| A backward idiot, apart from all else |
ALOOF |
| Able to come back after a stretch |
ELASTIC |
| About to be put back in school ground |
TERRAIN |
| Africa's best-known desert flower |
NILE |
| Appeal when vehicle overturns in amateur races |
ATTRACT |
| Artillery associated with assault |
BATTERY |
| Celebration drink for Pygmalion's love |
GALATEA |
| Disapproval, we hear, increasing for drinking spree |
BOOZEUP |
| Drag one's feet on stair carpet newly fitted |
PROCRASTINATE |
| Elect Russian leader |
PUTIN |
| Fall off in spill |
TAPER |
| Fiddle just enough to satisfy examiner? |
SCRAPETHROUGH |
| Fishy evidence that lady is married |
HERRING |
| Flirt and irritate worker |
GALLANT |
| Four-letter word that's used in place of another? |
DASH |
| French dramatist's second story about the Queen |
MOLIERE |
