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Friend films people reading lines (8) | PALMISTS | Definition: people reading lines
**PAL** (friend) **+** **MISTS** (films)
**PALMISTS** (people who claim to read hidden meaning in the lines of your hand) |
Despicable German's one breaking into residence having left base (7) | HEINOUS | Definition: Despicable
(**EIN** [German for the indefinite article 'a'] **contained in** (breaking into) (**HOUSE** [residence] **excluding** [having left] **E** [base of natural logarithms])
**H** (**EIN**) **OUS**
**HEINOUS** (despicable) |
Before surgery, announce doctor provision to fall (7) | AIRDROP | Definition: provision to fall
**AIR** (announce) **+** **DR** (doctor) **+** **OP** (operation; surgery)
**AIRDROP** (landing of supplies[provisions] by parachute; provision to fall) |
Maintenance is improving part of castle (6) | UPKEEP | Definition: Maintenance
**UP** (improving) **+** **KEEP **(the innermost and strongest part of a castle, the central tower; a stronghold)
**UPKEEP** (maintenance) |
What beer might be rough for? (5) | LIVER | Definition: What beer might be rough for
**LIVER** (one who exists, one who is; a **BE-ER**)
**LIVER** (organ of the body susceptible to failure from consistent abuse by alcohol intake) |
New idea -demolishing pub – gets good reception (7) | OVATION | Definition: good reception
**INNOVATION** (new idea) **excluding** (demolishing) **INN** (pub)
**OVATION** (enthusiastic reception) |
Are fliers its most appropriate form of publicity? (7) | AIRSHOW | Definition: Are fliers its most appropriate form of publicity
**AIRSHOW** (fliers are advertising leaflets [often spelt flyers])
**AIRSHOW** (flying display; somewhere flyers/fliers will be demonstrating their talents) |
One may sponsor a new set (5) | ANGEL | Definition: One may sponsor
**A** **+** **N** **+** **GEL** (set)
**ANGEL** (sponsor / financier of theatrical ventures) |
Clumsy guy, coming in to spoil love and sex (5) | MALADROIT | Definition: Clumsy
**LAD** (guy) **contained in** (coming in to) (**MAR** [spoil] **+** **O** [love; zero score in tennis]) **+** **IT** [sex appeal]) **MA** (**LAD**) **R** **O** **IT**
**MALADROIT** (clumsy) |
Blokes in general lacking central parts of membranes (9) | MENINGEAL | Definition: of membranes
**MEN** (blokes) **+** **IN** **+** (**GE****NER****AL** excluding lacking] **the middle three letters** [central parts] **NER**)
**MENINGEAL** (of the three membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord) |
A story about name of Dior's design (1-4) | A-LINE | Definition: Dior's design
(**A** **+** **LIE** [story]) **containing** (about) **N** (name) **A** **LI **(**N**) **E**
**A-LINE** (of clothing, narrow at the top and widening evenly to a full hemline. Christian Dior's designs made extensive use of the **A-LINE) |
UK store incorporating repeated indications of gold inspired by German art school (7) | BAUHAUS | Definition: German art school
**BHS** (British Home Stores; a UK department store) **containing** (incorporating) **AU** (chemical symbol for Gold) **twice** (repeated) **B** (**AU**) **H** (**AU**) **S**
**BAUHAUS** (a German school of art and architecture [1919 – 1933] having as its aim the integration of art and technology in design) |
I weary with the writer recalling those academics of yore (7) | EMERITI | Definition: academics of yore
( **I** + **TIRE** [weary] + **ME** [the writer]) **all reversed** (recalling) (**EM** **ERIT** **I**)<
**EMERITI** (people honourably retired from public service; often applied to academic professors; academics of yore) |
Individual found between opposing sides? (5) | LONER | Definition: Individual found between opposing sides
