| Beat up thoroughly, though without conviction |
BASHFULLY |
| Bird that may be big in sky |
DIPPER |
| Brainless hero in word-game losing head |
RAMBO |
| Deficient in decibel, can't opera be sung like this? |
BELCANTO |
| Devise elaborate costume |
GETUP |
| Disadvantage of combining two metals |
SNAG |
| Doggedness shown by a few from each large town |
TENACITY |
| Fear prison will be a graet shock |
DREADLOCKS |
| Flavouring of the hour, say |
THYME |
| Gas not quite random in movement |
RADON |
| Hot to get vengeance, feeling this? |
HATE |
| I pay upfront, caught by over 50% tax |
IMPOST |
| In favour of new style of TV - missing it is reckless |
PRODIGAL |
| Land mainly high but low by river |
MOOR |
| Lying at last in shade is great |
HUGE |