Clues Answers Abandons doctor before operations DROPS Alluring sorcery hiding trap MAGNETIC Avoid manuscript about lives MISS Blot napkin dispersed directly POINTBLANK Brooded being upset by insanity somewhere in Australia TASMANIA Cheer pilot flying aircraft HELICOPTER Compromised goal caused ill feelings ENDANGERED Daring fellow without sense of sound? FEARLESS Dump and kick creep TIPTOE Entrails…

Clues Answers Beat PULSE Castrated horse GELDING Citrus fruit LEMON Composure APLOMB Defender GUARDIANANGEL Distort SKEW Do list (anag.) STOLID Dog – jumper? SPRINGER Drive forward IMPEL Entrails – waste parts of a butchered animal OFFAL Extinguish – powdered tobacco SNUFF Floating whale food PLANKTON Fragmented BUST Clues Answers Garment – cut-in (anag.) TUNIC Good…

Clues Answers 2003 film for which Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for best original screenplay LOSTIN Area of London, site of the new US embassy NINEELMS Character played by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix NEO Citizens of northern Sri Lanka and southern India TAMILS City in Essex on the Thames estuary SOUTHENDONSEA Comic opera by…

Clues Answers A knob in drawer, currently? ANODE A little water I required in relaxation before work RAINDROP A quote recalled by the way, passionless APATHETIC Appear just if seamer proves unreliable SEEMFAIR Aussie crook having fed prisoner, one’s stuffed PILLOW Bloomer in this setter short of a failing? LUPIN Broadcast indicated might in giant…

Clues Answers Ability to do something KNACK Bit of bad language OATH Cause of one’s downfall UNDOING Cheese-making ingredient RENNET Corrective REMEDIAL Flexible ELASTIC Fund ENDOW Horse, or footballer? KICKER I Know ___ I’m Going!: 1945 Powell and Pressburger film WHERE Karl ___, German publisher known for travel guides BAEDEKER Making useful contacts NETWORKING Novelty…

Clues Answers Average – means MEDIUM China CROCKERY Defamatory comments in print LIBEL Foreign policy of Ancient Rome IMPERIALISM He’s a weakling MILKSOP Irritating buzzer? WASP Island nation southeast of India SRILANKA Lazy, unkempt individual SLOB Number (between zero and nine) DIGIT One will create drama PLAYWRIGHT Pointer ARROW Regard – Nato mid-air (anag) ADMIRATION…

Clues Answers A badge for fooling around? BADINAGE Appetiser is able to simulate CANAPE Birds on seaside spot to start with, eating what they eat OSPREYS Booze trashed what’s within school walls ALCOHOL Bringing back earlier TV production RETRIEVAL Covers eyes, we hear, to turn over CAPSIZE Dealing with cake that’s seasonal without filling and…

Clues Answers Aid when driving in day time in Suffolk town DIPSWITCH American state banks prepare to fire old leader, getting high-flying duo ALCOCKANDBROWN Break bags I take once more RESIT Country doing no harm deposing government BENIN Distance displayed by daughter accompanying escorts WIDTH Doctor upset water drops in cut MOWED Dressing fairly famous…

Clues Answers Be cooperative PLAYBALL Cloistered MONASTIC Coil-shaped fossil AMMONITE Cricket score FOUR Desire to eat things other than food PICA Flood ONRUSH Gather, pick CULL Grasp the situation TWIG Like wet grass DEWY Plant such as the cuckoopint ARUM Prepare to perform WARMUP Rejection of one’s faith APOSTASY Clues Answers Reproductive cell GAMETE Rub…

Clues Answers 1970 song by The Kinks LOLA Behaves ACTS Deceptive individual KNAVE Doubtful individual SCEPTIC Elite CREAM Got down from a vehicle ALIGHTED Hard ____, 1854 novel by Charles Dickens TIMES High-maintenance individual DIVA It’s thrown by heptathletes JAVELIN Miscues the (anag) – player’s guide SHEETMUSIC Notepad – or one who writes in it…