| Make a case against reducing canal area |
SUE |
| Mouth-stretching end of grey beard |
YAWN |
| No intellectual is entertained by sovereign — or amused |
IGNORAMUS |
| Oh, to be in France in a woman's embrace — it might bolster one's brogue |
SHOETREE |
| Painful stiffness in record temperature is unfair |
NOTCRICKET |
| Perhaps trim chicken? |
GUTLESS |
| Poet beginning to enjoy mountain skyline below its lowest part |
COLERIDGE |
| Police state's ending small patch of growth |
COPSE |
| Skipping borders when returning, became late for Ukrainian port |
ODESSA |
| Smooth French writer's journal? |
SANDPAPER |
| Sports garment is tight-fitting: awkward hot cry's about that |
CYCLINGSHORTS |
| State backing without Virginia |
AVOW |
| Terrible tutoresses'd suffered from emotional pressure |
STRESSEDOUT |
| Underpaid clerk's not right to be reprimanded |
CATCHIT |