
| A little root, but far-reaching, we hear |
RADICLE |
| Affair initially affecting most of us radically |
AMOUR |
| Agency worker chap wooed |
TEMPTED |
| All the more, presumably, in spit of that |
NONETHELESS |
| Almost covering up sense organs, chap is myopic |
NEARSIGHTED |
| Article lads also put on - article vital to cover Casabianca (3,3,5,2,3,7,4) |
THEBOYSTOODONTHEBURNINGDECK |
| Asian intellectual has to live under cover |
TIBETAN |
| At the start, feeling just horrible |
FRIGHTFUL |
| Attempt at concealment ended in a hole |
COVERUP |
| Before buying a garment, you should see how far you can go |
TRYITON |
| Blunder, placing queen on king |
ERR |
| Boy, when embracing girl, makes notes |
SONATINAS |
| Brutish man, a politician, put in prison |
CALIBAN |
| Carnation - decorative loop seen in the middle |
PICOTEE |
| City's last development is pulsating |
SYSTALTIC |
| Classical novel |
ROMAN |
| Complete layout without employing female wimp |
DOORMAT |
| Composer - fine German composer |
SCHONBERG |
| Crime for which minister suffers 54 |
ARSON |
| Dared to venture right inside the earth |
DURST |
| Did I take care of one tinker? |
DIDICOI |
| Distorted pictures of curate's car I crashed |
CARICATURES |
| Don't divide a lollipop exactly in two, as W.C. Fields used to say (5,4,1,6,2,4,5) |
NEVERGIVEASUCKERANEVENBREAK |
| Draws level in quiz - eels are natatorial |
EQUALIZES |
| Dwarf fish |
TROLL |
| Each rigid border is quiet at this point in Europe, Africa and Asia |
EASTERNHEMISPHERE |
| English provided weapons protecting vessel set aside for a special purpose |
EARMARKED |
| Execution - at Tyburn? |
CAPITALPUNISHMENT |
| Exponential development of a microlight |
LOGARITHMIC |
| First put on pedestal - second and third ignored, become corrupted |
BESTIALISED |
| Followers of the crescent overacted - overwhelmed by complaints |
MOHAMMEDANS |
| Gambler, having lost last of resources, becomes a thief |
PECULATOR |
| God overcomes shambles besetting eastern king |
RAMESES |
| Good, big epicurean |
GASTRONOMIC |
| Greek character endlessly tense |
TAU |
| Hackle is something to be proud of (1,7,2,4,3) |
AFEATHERINONESCAP |
| He only got confused in the study of peoples |
ETHNOLOGY |