**ONE** (individual) **contained in** (found between) ( **L** [left] **+** **R** [right] – opposing sides) **L** (**ONE**) **R**
**LONER** (a person who prefers to act on his or her own and not to have close friends or confidential relationships; one not belonging to sides or factions) &Lit clue? |
It's wrong to involve number in burying (9) | INTERRING | Definition: burying
(**IT** **+** **ERRING** [wrong] – it's wrong) **containing** (to involve) **N** (number) **I** (**N**) **T** **ERRING**
**INTERRING** (burying) |
Despondent, being with this care, possibly by end of week (9) | HEARTSICK | Definition: Despondent
**Anagram of** (possibly) **THIS CARE** **+** **K** **(last letter of** [end of] **WEEK**) **HEARTSIC*** **K**
**HEARTSICK** (despondent) |
Being drawn round, currently circling rear of hut (2,3) | ON TOW | Definition: Being drawn
**O** (round shape) **+** (**NOW** **containing** [circling] **T** [**last letter of** {rear of} **HU****T**]) **O** **N** (**T**) **OW**
**ON TOW** (being drawn) |
Former speed challenge needing most from new engine? (7) | MACHINE | Definition: engine
**MACH I** (the challenge to break the sound barrier by reaching a speed of **MACH 1** may not be very difficult to achieve now, but it was once a real challenge; former speed challenge) **+** **NE** (**2 of the 3 letters of **[most from] **NEW**)
**MACHINE** (an **ENGINE** is an example of a **MACHINE**) |
Note expected regarding birth, about heart of young shaver, ultimately (7) | NATURAL | Definition: Note
**NATAL** (regarding birth) **containing** (about) (**U** [**middle letter of** {heart of} **YOUNG**] **+** **R** [**last** **letter of **{ultimately} **SHAVER**]) **NAT** (**U** **R**) **AL**
**NATURAL** (a tone or note in music that is neither sharp not flat) |
Courts backing America (4) | FORA | Definition: Courts
**FOR** (backing) **+** **A** (America)
**FORA** (enclosed spaces; courts; sometimes courts of law in times past) |
Runs into crazy, crazy nut, one on a substantial scale (10) | GARGANTUAN | Definition: on a substantial scale
(**R** [runs in cricket scoring notation] **contained in **[into] **GAGA** [crazy]) **+** **an anagram of** (crazy) **NUT** **+** **AN** (one) **GA** (**R**) **GA** **NTU*** **AN**
**GARGANTUAN** (on a substantial scale) |
Verse 1's working, including line 1 – it produces music (6) | VIOLIN | Definition: it produces music
**V** (verse) **+** **I** (1) **+** (**ON** [working] **containing** [including] [**L** {line} **+ I** {1}]) **V** **I ****O** (**L** **I**) **N**
**VIOLIN** (musical instrument) |
A vote against member that is expressing lack of purpose (6) | ANOMIE | Definition: lack of purpose
**A** **+** **NO** (a vote against) **+** **M** (member) **+** **IE** (id est; that is)
**ANOMIE** (a condition of hopelessness caused or characterized by breakdown of rules of conduct and loss of belief and sense of purpose) |
Headless giant captured by wan English artist (4,4) | PAUL KLEE | Definition: artist
(**HULK** [big person; giant] **excluding the first letter** [headless]) **contained in** (captured by) (**PALE** [wan] **+** **E** [English]) **PA** (**UL K**) **LE** **E**
**PAUL KLEE** (reference **PAUL KLEE** [1879 – 1940], Swiss artist) |
Successful student in pair shortly tucking into jar (8) | GRADUATE | Definition: Successful student
(**DUAL** [twofold; pair] **excluding the final letter** [shortly]) **L contained in** (tucking into) **GRATE** (jar) **GRA** (**DUA**) **TE**
**GRADUATE** (successful student) |
Scare away sign of growth with cut (4) | SHOO | Definition: Scare away
