| Lack of activity, woefully on decline |
INDOLENCE |
| Lead, for example, as director of agents and others |
METAL |
| Little woman embracing the object of friendship |
AMITY |
| Lost after temperature rises in one constituency |
ATSEA |
| Many contenders, oddly, outside ring act formally |
STANDONCEREMONY |
| Oil etc found in region near Caspian Sea |
MEDIA |
| Person on walkabout greeting king and queen |
HIKER |
| Rabble taking away ship and gold from this, for example |
CROWD |
| Silly emphasis on name being distorted |
MISSHAPEN |
| Stark negative response of Scots to King Edward |
NAKED |
| Taking unorthodox stance, and upwardly mobile |
ASCENDANT |
| The height of classical Greek architecture? |
ACROPOLIS |
| Tsar crossing European border or boundary |
PERIMETER |
| Unstable fighter making many comebacks |
ROCKY |
| What's left of article with, say, knot tied around it |
REMAINDER |