| International base needs trial equipment |
TESTBED |
| It doesn't matter where asylum seekers go to avoid hostile elements (3,4,2,1,5) |
ANYPORTINASTORM |
| Jailed - frequently I'm free eventually at last possible moment (2,3,4,2,4) |
INTHENICKOFTIME |
| Journalist has battle with woman hunting for century-old articles |
EDWARDIANA |
| Just that spot where danseur glided in |
PUREANDSIMPLE |
| Keep talking tediously about old weapon |
HARPOON |
| Lear's character challenged in extremities (3,6,3,3,2,4) |
THEPOBBLEWHOHASNOTOES |
| Let in clerks for retraining here? |
SKILLCENTRE |
| Nice way to show you're sorry! |
RUE |
| Number Eleven thanks single source of loan |
TAILENDER |
| One given certificate, complete with little case |
WARRANTEE |
| One unexplained overhead you forgot to cover |
UFO |
| Parrot appears to speak - these words don't mean a single thing! |
POLYSEMES |
| Pay is what an umpire draws, at the end of the day |
STUMPUP |
| Perhaps giving Tyne no end of gaze - it's a big river |
YANGTZE |
| Priest unknown to partner in crime dynasty of late 16th century |
ELIZABETHAN |
| Puritan initially put on outfit |
PRIG |
| Ray's settee is adjustable for comfort |
EASYSTREET |
| Request to fetch from top shelf second-hand garment |
REACHMEDOWN |
| Rustling has us more than once looking up over far end of our allotment |
SUSURRATION |
| Sailors made use of a riddle in verse (4,4,2,3,2,1,5) |
THEYWENTTOSEAINASIEVE |
| Services for Londoners here: we fix up men with babysitters |
WESTMINSTERABBEY |
| Shortly rate game to be a difficult proposition |
ASSESBRIDGE |
| Steps beneath bar where waiter could be |
LIMBO |
| Stocky male going round circuit on cycle, achieving what's impossible |
SQUARINGTHECIRCLE |
| Suffering with shock? Times when you wish you'd stayed in bed! |
BADHAIRDAYS |
| The day before mock mediaeval battle |
EVESHAM |
| The point of a document greatly diminished |
MICRODOT |
| They could make skipper on ship skip away |
HORNPIPES |
| Time to tear compilers to pieces? Many may follow their lead |
TRENDSETTERS |
| Trendy girl going to a party in South Africa |
INKATHA |
| Use key perhaps to get out of vault? |
DECRYPT |
| Venomous little thing as keen as may be |
SEASNAKE |
| Wax lyrical playing 160 lost tracks |
RAILWAY |
| Weak in command, developing a shine for the Head? |
THINONTOP |
| With club, attacked wife inside farm building |
COWSHED |
| With one vessel cast either side, they set off |
ACTIVATORS |
| Without limitation, French veto punishment involving it |
NONFINITE |