| Lover needs capital to acquire ring |
ROMEO |
| Maugham's London house |
SOMERSET |
| Number to facilitate and inspire truce |
CEASEFIRE |
| Opposed states open engagement |
AVERSE |
| Overhead scales? |
DANDRUFF |
| Record broken by the winner |
TAPE |
| Set of rules the expert may break |
CODE |
| Severely punished for being drunk |
STONED |
| Shrub, one that's in rising demand |
LILAC |
| Submissive bearing |
YIELDING |
| Suffering from a lack of balance? |
INTHERED |
| The know-all gets chap in a temper |
PEDANT |
| Understand arithmetical error |
FIGUREOUT |
| Withdraws from an agreement in which officers are involved |
CRIESOFF |