| Amphibian wife's evidently caught? |
NEWT |
| As well to translate English for this Antipodean |
AUSSIE |
| Author like Oscar Wilde gobbling fish and drink up |
IRISMURDOCH |
| Author reads novel about Liberal, penetrating various layers? |
CHARLESDICKENS |
| Bird in bar |
RAIL |
| Close-run thing featured in glossy, perhaps? |
PHOTOFINISH |
| Cope with position |
STAND |
| Detailed description better, shortly in range |
SPECTRUM |
| Endlessly beat up, finding head or nose? |
CONK |
| Finally beyond question, it's a sailing vessel |
DHOW |
| Flat blade ultimately going under surface of soil? |
SPADE |
| Fortune bringing shame on Nereids, all at sea |
SERENDIPITY |
| Fruit -- talk about slightly thick! |
SLOE |
| Hard to conceal in the manipulation of words the mark of an illiterate puzzle setter |
SPHINX |