| A little substance needed in talk |
SMATTERING |
| Bold initial in printing favoured |
PLUCKY |
| Bring out point - leading permitted |
ELICIT |
| Channel One working with material? |
SEWER |
| Charming society girl gone missing, now showing |
ONAIR |
| Distressed, though winning at tennis? |
UPSET |
| Elegant beast, one bracketed in similar caste, perhaps |
SIAMESECAT |
| English word of action rejected, note |
BREVE |
| Figure observed to admit affair |
SEVENTEEN |
| Flower turning to the sun |
NOVA |
| Great batsman fast approaching century, five short of hundred bagged |
LENHUTTON |
| Healthy-sounding weather forecast? |
HAIL |
| Hoop that is getting tangled with gas pipes |
OESOPHAGI |
| Jazz legend able to lift his audience? |
ARMSTRONG |
| Last word to change, incomplete |
AMEN |
| Liberal suffering decline |
LANGUISH |