| A Liberal Democrat out of order, not prepared for speech |
ADLIB |
| A network of lies, for example, in question |
ATISSUE |
| A scene that I mishandled that puts people in theatre to sleep |
ANAESTHETIC |
| Ace provider of economic information is back on board |
AFT |
| Article about Ireland's transformation — rousing stuff |
ADRENALIN |
| Author of fantasy, like novel in style |
TOLKIEN |
| Bad language from one given spurious importance |
IMPRECATION |
| Brazen amorous advance that's followed by whistle |
FORWARDPASS |
| Cabinet member with anger about nothing |
ARMOIRE |
| Claims 7 turns away |
AVERTS |
| Collected data about cause that's seditious |
TREASONABLE |
| Contradict conclusions reached by higher judge, nevertheless |
REBUT |
| Couple crossing river that is in open grassland |
PRAIRIE |
| Developed further, like a better mousetrap? |
RIPER |
| Difficult situation time after time accepted by prophet |
HOTSEAT |
| Elected a Conservative minister's supporter? Wrong |
INACCURATE |
| Even church is included, backing fraud |
DECEIT |
| Exasperated plagiarist missing first page |
IRATE |
| Fell some degrees around one, bringing back problems |
SLIPPEDDISCS |
| First or second half of the data he'd falsified couldn't stand |
HATED |
| French volume about Latin added to short written works |
LITRE |
| From teapot, pour rich mixture |
POTPOURRI |
| Good provider of first aid for injured walker |
SAMARITAN |
| Greek hero left nobody out, including a couple of kings |
LORDBYRON |
| Hands a draft that needs to be revised and fixed |
HARDANDFAST |
| Hard bosses demand a thousand in small quantities |
TASKMASTERS |
| High point of international diplomacy |
SUMMIT |
| His position isn't silly, although upheld by unpopular senior figure |
OUTFIELDER |
| It links cells in specially constructed pens, say |
SYNAPSE |
| It measures heat, more unusually, within hot cupel, possibly |
THERMOCOUPLE |