**SHOOT **(sign of growth) **excluding the final letter** (cut) **T**
**SHOO** (exclamation used to scare away) |
Sound of humour about women's gossipy voices? (10) | TWITTERING | Definition: gossipy voices
**TITTERING** (sound of humour) **containing** (about) **W** (women) **T** (**W**) **ITTERING**
**TWITTERING** (a succession of small tremulous noises such as generated by gossipy voices) |
Feature of caravanning that's apparent in phone-in? (6,4) | MOBILE HOME | Definition: Feature of caravanning
**MOBILE** (phone) **+** **HOME** (in)
**MOBILE HOME** (feature of caravanning) |
Animal manure that's not opened up (3) | GNU | Definition: Animal
(**DUNG** [manure] **excluding the first letter** [not opened]) **reversed** (up; down clue) **GNU**<
**GNU** (large African antelope; animal) |
Starting one with a fool (one with a Conservative in support) (10) | INITIATORY | Definition: Starting
**I** (one) **+** **NIT** (fool) **+** **I** (one) **+** **A** **+** **TORY** (Conservative)
**INITIATORY **(starting) |
Transport centre's attitude's a blunder (8) | AIRSTRIP | Definition: Transport centre
**AIR'S** (attitude's) **+** **TRIP** (lapse; blunder)
**AIRSTRIP **(runway; transport centre) |
Sharp grass: there's point provided in it (8) | SPINIFEX | Definition: Sharp grass
(**PIN** [point] **+** **IF** [provided]) **contained in **(in) **SEX** (it) **S** (**PIN** **IF**) **EX**
**SPINIFEX** (sharp-pointed Australian grass) |
Friend having no time for buxom actress? (3) | MAE | Definition: buxom actress
**MAE** (friend) **excluding** (having no) **T** (time)
**MAE** (reference **MAE** West, [1893 – 1980], actress and sex symbol) |
Stealing reduced amount of gate money (6) | TAKING | Definition: Stealing
**TAKINGS** (amount of gate money) **excluding the final letter** (reduced) **S**
**TAKING** (stealing) |
Places to sit, special in origin (6) | ROOSTS | Definition: Places to sit
**S** (special) **contained in **(n) **ROOTS** (origin) **ROO** (**S**) **TS**
**ROOSTS** (places for resting birds; places to sit) |
Heading off demo, showing cunning (4) | ARCH | Definition: cunning
**MARCH **(demonstration; demo) **excluding the first letter** (heading off) **M**
**ARCH** (cunning) |
King's rule keeping up pace (4) | WALK | Definition: pace
(**K** [king] **+** **LAW** [rule]) **all reversed** (keeping up) (**WAL** **K**)<
**WALK** (pace) |
House husband's trapped balls at a hospital in Donnybrook (3-3) | HOO-HAH | Definition: Donnybrook
([**HO** {house} **+** **H** {husband}] **containing** [trapped] **O** [overs in cricket scoring notation; balls]) **+** **A** **+** **H** (hospital)
**HO** (**O**) **H** **A** **H**
**HOO-HAH** (noisy fuss; donnybrook) |
Physicist gets home to find speech therapist (7) | HIGGINS | Definition: speech therapist
**HIGGS** (reference physicist Peter **HIGGS**, the man who predicted the existence of the **HIGGS** boson) **containing** (gets) **IN** (home)
**HIGG** (**IN**) **S**
**HIGGINS** (reference Henry **HIGGINS**, professor of phonetics and speech therapist in Pygmalian, the play by George Bernard Shaw) |
Standard Walkman? (10) | STEREOTYPE | Definition: Standard
**STEREO TYPE** (Walkman is the brand name for Sony's range of audio players, presumably all available as **STEREO** models; **TYPE** of **STEREO**)
**STEREOTYPE** (a fixed conventionalized or stock image, or a person or thing that conforms to it; standard) |
One of 4 in grid initially got injury and fell (4) | HILL | Definition: fell
