| Lacking in courage |
TIMID |
| Make necessary reforms (3,4,5,2,5) |
PUTONESHOUSEINORDER |
| Marine supply business |
CHANDLERY |
| Mexican spirit |
TEQUILA |
| Mineral spring |
SPA |
| Needing cleaning |
DUSTY |
| Nottinghamshire cricket ground |
TRENTBRIDGE |
| One from southern Russia or Ukraine noted for horse riding skills |
COSSACK |
| Opera by Benjamin Britten |
PETERGRIMES |
| Palladian mansion with gardens in Wiltshire |
STOURHEAD |
| Prepare (vegetables) |
TOPANDTAIL |
| Printing error |
ERRATUM |
| Punctuation mark |
COMMA |
| Reach a climax |
COMETOAHEAD |
| Relating to study of various peoples |
ETHNOLOGIC |
| Reliably truthful and accurate |
AUTHORITATIVE |
| Remain living in |
INDWELL |
| Roman comic playwright |
TERENCE |
| Severe suffering |
TORMENT |
| Shorten |
ABRIDGE |
| Spider's organ producing gossamer |
SPINNERET |
| Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating |
PASTEURISED |
| Technical equipment |
APPARATUS |
| The letter H |
AITCH |
| Tree |
FIR |
| Upbrushed tuft of hair |
QUIFF |
| Was absorbed in thought |
MUSED |
| What the Kelvin scale measures |
ABSOLUTETEMPERATURE |
| Winter view |
SNOWSCAPE |
| Wolfgang — Mozart |
AMADEUS |
| Work, function |
OPERATE |
