| Act boldly, risking a stinging response |
GRASPTHENETTLE |
| Basin to drink around |
STOUP |
| Birth of dwarf? |
HAPPYEVENT |
| Bottom's cold — approves covering it in nightwear |
BEDSOCKS |
| Corpulence of dog problematic in wooden ship |
PODGINESS |
| Cultivated type names an arsenic compound |
RENAISSANCEMAN |
| Cutter's first to hail vessel |
HEWER |
| Dismissed from here, hard to leave for prison perhaps |
SENTENCE |
| Don't stay firm — intend compromising eventually in affair |
COMEANDGO |
| For "plumbers", a target we messed up? |
WATERGATE |
| French port, I agree, no backward spot |
SETEYESON |
| Get secretary to sit up on a stool at first, gaining energy for bureaucratic nightmare |
PAPERCHASE |
| God's party in fresh uprising |
WODEN |
| Gong keeps animals turning left in a sort of race |
OBSTACLE |
| Ground cannot be opened in its current state |
ASIS |