| Any sort of casing with an opening |
YAWN |
| Banal adult tips bandied about in Open University |
PLATITUDINOUS |
| Becoming confused missing second in series of complete set of chromosomes |
GENOMIC |
| Bottom for one without intelligence |
MECHANICAL |
| Cook watched it run but it may be still in drain |
DITCHWATER |
| Director's cut version deployed horde after horde |
INDROVES |
| Extremely enthusiastic about power or unenthusiastic |
DAMP |
| Henry dissolved chapter and he ruled with six others |
HEPTARCH |
| Intrigue. It boils down to two characters: a fellow with female active in a retreat |
AFFAIR |
| Left-winger's cross is in Man U's half, right? |
MARXIST |
| Mad cow taken ill? Ten letters go out |
WACKO |
| Mayhem. United supporters will be up for it |
SNAFU |
| Moss here in America is stopped by cop in outskirts of Long Island |
LYCOPOD |
| Number in a top 10 Moses collected is making sound sense |
ONOMATOPOESIS |