| Milfoil |
YARROW |
| Non-combative |
PACIFIC |
| Non-scientific subjects |
LIBERALARTS |
| North American name for a tram |
STREETCAR |
| Novel by Thomas Hardy (3,4,3,7,5) |
FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD |
| One giving way to pressure |
YIELDER |
| One-time offshore broadcasting station |
RADIOCAROLINE |
| Opera by Verdi |
NABUCCO |
| Organised attempt at defamation |
SMEARCAMPAIGN |
| Partiality |
PENCHANT |
| Parts of periodical publication |
VOLUMES |
| Perverted pain-inflicters |
SADISTS |
| Poison; malice |
VENOM |
| Proverb urging silence in a tricky situation |
LEASTSAIDSOONESTMENDED |
| Revelations (of scandals, etc) |
EXPOSURES |
| Russian royal; Sinatra (anag.) |
TSARINA |
| Scatterbrain |
AIRHEAD |
| Slender candle |
TAPER |
| Something essential |
NECESSITY |
| South-bank area of Dublin |
TEMPLEBAR |
| Spanish wine |
RIOJA |
| State of perfection (Latin) |
NEPLUSULTRA |
| Study of the nervous system |
NEUROLOGY |
| Tail end of cooked fowl |
PARSONSNOSE |
| The 23: an — for Richard I |
EPITHET |
| Type of cereal |
BUCKWHEAT |
| Villain in David Copperfield |
URIAHHEEP |
| West Indies republic |
HAITI |
| Within the Church of England's communion |
ANGLICAN |
| Without musical accompaniment |
ACAPPELLA |