| A rounded style of writing, but not right for author |
AESOP |
| Advantageous position of home team — follow progress |
INSIDETRACK |
| Airmen's flight initially beset by trouble — fuel needed |
PARAFFIN |
| Artist under pressure to prepare gallery for paintings |
PRADO |
| At heart Coptic spiritual leader sounds cheerful |
OPTIMISTIC |
| Capital stay in Bordeaux, perhaps |
BATONROUGE |
| Commotions as editor avoids cutbacks |
RUCTIONS |
| Composer's contemptuous expression about Wagner's last manuscript |
BRAHMS |
| Creature a soldier's dragged in unconscious |
AGOUTI |
| Delivers tiny amounts of medication |
DROPS |
| Energy to cover one mile in a race? |
ANIMATION |
| Evident he's got first sign of heart trouble, no longer fit |
OVERTHEHILL |
| Evil leaders expelled from house |
NASTY |
| Expenditure of money to produce largest number of eggs? |
OUTLAY |
| Fear tabloid readership has shrunk |
DREAD |
| Fellow married in Cornwall town |
BODMIN |
| Fellow with rifle, sort of hero at sport? |
TRAPSHOOTER |
| Ferry boat about to come into base |
SEACAT |
| Fire's hot inside cabin |
SHACK |
| First part of publication replaced by advertising supplement |
ADDITION |
| Flirtatious female had no end of champagne at pop concert |
FIZGIG |
| Give report of a post-election procedure? |
RECOUNT |
| Jousts I'd arranged for martial arts fighters |
JUDOISTS |
| Jump lead |
START |
| Meal needing starter: cooked one's yet to be selected? |
UNCHOSEN |
| Not get out of the red single-decker, perhaps cutting journey time |
GOBUST |
| One rolled up for flight and prepared for landing? |
STAIRCARPET |
| One takes interest in old city, indeed |
USURER |
| Ordinary fellow who's a hazard to motorists? |
MANINTHESTREET |
| Panda makes mark, going round yard |
SQUADCAR |
| Piaf appearing regularly, and maybe Chevalier making comeback — here? |
PARIS |
