| A monster, even though he's a colleague of five |
BEHEMOTH |
| Backing given to blood relative for a second time |
BIS |
| Clan's aim? It worked like a charm |
TALISMANIC |
| Cutter has power to move quickly round lakes |
PLOUGHSHARE |
| Dagger rarely found on cricket pitch |
CREASE |
| Doomed American state played a leading role |
ILLSTARRED |
| Drink, it's said, produces trouble |
AIL |
| Implausible relations of senior union members? |
OLDWIVESTALES |
| Knife used before singer consumes extremely smooth fish? |
MACKERELSHARK |
| Lie about origin of recurrent animosity |
FRICTION |
| Marvellous husband leaves sumptuous material |
FABRIC |
| Member of popular team getting runs |
INSIDER |
| Muslim ruler's poem once rejected |
EMIR |
| Obscure knight accepted in fashionable area right away |
INDISTINCT |
| Part of musical comparatively lacking in feeling |
NUMBER |