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off colour | Blue and not feeling well (3,6) |
upstanding | Honest reputation succeeds in court (10) |
enemy | Time not on our side? (5) |
pharisee | Self-righteous type damaged harp, I note (8) |
catapult | Missile launcher fitted to aircraft carriers (8) |
rat traps | Top performer accepts role reversal using pedals (3,5) |
musket | One from a long way off following scent finds gun (6) |
hisser | Python, perhaps, welcomes second TV series (6) |
mailer | Distance runner entertains a writer (6) |
mused | Thought of money spent (5) |
rote | How hack produced copy - reportedly by uninspired repetition (4) |
podium | Speaker's position, bottom of heap - shame (6) |
city | Classy girl leaves it in large town (4) |
stalking | Almost stop ruler after game? (8) |
palm | China's money tree (4) |
ventricle | Cavity with opening left inside grain (9) |
sensorium | Solving uses minor part of the brain (9) |
lunged | Dived without a springboard and hurtled forward (6) |
frightener | Scary thing, Frenchman turning on fellow conservative (10) |
to a t | Fur supplier has head shaved precisely (2,1,1) |
irateness | Arachne admires Cape Wrath (9) |
plantain | Insect burrowing into straight banana (8) |
nullifies | Abolishes work in full? That's the origin of socialism (9) |
wifely | As a married woman, her organisation procures an end to injustice in damsel, perhaps (6) |
turnkeys | Old jailers try to escape shift, perhaps (8) |
puking | Dog keeps family from throwing up (6) |
crankshaft | Many marshals handle part of an engine (10) |
carpeted | Lectured by Wilton? (8) |
pavement artists | They draw in the crowds (8,7) |
engraving | Work of art produced from scratch? (9) |
offers | Remove top of boxes to reveal presents (6) |
storms | Evidence of depression? (6) |
maroon | Dark red strand (6) |
quieting | Calming down, stopped taking dodgy Ecstasy with gin (8) |
lariat | Left with airtime to show picket line (6) |
tensile | Part of roof covering spaces that may be stretched (7) |
plainchant | One in church works outside creating religious music (10) |
siren song | Dangerous allure of wailing German (5,4) |
alf | He gets red if strangers address him (3) |
bitchy | Bishop's restless and vindictive (6) |
she bear | Cut around live creature (3,4) |
aromatic | A nameless fantasiser being spicy (8) |
tiller | Ploughman's lunch for a starter eaten by workman (6) |
brisbane | Port supplied by brother is poison (8) |
candyfloss | Sticky sweet stuff? Girl, do what dentist advises! (10) |
secrecy | Confidence in battle of the Home Counties? (7) |
hadji | I went on a pilgrimage to reverse the priority of holy war (5) |
close | Stop up for the end of play (5) |
referendum | Strange free goal in strange communal decision (10) |
ecoterrorism | Beasts as a pretext for violence etc? I'm so wrong to hold fallacy (12) |
such | Like following like? (4) |
yearbook | Annual time to arrest (8) |
severing | Cutting grass outside always (8) |
bloomer | Mistake involving a flower (7) |
reminder | What's left except a cue (8) |
trysting place | Go to smart spot for romantic rendezvous (8,5) |
filament | Expression of regret after car races on the Strand (8) |
studio flat | Boss and I recently cut accommodation (6,4) |
stone walls | Walton less likely to make a prison? (5,5) |
house arrest | Time required to tour Med, say, relax restriction on leaving home (5,6) |
strode | Took steps - stepped in Kent or possibly Dorset (6) |
eastby | No problem about consumption near Skipton (6) |
nabob | Name for what (or two) he has? (5) |
cloth | Companion absorbs a great deal of material (5) |
obtuseness | Set bonuses distributed with insensitivity (10) |
clabby doo | Shellfish rewriting the bloody ABC (6,3) |
circumferential | Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass (15) |
cisalpine | Is place in chaos south of the mountains? (9) |
betraying | Unintentionally revealing carrier, in essence (9) |
staves | Keeps including tenor in the musical score (6) |
echo | Sound returns with this city house (4) |
airy | Casual, physically fit, trains here (4) |
drainpipe | One dapper in fancy style of trouser? (9) |
ashore | A horse being exercised on the beach (6) |
nutriment | Three people tucking into fruit for sustenance (9) |
overland | French poet that is missing in climbing party can't get home like this (8) |
holster | An armrest? (7) |
laziness | Sloth a zookeeper's beginning to put in chains, attached to pole (8) |
plea | Call for energy in mountain climb (4) |
footing | Foundation investing money in error in recession (7) |
monorhyme | Type of verse inspired by daemon or Hymen (9) |
blameworthy | Mother, by law breaking, is culpable (11) |
gas trap | A star turn in a doctor to be a maintainer of air purity (3,4) |
burma | Something cheeky about capital of Rhodesia, a nation now renamed (5) |
janacek | New Year honours for a composer (7) |
cricket | The jumping game (7) |
foxy | Spotted old Whig close to Tory (4) |
trollope | Writer's tipple (bun included) (8) |
gremlins | Film men wrestling with girls (8) |
stewed | Set out to marry drunk (6) |
stuart | Union leader interrupts opening of royal house (6) |
idolised | Respected papers covering party spreading lies (8) |
grape | Shot for losing point of anchor - no end to this? (5) |
bearcats | Animals trained by Arabs etc (8) |
madeleine | Cake cooked by the French with a German centre (9) |
django reinhardt | Rock and roll's first grand hit, with Joe Strummer (6,9) |
open court | At an important point, what Rusedski might want in public hearing (4,5) |
two step | Domestic pig gets up on tiptoe to dance (3,4) |
richard the third | Is he the highest-ever bidder for bloodstock? (7,3,5) |
alb | A pound put on for service (3) |