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mess | Canteen stew? (4) |
diehard | Reactionary assembly, grim for its time (7) |
lintel | Part of the architecture of artificial intelligence (6) |
willis | Fixity of purpose is needed by fast bowler, as before (6) |
heath | Blasted politician? (5) |
wine | Complain, putting away hot drink (4) |
imam | Prominent Muslim maiden coming in an hour after midnight (4) |
disgorge | Pour out from the throat of hell? (8) |
qigong | BBC programme's award for meditation technique (6) |
altering | Changing integral formation (8) |
irate | Rodent that's about to get ratty? (5) |
expel | Peel gets cross, upset and put out (5) |
theic | Corrupt ethic of one taking excessive tea breaks? (5) |
thief | He gets time, if he's crooked (5) |
tea for two | Old number eight's heel on loose footwear (3,3,3) |
habitat | It's the custom at home (7) |
pack | Four suits put in case? (4) |
acedia | Sloth of one rejecting help (6) |
striptease | Band has meals on top of oriental entertainment (10) |
titled | Noble bird went ahead (6) |
grease monkey | Make climbing trees difficult for mechanic (6,6) |
episode | I love speed when in motion in the event (7) |
swindle | Monkey taken in by contemptible character's fraud (7) |
st asaph | Pa's hat's new in town (2,5) |
blessing | Unfinished game receives not so much approval (8) |
beagle | Darwin's crafty dog (6) |
april | A danger out East at this time of the year (5) |
rookie | Piece that is for beginner (6) |
teeth | Those biting heads off tarantulas, eating even tiny hairs (5) |
arising | A riot is developing (7) |
refer | Look up, one way or the other (5) |
equinal | Twice-yearly event with no beef - instead a line of horses (7) |
handicap | The golfer's problem? (8) |
blimpish | Mistake about uneven movement characteristic of old soldier (8) |
cliff | Scar on the landscape at Dover (5) |
assent | Nod when told to go? (6) |
halfwits | Fools semi-wild or semi-nuts? (8) |
imbibed | One doctor needs one bed - drunk! (7) |
stewards | Those officiating care for parking in stages (8) |
weepy | Prone to cry "Insignificant party's artless!" (5) |
dominates | One name among party cronies calls the shots (9) |
electoral | Register type to choose exam (9) |
bookmaker | Might one interest better author? (9) |
truncate | Cut short series about to be shown in gallery (8) |
permit | OK, you might do this to shock (6) |
ha ha | Mini found in ditch (2,2) |
belfry | Championship golfers using clubs or bats in here? (6) |
serves time | Goes down and dishes up porridge (6,4) |
street door | Badger resorted to exit by road (6,4) |
secret | Covert introduction of Scripture to cult (6) |
grand fir | US wood grain fared oddly after treatment (5,3) |
assuming | Arrogant, if true (8) |
home ruler | Poet includes appeal backing fighter for independence (4,5) |
reared | Are in debt, but managed to bring up the children (6) |
bearish | Short-tempered with prices falling? (7) |
candidate | Frank dined with the contestant (9) |
welshed | Did better? (7) |
play | It's somebody's work, oddly enough (4) |
eying | Looking, for example, round a basic principle of Chinese philosophy (5) |
ducks | Avoids garments of coarse cloth (5) |
atlanta | Attending worker in one US city or another (7) |
wraiths | Passion finally erupts when Nutmeg's drunk spirits (7) |
shoo | Endless rush - don't hang around! (4) |
portmanteaus | Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them (12) |
aftermath | Results of changes at the farm (9) |
asleep | Having dropped off, like covering to be put back (6) |
narrator | Decay on Scottish isle to the west, one can tell (8) |
fiddle | Theologian exposed in papers as cheat (6) |
errorless | Right panic, time to go and save (9) |
panache | Criticise long dash (7) |
george gershwin | Best of United's wingers running round Hearts scorer? (6,8) |
bought | Procured branch on treetop (6) |
libido | Offer covered by crude oil drive (6) |
archetype | "It's typical month - no money" (English person) (9) |
idol | Kind soul regularly the subject of much love (4) |
arboretums | Where they might bring back the birch? (10) |
first mates | Adam and Eve as ship's officers? (5,5) |
post chaise | Old coach is last to leave, following after tea (4,6) |
tehran | Capital is what artist required in Tennessee (6) |
mae west | Mother strangely sweet on famous film-star (3,4) |
severely | Very badly cut off, having got to isle (8) |
tribalism | Group loyalty shown when party returned is in good shape (9) |
pro tem | Publicists individually turning to me for now (3,3) |
june | I keep a French month (4) |
alchemy | Longing to trap learner with setter's mystic art (7) |
pear trees | Conferences in the garden (4,5) |
naphtha | Flammable liquid ruined hat after hot vessel tipped over (7) |
manifesto | Public declaration in the show ring (9) |
prosit | Good health shown by professional model (6) |
aspidistra | Plant part is said to be regenerated (10) |
filmstrips | Shoots on outings series of pictures (10) |
pooter | Lupin raiser, this Holloway journalist (6) |
plasma | Place like Outer Mongolia, it's in the blood (6) |
army | Mob foolish without leader (4) |
jampan | The chair to criticise following a difficult situation (6) |
parky | Chilly, like Hyde? (5) |
hoopoe | Weed obscuring duck, work to see bird (6) |
heisted | The side knocked out was robbed (7) |
expedition | Dispatch old penny publication (10) |
imprest | Advance while the devil's on holiday (7) |