**H** (there are four initial **H** shapes formed by the blocked cells in the grid) **+** **ILL** (harm; ailment; injury)
**HILL** (fell; e,g the Lakeland fells) |
A historic character in Coleridge finally entering sacred river (5) | ALEPH | Definition: historic character
**E** (**last letter of** [finally] **COLERIDGE**) contained in (entering) **ALPH** (the sacred river referenced in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan)
**AL** (**E**) **PH**
**ALEPH** (the first letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets; historic character) |
One of 4's followers who's 'got ' in cinema? (6) | CARTER | Definition: who's 'got ' in cinema
**CARTER** (reference Jimmy **CARTER**, President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, one of the many successors or Herbert **HOOVER** [4 down] , President from 1929 to 1933)
**CARTER** (reference the film Get **CARTER**, 1971 film starring Michael Caine) |
Heckle comedian (4) | HOOT | Definition: Heckle
**HOOT** (taunt; heckle)
**HOOT** (comedian) double definition |
Regular habits in UCAS applications? (8) | UNIFORMS | Definition: Regular habits
**UNI** (university) **+** **FORMS** giving **FORMS** that are used to apply through **UCAS** (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service)
**UNIFORMS** (distinctive garb for members of a body; regular habits) |
After heart bypass, Afro-Asian takes trip in the wild (2,6) | ON SAFARI | Definition: in the wild
**Anagram of** (takes trip) **AFRO-ASIAN** **excluding** (after … bypass) **the middle letter** (heart) **A**
**ON SAFARI** (in the wild; maybe trip in the wild, but I reckon trip is part of the anagram indicator) |
Seek out The Fox and the Hound turning hastily after central reservation (4) | HUNT | Definition: Seek out
**HUNT** (taking [reservation of] **middle letters of** [central] of each of **THE HOUND TURNING HASTILY**)
**HUNT** (seek out the fox) |
Over-used bowler? (3,3) | OLD HAT | Definition: Over-used
**OLD HAT** (out-of-date; over used)
**OLD HAT** (a bowler **HAT** for example is now considered **OLD**-fashioned) |
Peeping Tom's statement reportedly becoming more slippery (5) | ICIER | Definition: more slippery
**ICIER** (**sounds like** [statement] **I SEE HER** [something a Peeping Tom may say])
**ICIER** (more slippery) |
Footballers' Wives taking last first prize (4) | SWAG | Definition: prize
**WAGS** (**W**ives **A**nd **G**irlfriend**S**, a phrase usually applied to Footballers' ladies) with the last letter **S** then moved to the front (**taking last first**)
**S** **WAG**
**SWAG** (prize) |
Staggering payout when promoted (2,3,3,2) | ON THE WAY UP | Definition: promoted
**Anagram of** (staggering) **PAYOUT WHEN**
**ON THE WAY UP** (promoted) |
Altercation with tax officer in Brief Encounter (3,4) | RUN INTO | Definition: Brief Encounter
**RUN IN** (altercation) **+** **TO** (tax officer)
**RUN INTO** (meet by chance; brief encounter) |
The man primarily found relaxing around women and attractive bottoms (6) | HEFNER | Definition: Brief Encounter
**RUN IN** (altercation) **+** **TO** (tax officer)
**RUN INTO** (meet by chance; brief encounter) |
Four-letter word? (4) | OATH | Definition: Four-letter word
**OATH** (a word of four letters
**OATH** (many succinct **OATH**s are four letter words) |
Gareth Bale off his head drunk getting another drink (6,3) | HERBAL TEA | Definition: drink
**Anagram of** (drunk) **GARETH BALE** **excluding** (off) **the first letter** (his head) **G**
**HERBAL TEA** ([another] drink) |
H2O5 found by hospital department's cleaner? (6) | HOOVER | Definition: cleaner
