| Group of women with quiet desire |
WISH |
| Gullible, taken in by backward deviant |
NAIVE |
| Hide untruth, then look at wife |
LIELOW |
| It's right for vessels to carry flags |
STREAMERS |
| Jog as a streaker across near side of ground |
NUDGE |
| Like staggering drunk maybe rendering famous poem |
CROSSINGTHEBAR |
| Meaningless verbiage that may take some swallowing |
WAFFLE |
| Music-maker appears when the wine goes round at home |
CLARINET |
| Person leaving university may want a church for comfort |
SOLACE |
| Poets, say, featured in bookstore's latest catalogues |
ELEGISTS |
| Supply of water that might keep a writer going? |
PENSTOCK |
| Toss head in demonstration of reticence |
SHYNESS |
| Very little cash turning up, but yen is lost for acrimony |
VENOM |
| When a bit of dosh brings advancement |
ASCENT |