| Almost broke cover |
SKIN |
| Book on folk traditions in excellent Italian |
FLORENTINE |
| Chap visiting continent with head of this state |
TASMANIA |
| Craft product one beat, commonly, when short of time |
CROCHET |
| Full of menace, like a love-child's bar? |
SINISTER |
| German cutie not subjected to abuse |
TEUTONIC |
| Gold leaf regularly brought up for examination |
ORAL |
| Hollow-faced judge stunned by source of illumination |
LANTERNJAWED |
| I contort in agonising repentance |
CONTRITION |
| Insect raising goose-pimples over Sussex town, say |
CREEPYCRAWLY |
| Lectures on ethnicity in Doncaster, for example? |
RACECOURSE |
| Military alliance in action at Oxford? |
NATO |
| Mole's opportunity to engage at first in combat |
BREAKWATER |
| Moor associated with Holmes's last case |
SHEATH |