| Protest with a mild expression of surprise ... |
STRIKEALIGHT |
| Pseudonymous novelist retired, lacking energy - goodbye to love |
OUIDA |
| Quick, get a drink about four |
ALIVE |
| Replacing another missile that's decayed |
VICARIOUS |
| Rock laid where Jack Ketch worked |
GIBBET |
| Satellite dish - it's punk! |
SPUTNIK |
| Secret conviction |
CONFIDENCE |
| See about flower in the wind |
EASTERLY |
| Seeds played first in the aforementioned place |
THISTLEDOWN |
| Shrub container artist overturned in front of us |
ARBUTUS |
| Slope beneath rampart - it needs to be removed from exercise after retreat |
ESCARP |
| Sluggishness during battle |
INACTION |
| Someone coming to the rescue when one can't sleep, by the sound of it |
WHITEKNIGHT |
| Staff don't declare |
BATON |
| Start with an H, like Hook, perhaps |
ASPIRATE |
| Straddling centre of lifeboat, I command rowers: I'm so cool! |
ICEBOX |
| Study dull precis |
CONDENSE |
| The blue nose said 'Search me!' |
HEAVENKNOWS |
| The horse can, when trained, become one to rely on |
SHEETANCHOR |
| The ultimate drink I keep a king has imbibed |
ONEFORTHEROAD |
| Tiny sheep with weak back |
MIDGET |
| Topaz may be found in park |
YELLOWSTONE |
| Use hole, burying differences, maintaining friendly relations |
NEIGHBOURLY |
| Vet, twenty four, is involved in accident |
MISADVENTURE |
| Vicar, one partners notice |
REVIEW |
| Weapons demolishing bungalows heartlessly |
BLOWGUNS |
| What does OAP make? They strangely make - this |
TAKEHOMEPAY |
| What whist players have together |
HANDINHAND |
| X-ray a ram going sick |
ANGIOGRAM |
| Yorkshireman catches train before bus, initially (or other form of transport) |
TRAILBIKE |