**H** **+ OO** (2 O) **+** **V** (Roman numeral for 5) **+** **ER** (Emergency Room; hospital department, more commonly used in America than in Britain)
**HOOVER** (generic name for a vacuum cleaner) |
Cyclist Armstong's first position revoked on 14's call (3) | HOY | Definition: Cyclist
**AHOY** (a cry that a sailor such as **HORNBLOWER** [14 down] may make) **excluding** (revoked) **A** (first letter of [first position] **ARMSTRONG**)
**HOY** (reference Sir Chris **HOY**, British track cyclist Olympian) |
Scream takes award in CGI-animated style category (4,4) | GEEK CHIC | Definition: style category
(**EEK** [the sound of a scream] **+** **CH** [Companion of Honour; award]) **contained in** (in) **an anagram of **(animated) **CGI**
**G** (**EEK** **CH**) **IC***
**GEEK CHIC** (The dress, appearance, and culture associated with computing and technology enthusiasts, regarded as stylish or fashionable: style category) I only found this definition online, not in any dictionary that I hold. |
The Grecians' painful ejection in Ricoh upset (5) | ICHOR | Definition: The Grecians' painful ejection
**Anagram of** (upset) **RICOH**
**ICHOR** (the ethereal juice in the veins of the gods [Greek mythology; Grecian]; the gods); colourless matter oozing from an ulcer or wound [painful ejection]) |
4's 17 in lines I'm constructing for underground system (6,4) | SILVER MINE | Definition: underground system
**VER** (**half the letters of **[**OTHER HALF** {17 down}] **HOO****VER** [4 down]) **contained in** (in) **an anagram of** (constructing) **LINES I'M**
**SIL** (**VER**) **MINE*** I'm not sure what purpose **OTHER** is serving in this clue
**SILVER MINE** (underground system) |
Who would broadcast popular One Show presenter? (7) | HOUDINI | Definition: Show
**HOUD** (**sound's like** [broadcast] **WHO'd** [who would]) **+** **IN** (popular) **+** **I** (one)
**HOUDINI** (reference Harry **HOUDINI** presenter of an escapology show) |
RN officer getting Snowden perhaps through instrumental exchange (10) | HORNBLOWER | Definition: RN officer
**WHISTLE BLOWER** (reference Edward Snowden who 'blew the whistle' and disclosed classified documents to a number of media outlets in June 2013) with one instrument, **WHISTLE** replaced by [exchange] another one, **HORN**
**HORNBLOWER** (fictional Naval office, hero of a series of novels by C S Forrester) |
One involved in alliance for health reforms (5,4) | OTHER HALF | Definition: One involved in alliance
**Anagram of** (reforms) **FOR HEALTH**
**OTHER HALF** (one partner in a marriage; one involved in alliance) |
What's rendered 14 less mobile in May? (8) | HAWTHORN | Definition: One involved in alliance
**Anagram of** (reforms) **FOR HEALTH**
**OTHER HALF** (one partner in a marriage; one involved in alliance) |
Pick up drug within progressive state (2,4) | HI TECH | Definition: progressive state
**E** (ecstasy; drug) **contained in** (within) **HITCH** (couple; connect; pick up)
**HI T **(**E**) **CH**
**HI TECH** (advanced, sophisticated technology in specialist fields, e.g. electronics; progressive state) |
Macho gangster' grabs wrestler (5) | HOGAN | Definition: wrestler
**HOGAN** (**hidden word in** [grabs] **MAC****HO GAN****GSTER**)
**HOGAN** (reference Hulk **HOGAN**, American professional wrestler) |
Dig up old forgotten philosopher (4) | HUME | Definition: philosopher
**EXHUME** (dig up) **excluding** (forgotten) **EX** (old)
**HUME** (reference David **HUME** [1711 – 1776], Scottish philosopher) |
One appearing in Porridge's taken up religious system (3) | TAO | Definition: religious system
