| Money means backing |
LOOT |
| Novelist coming up with opening play |
TOLSTOY |
| Pass round a hole where state legislature sits |
CAPITOL |
| Person who avoids apostle in the end, father of Luke? |
EVADER |
| Poet with an elevated view of a particular vegetable? |
COLERIDGE |
| Poison criminal, inmate worryingly carrying a temperature |
CONTAMINATE |
| Resilient players getting a stretcher |
ELASTICBAND |
| Scrooge slowly movin' towards God? |
NIGGARD |
| Shady dealings, corruption on the cards? |
DIRTYTRICKS |
| Similarly connected student finally succeeded ungrammatically? |
TWINNED |
| Slight, and unusually short |
SNUB |
| So no-one out to get wasted? |
ALLIN |
| Someone holy in spirit left English city |
BRISTOL |
| Speaker, one delivering a short message? |
TWEETER |
| State claiming sneaker ultimately is a trainer |
TRELLIS |
| Sticky stuff covering edges of pie that's narrow |
TAPER |
| Strangler about to enter north European city |
BOLOGNA |
| Teach canon to be unorthodox? I don't think so! |
NOTACHANCE |
| Thus employed, why don't they cast me in Godot? If only! (1,6,2,2,5) |
ISHOULDBESOLUCKY |
| Town in Kent where conversation gets cut |
CHATHAM |
| Tree resin in time leaking towards the canopy? |
ELEMI |
| Tuck partner into chap's ecclesiastical vestment |
MANIPLE |
| Unhappy as a dumb pig, might you say? |
DISGRUNTLED |
| Very slight gaffe initially over relative |
GAUNT |
| War with Italy ain't so bad? Stop! |
RAILWAYSTATION |
| Wearing a T-shirt, perhaps, unable to take the lead? |
COLLARLESS |
| Well-built degenerate stealing vehicle |
ROBUST |
| What Blackbeard wielded caused damsel distress? |
CUTLASS |
| When night falls, it may be well to tour this part of London |
NOTTINGHILL |
| Wicked relative's speed expelling the French |
UNCHASTE |
| Woman round to introduce daughter to rival? Not so fast |
ANDANTINO |
