Clues Answers Absolutely! ILLSAY Adviser MENTOR Ahead INFRONT Anxiety FEAR Brightness LIGHT Ceremony RITUAL Clothing ATTIRE Compete VIE Cultivate FARM Cycle of duty ROTA Fleshy fruit LYCHEE Football or cricket team ELEVEN Gaseous element HYDROGEN Golf club IRON Good humour CHEERFULNESS Help ASSIST Lack ABSENCE Lazy IDLE Legume BEAN Middle-Eastern country SYRIA Proposal OFFER Reddish-brown…

Clues Answers Aquarium fish GUPPY Care for NURTURE Cash register TILL Children’s game ISPY Dethrone UNSEAT Diamond knitwear pattern ARGYLE Drifter TRAMP Facility AMENITY Farewell BYE Gather again REGROUP Gerbil, e.g. RODENT Group of musicians OCTET Hard outer layer CRUST Heroes IDOLS Nonsense TWADDLE Oak, e.g. TREE Practical; leap dip (anag.) APPLIED Quit RESIGN Relating…

Clues Answers Badly thought-out MISCONCEIVED Bed covering DUVET Bread maker BAKER Bucket PAIL Cheese BRIE Digit NINE Drunkard SOT Emits light SHINES Female deer or rabbit DOE Finds out ASCERTAINS Gives way YIELDS Long tales SAGAS Loud noise; scheme RACKET Magic spells INCANTATIONS Newspaper boss EDITOR No (colloq.) NAY Old coin DUCAT Roof timber RAFTER…

Clues Answers Broad and slow (music) LARGO Carve CUT Cry of derision CATCALL Darkness NIGHT Dessert BLANCMANGE Devotee ADDICT Ebbed RECEDED Extreme UTMOST Further EXTRA Gaelic ERSE Home of Goliath GATH Imprison INTERN Interweave ENTWINE Killjoy SPOILSPORT Loyal subject LIEGE Mild MEEK Monarch EMPEROR Motet (anag.) TOTEM Naval officer PURSER Oil mess (anag.) LISSOME Ostracised…

Clues Answers Also TOO Backpack, e.g. BAG Celebrity STAR Deity GOD Deserved EARNED District AREA Endure STAND Eradication REMOVAL Fathers DADS Female relative GRANDMA Flora PLANTS Get older AGE Glad PLEASED Goes out with DATES Hair cleaner SHAMPOO Mischievous fairies ELVES Moan COMPLAIN One from Prague, say CZECH Parts ELEMENTS Picture IMAGE Powerful STRONG Precise…

Clues Answers Allow PERMIT Canadian city WINNIPEG Capital city METROPOLIS Conjuror’s stick WAND Dog’s foot, e.g. PAW Evergreen tree YEW Everlasting ETERNAL Fruit APRICOT Gourmet EPICURE Impolite RUDE Leave out OMIT Male goose GANDER Mend REPAIR Nocturnal bird NIGHTJAR Outing; stumble TRIP Pale purple colour LAVENDER Parrot MACAW Pry SNOOP Reserve SUBSTITUTE Ride fast GALLOP…

Clues Answers Amaze STUN Appear TURNUP Bag SAC Cleaner DETERGENT Cutting tool RIPSAW Devil IMP Exhilarating ELECTRIC Fissure GAP Government staff CIVILSERVICE Hooray! WHOOPEE Initially ATFIRST Large croaker BULLFROG Like omelettes? EGGY Nonsense GIBBERISH Outlaw BAN Overnight do SLUMBERPARTY Passage AISLE Passerine bird STARLING Plain UGLY Red stone RUBY Red-brown AUBURN Relative NIECE Snuffly dwarf?…

Clues Answers Askew AWRY Backward RETROGRADE Count up ADD Crowd MOB Decapod CRAB Disfigure SCAR Falling-out DISAGREEMENT Fast car, perhaps RACER Grandeur POMP Irritable RATTY Lapwing PLOVER Menacing OMINOUS Money CASH More profound DEEPER Munch CHEW Not often SELDOM Open OVERT Outfit GETUP Paddle OAR Penguin; got one (anag.) GENTOO Ploy TACTIC Prop STRUT Small…

Clues Answers Academic DON Adverse NEGATIVE Behind REAR Belly GUT Boomerang BACKFIRE Cancel ABOLISH Coach TRAINER Copy CLONE Creed BELIEF Dreadful DIRE Euphoric ELATED Exam TEST Expense COST Finish END Insane MAD Intentional DELIBERATE Maritime NAUTICAL Memorable CATCHY Pole ROD Posse GANG Prohibit BAN Rapture BLISS Repair MEND Scared FRIGHTENED Speck DOT Start OUTSET Tense…

Clues Answers Artist’s board PALETTE Bird noise CHIRP Carroll heroine ALICE Change over SWITCH Chest area THORAX Concealing HIDING Crumbly white cheese FETA Dupe used by someone else CATSPAW Eternal AGELESS Fainted SWOONED Floor cover CARPET Genitive and dative, e.g. CASES Heartbeat PULSE Macbeth, e.g. THANE Passive INERT Person receiving money PAYEE Plectrum PICK Possessions…