**OAT **(reference porridge **OAT**s; in singular to give **OAT**) **reversed** (taken up; down clue)
**TAO** <
**TAO** ([in **TAO**ism] the absolute entity which is the source of all existence and change; [in Confucianism and some other philosophies] the way to be followed, right or proper conduct; religious system) |
Youngster is attending middle school (6) | CUBISM | Definition: school
**CUB **(youngster) **+** **IS** **+** **M** (middle)
**CUBISM** (school of painting) |
Meal with no starter further reduced? That's a blow (8) | UPPERCUT | Definition: a blow
(**SUPPER** [meal] **excluding** (no) **the first letter** [starter] **S**) **+** **CUT** (reduced)
**UPPERCUT** (upward short-arm blow) |
Street urchin, say, gets to make critical comments behind hag's back (11) | GUTTERSNIPE | Definition: Street urchin
**G** (**last letter of** [back] **HAG**) **+** **UTTER** (say) **+** **SNIPE** (make critical comments)
**GUTTERSNIPE** (street urchin) |
Have dress cut at the front (3) | OWN | Definition: Have
**GOWN** (dress) **excluding** (cut) **the first lette**r (at the front) **G**
**OWN** (have) |
Until now, no shillings in money drawer (4) | TILL | Definition: money drawer
**STILL** (up to the present time; until now)** excluding** (no) **S** (shilling)
**TILL** (money drawer) |
Brief announcement amid rail chaos in train station (5,5) | LOCAL RADIO | Definition: station
(**AD** [advert; announcement] **contained in** (amid) an **anagram of** (chaos) **RAIL**) **all contained in** (in) **LOCO** (locomotive; train [engine])
**LOC** (**AL R** (**AD**) **I***) **O**
**LOCAL RADIO** ([radio] station] |
TV quizmaster met prostitute by chance it would seem (7) | TARRANT | Definition: TV quizmaster
(**RAN** **contained in** [**INTO**] where **RAN INTO** **can be interpreted as** 'met') **TART **(prostitute)
**TAR** (**RAN**) **T**
**TARRANT** (reference Chris **TARRANT**, quizmaster of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire) |
What was once tepee's size? (6) | EXTENT | Definition: size
**EX** (former; once) **+** **TENT** (a tepee is an example of a **TENT**)
**EXTENT** (size) |
Noticed councillor entering cinema (6) | SCREEN | Definition: cinema
**CR** (councillor) **contained in** (entering) **SEEN** (noticed)
**S** (**CR**) **EEN**
**SCREEN** (the medium of cinema) |
I get pro agitated – a self-satisfying experience (3,4) | EGO TRIP | Definition: self-satisfying experience
**Anagram of** (agitated) **I GET PRO**
**EGO TRIP** (an action or experience which inflates one's good opinion of oneself; a self-satisfying experience) |
Give politician praise (10) | CONTRIBUTE | Definition: Give
**CON** (Conservative; politician) **+** **TRIBUTE** (praise)
**CONTRIBUTE** (give) |
Book every other member of team? I'm sad (4) | EMMA | Definition: Book
**EMMA** (**every other letter of **[every other member of] **TEAM I'M SAD**)
**EMMA** (title of novel by Jane Austen; book) |
Eggs, so variable in parts (3) | OVA | Definition: Eggs
**OVA** (**hidden word in** [in parts] **SO VARIABLE**)
**OVA** (eggs) |
Musical piece, I recalled, rudely interrupted by French individual (5,2,4) | CLAIR DE LUNE | Definition: Musical piece
**Anagram of** (rudely) **I RECALLED** **containing** (interrupted by) **UN** (French for 'one')
**CLAIR DE L** (**UN**) **E***
**CLAIR DE LUNE** (musical piece by Claude Debussy) |
Son stuck in barren areas going west, very anxious (8) | STRESSED | Definition: very anxious
(**S** [son] **contained in** [stuck in] **DESERTS** [barren areas]) **all reversed** (going west)
(**STRES** (**S**) **ED**)< **NB: **either middle **S** could be the one contained
**STRESSED** (very anxious) |
Expert's joke told in French (6) | PUNDIT | Definition: Expert
