| Meat served up in function during autumn month |
VENISON |
| Merchants persist in repackaging gift |
CHRISTMASPRESENT |
| New writer enters single short poem in book |
SONSANDLOVERS |
| North African people get about, crossing Egypt, once |
TUAREG |
| Notice most of the soldiers retreating |
SIGHT |
| Novel – second by English author just over half completed |
MOBYDICK |
| Number from musical Love Me Tender (second and third parts) sung flat during chorus |
SOMEENCHANTEDEVENING |
| Order food about end of morning (noon) |
ALIGNMENT |
| Order leader out of European capital, heading westwards for Italian city |
BERGAMO |
| Perform song in harmonious arrangement |
PLAYACT |
| Person hoarding things? Bet one will be placed on a charge |
ACCUMULATOR |
| Playing in nets with bat, showing self-restraint |
ABSTINENT |
| Promise to get up and finish off kitchen sink |
DROWN |
| Put in other words, tutor's not one to criticise severely |
TRANSLATE |
| Recently-released prisoner's words in this musical form? |
CANTATA |
| Release record reaching number two in charts in time, right? |
DISCHARGE |
| Resumed plying trade after holiday |
RESTARTED |
| Say how to introduce retired hack? |
EXPRESS |
| Scotsman's shout of surprise, eating into cheese roll |
BRIOCHE |
| Shifting joke books about |
TONUP |
| Staff depart to get fruit – see comment at 31 ac |
MANGO |
| Stroke us with tips of the fingers? They might |
MASSEUSES |
| Teenagers often scathing at first about opera |
TOSCA |
| Tentatively try something new without entirely taking the plunge (3,4,3,2,3,5) |
DIPONESTOEINTHEWATER |
| Thickset criminal has succeeded in rural areas |
THESTICKS |
| This writer, when entering, ahead of the competition to be poet laureate |
MASEFIELD |
| Tobacco tin, square |
SNOUT |
| Today son's staying in to lunch? That won't be a problem |
NOSWEAT |
| Tool one has at one's fingertips? |
NAILSET |
| Ugly house by river in a London borough |
ABHORRENT |
| What could be senator's crime against the state? |
HIGHTREASON |