| Karate translated by editor with nothing gained |
EMPTYHANDED |
| Knowing about what's reasonable or metaphysical |
ONTOLOGICAL |
| Legendary king's name brought up in case - that's not at all interesting |
DULLEST |
| Letter from an innocent person to American lawyer |
LAMBDA |
| Librettist formerly associated with Ellice |
GILBERT |
| Machinery sold by garden centre |
PLANT |
| Mendicants have been disenfranchised - they should be grateful for what they get |
BEGGARSCANNOTBECHOOSERS |
| Multiple versions of The Pilgrim's Progress? |
THECANTERBURYTALES |
| Murderer and prophet follow up pickpocket and drunkard |
DIPSOMANIAC |
| No Christian home offered to one supposedly devil-inspired virtuoso |
PAGANINI |
| Organised trips: we voice our concerns they could land us in court |
CROWNPROSECUTIONSERVICE |
| Parking place first to be out of commission |
LIEUP |
| President's wife I rebuffed, not touching three letters: that's out of order |
INOPERATIVE |
| Protection for construction workers in Derby, perhaps |
HARDHAT |
| Quoted saw in speech |
CITED |
| Record books always around |
ENTER |
| Ruritania's rewritten angry old patriotic song (4,2,4,3,5) |
LANDOFHOPEANDGLORY |
| Scholar cut the rest |
BALANCE |
| School principal installed a communication aid |
HEADSET |
| See car in road start roughly - I'll manage |
ADMINISTRATOR |
| See rich now getting comeuppance |
NORWICH |
| Separated people need time to find accommodation |
APARTMENT |
| Short A in drape? Yes and no |
CURTAIN |
| Singular person going on tour, exotic entertainer |
STRIPPER |
| Solitary engineer unravelled clues |
RECLUSE |
| Still around, navigational aid that hasn't succeeded |
EXTANT |
| The situation is altered, with torture applied for the second time (3,4,2,2,3,5,4) |
THEBOOTISONTHEOTHERFOOT |
| They sit on bench with book on lap |
CIRCUITJUDGES |
| To be completely candid, about to follow on - a failing, surely (2,1,6,2,7) |
ONAHIDINGTONOTHING |
| Tossing and turning in a patch of rough water |
AWAKE |
| Tried an alternative exchange for second-hand article |
TRADEIN |
| Try to calm things down - copy the Torrey Canyon (4,3,2,8,6) |
POUROILONTROUBLEDWATERS |
| Understood it after Tom retired |
TACIT |
| Very large awards given to English |
OBESE |
| Wages undergo change |
GUERDON |
| We are told Roman see used to cover part of shire |
HUNDRED |
| With Eire's supporters embracing her, she's going to succeed |
HEIRESS |
| Withdraw Egyptologist - about time! |
RETRACT |