| Bishop left unconscious in error |
BLUNDER |
| Book, in current state, providing foundation |
BASIS |
| Chap no longer doing well isn't entirely penniless, we hear |
HASBEEN |
| Cheat man in marginalised position, initially |
ROOK |
| Check depth of water below fruit-tree, say |
PLUMB |
| Country in which I come down to earth again? |
IRELAND |
| Coward, for one, is unusually wary in predicament |
PLAYWRIGHT |
| Daughter is set up in improved accommodation |
BEDSITTER |
| Did as badly, in no respect |
DISDAIN |
| Getting together finally in group? Not entirely |
ALLYING |
| Guns badly positioned in vital vessel |
ARTILLERY |
| In rueful tone, be phoned about one unknown after a game |
APOLOGETICALLY |
| Left outside in cacophony, play guitar or flute, perhaps |
WINDINSTRUMENT |
| Like someone concealing one negative comment |
ASPERSION |
| Maiden seized by villain — mature monarch, for example |
IMAGO |
