| Lots are protecting equipment from warships |
FRIGATES |
| Match about to go into time period |
AGREE |
| Material wealth, pure and simple |
CASHMERE |
| Measure to be backed by government department |
FOOT |
| Packs part-case of perry cider |
SCRUMPY |
| Party animal |
STAG |
| People who rule, for example, in tears |
REGENTS |
| Phoenix is fine? Express doubt |
FUM |
| Poet is excluded from speaking |
BARD |
| Rotten finish - appalling! |
OFFENDING |
| Scrubbed first chapter accepted by bitter journalist |
SCOURED |
| Sign for the French letter 'O' |
LEO |
| Singular circular on theologian |
ODD |
| Some mothers-to-be see themselves as such! |
OBESE |
| Speech that could be a bit dire |
DIATRIBE |
| Stroke should not start to bellow |
OAR |
| Temples are quiet when embracing a deity |
PAGODAS |
| The child initially accepted gold necklace |
TORC |
| The way exercises lifted the pace |
STEP |
| Times in link-up with disappearance |
EXIT |
| Work up and down deck |
POOP |