| Politician, runners held, is cutting corners |
SKIMPS |
| Poor Noel gets stage fright - pulls out |
ELONGATES |
| Profligate poet? |
SPENDER |
| Release banker and politician given time |
EXEMPT |
| Run off, in East European retreat |
ELOPE |
| Sent off, with a wave of the hand? |
HYPNOTISED |
| Simply got a change, not being single-minded |
POLYGAMIST |
| Smell, it's said, this river! |
MOUSE |
| South American girl worth a close look |
PERUSAL |
| Summarily, hang space visitor on hillside terrace |
LYNCHET |
| Tied up and after a time, wrapped, say? |
SPELLBOUND |
| To catch a salmon, takes ten, reeling |
STAKENET |
| Too thin to stand up? |
LEAN |
| Undisciplined pets made herd scatter wildly |
STAMPEDE |
| Whisk in jug |
STIR |