**PUN** (witticism ; play on words; joke) **+** **DIT** (said [told] in French)
**PUNDIT** (expert) |
Think soldier, confined to bed, gets worried (8) | COGITATE | Definition: Think
(**GI **[soldier] **contained in** [confined to] **COT** [bed]) **+** **ATE** (worried)
**CO** (**GI**) **T** **ATE**
**COGITATE** (think) |
One struggles as a cricketer to get about fifty (7) | BATTLER | Definition: One struggles
**BATTER** (cricketer) **containing** (get about) **L** (Roman numeral for 50)
**BATT** (**L**) **ER**
**BATTLER** (one who struggles) |
Bird initially scared by sound of cat (4) | SMEW | Definition: Bird
**S** (**first letter of** [initially] **SCARED**) **+** **MEW** (the sound made by a cat)
**SMEW** (sea duck; bird) |
Certain enterprises destroying creative sport (7,6) | PRIVATE SECTOR | Definition: Certain enterprises
**Anagram of **(destroying) **CREATIVE SPORT**
**PRIVATE SECTOR** (the part of a country's economy owned, operated, etc, by private individuals and firms; certain enterprises) |
Cursing the amount board members get? (10) | EXECRATION | Definition: Cursing
**EXEC** (executives; the people who administrate a company; the board) **+** **RATION** (amount given)
**EXECRATION** (cursing) |
Caught two men together somewhere in S London (7) | CROYDON | Definition: somewhere in S London
**C** (caught, in cricket scoring notation) **+** (**ROY** [man's name] **+** **DON** [another man's name] giving two men together)
**CROYDON** (town in South London) |
Keep nursing fibrous tissue (6) | TENDON | Definition: fibrous tissue
**TEND** (nurse) **+** **ON** (continue) which taken together could be interpreted as keep nursing
**TENDON** (band of fibrous tissue) |
Transport on safari holiday, you say? (8,5) | SHOOTING BRAKE | Definition: Transport
**SHOOTING** (people on safari for hunting may go **SHOOTING**) **+** **BRAKE** (**sounds like** [you say] **BREAK** [holiday])
**SHOOTING BRAKE** (old estate car; type of transport) |
Set out to work in recording studio? (4,6) | MAKE TRACKS | Definition: Set out
**MAKE TRACKS** (work in a recording studio to produce **TRACKS** for CD, LP, MP3 etc)
**MAKE TRACKS** (set out) |
Dad's upset with mum maybe; that's quite obvious (8) | APPARENT | Definition: quite obvious
**PA** (father; dad) **reversed** (upset; down clue) **+** **PARENT** (mum is a **PARENT**)
**AP**< **PARENT**
**APPARENT** (quite obvious) |
Horsey fellow dispatched, we're told, to a city of old (7) | CENTAUR | Definition: Horsey fellow
**CENT** (**sounds like** [we're told] **SENT** [dispatched]) **+** **A** **+** **UR** (city of old in what was southern Mesopotamia)
**CENTAUR** (mythical creature, half man and half horse; horsey person) |
Maybe dodgy tyre could become louder going over motorway (7) | REMOULD | Definition: Maybe dodgy tyre
**Anagram of** (could become) **LOUDER** **containing** (going over) **M** (motorway)
**RE** (**M**) **OULD**
**REMOULD** ( used tyre which has had a new tread vulcanized to the casing and the walls coated with rubber; if made badly could be described as a dodgy tyre) |
Players travelling initially in Vauxhall car back to front (6) | ACTORS | Definition: Players
**T** (**first letter of** [initially] **TRAVELLERS**) **contained in **(in) (**CORS****A** ([model of Vauxhall car] with the **final letter** **A** **moved to the front** [back to front])
**AC** (**T**) **ORS**
**ACTORS** (players) |
Live with a posh fancy man (4) | BEAU | Definition: fancy man
**BE** (live) **+** **A** **+** **U** (posh)
**BEAU** (a man attentive to dress or fashion; a fop or dandy; a lover, boyfriend; fancy man) |
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