Clues Starting With

e

European language

Explain with pictures

European republic; capital Bucharest

Employed American journalist

Efficiently brief (5,3,5)

Example of animated epic with humans chasing monsters, ultimately (8)

Extract from psychotherapist's article (3)

End of equation should = 0 (6)

Envy, resent (8)

Eye infection (4)

Eyelid swelling

Exchange roles with no-hoper

Evaluated trade incorrectly

Emperors of stars, possibly

Eastern lake is creepy

Experience uncharitable emotion when taking over from diplomat

Egotist from South America thus raced back (9)

Explosive mixture (9)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Execute dance, with Romeo standing in for Victor (7)

Endless clues for Rod's basket and tack (see below) (6-4-5)

Even in case of forgery one paper appears twice (5-5)

Exaggerated publicity

Eric —, Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot

Erich —, head of state of East Germany from 1976-89

Evergreen tree of the Mediterranean with edible, shiny black fruits

Expert standing beside a large old member of cattle family

Enthusiasm after good stink from ancient incendiary weapon

Epigrammatic Japanese poem (5)

Endless spin in many institutions starts around copier (8)

Extensive slaughter

Emile —, French author of the novels Germinal and Therese Raquin

Emotional about particle

Edges of a roof

Everything unknown to friend

Extremely hungry (8)

Exotic performer

Extremities of planet full of spirit (7)

Everybody on the voyage completely nonplussed (3,2,3)

Eat away in a buffet cheaply enough, perhaps (4)

Exceptionally gifted person 6) (6)

Event, occurrence

Edward —, 1983 World Championships shot put gold medallist

Element of victory?

European royal family has swamped Britain with revolting food (8)

Evil king to fall (4)

Elephant’s long pointed tooth

Eurasian plant also called goosegrass with small white flowers and prickly fruits

Encouraged compassion to treat need

Everyone here is put on by firm (7,7)

Everybody having bottoms raised, hands down (3,4,2)

Extreme greed for riches

Eric —, comedian-writer who authored 2005 volume of biography If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will

Encountered the police in London

Exhausted (5,3)

Enrolled as a member

Extra fight has energy

Entreat for three keys

Enjoy archaeology

Expert in tracery

Edward —, composer of 1900 oratorio The Dream of Gerontius

Expensive-sounding animal

Exaggerate report of eggs condition

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Expatriates (6)

European river (5)

Extra covered by the Rules of Cricket, Law 26 part 2

Encountered the police in London

English fellow getting reaction for unrestrained outpouring in speech

Engrossing thriller of a book (4-6)

Eager trainee losing end of decider on points (7)

Ephemeral nature of rotting nectarines (10)

Ever-changing swerve

Exchange of tennis shots

Encourage boy to keep up looking left and right

Entrance or exit (6)

Emerge from an egg (5)

Eric prepared some food

Encourage farm produce

Earls wandering in the light

European Organisation for Nuclear Research (4)

Eats possibly, as some in France outside home (5)

Endearingly pretty

Extra studies hold up government-appointed 'expert'

Exchange of views (12)

Explode, as fool stands on foot (2,3)

Examine permits for slots (7)

Experience essential to keeping resort modern (7)

Excavate almost everything with the fingers (7)

Early leaver (3)

Ernest —, English painter whose works include 1885's The Bitter Draught of Slavery

Entertainer ran to adorer

Elegy awful, Gray initially admitted (5)

English runner participating in Jakarta Marathon (5)

Excavate almost everything with the fingers (7)

Early leaver (3)

Eight-sided figure

Extremely great, stupendous

E E —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys

Extra pears are used

Exotic dancer surely not suitable for all Johnsons?

Excavate almost everything with the fingers (7)

Early leaver (3)

Egyptian god of music and pleasure

English boy punches judge ... BOOM!

Erstwhile; formerly (7)

Early morning service (9,3)

Earlier than the time when

European —, small marine food fish also called a brisling

Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros

Entertaining company (6)

Eat around six? Wonderful! (6)

European travel: journey is a gratifying experience (3-4)

Emphasise policy must follow European articles (9)

Elaborate charade about time left for city feature (9)

European river (6)

Eight-piece group

Extremists — cut fingernail (anag) (7,6)

Everybody let son and daughter cut grass on 1/11 (3,7,3)

Each master eats pastry (6)

Emerge again to gather fruit (8)

European —, small marine food fish also called a brisling

Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros

Element of victory?

Edge of the machine

Elaborate on line in bill, leading man to appeal (6,3,5)

Exile keeping unruly racists in order (9)

English county (5)

Eurasian plant with yellow flowers also called the Lent Lily

Essentially legal, personal habit

Eighth planet from the sun (7)

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Explicit sex possibly involves president

Elgar (anag) (5)

Eight-sided polygon (7)

Employs for wages (5)

Expressing of expert opinions

Enjoyed oneself, having tricked sailor - and everyone

Economic downswing (5)

Encountered (3)

Extent of anger varies

European capital

European in need of right anorak

Essential element of Depression: onset of hunger (4)

East Midlands town doctor set child free (12)

Eggs, when split by line, part (4)

European region's loud people being grounded (8)

Endless surly noise to become greater (4)

Extract, remove

Eve —, actress who portrayed Wallis Simpson in 2010 biopic The King's Speech

English composer

Extremely crafty journalists found in tree

Easy when half-cut, checks for groups with attractive bodies

Extremely sharp (7)

Exercise authority (4,3,4)

Excessive loss of water from the body (11)

Elaborate parade (7)

Estimable, decent

European with present trouble grasping English divine command (3,5,2,5)

Expression of regret

Educational establishment

English name of the Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea where the Venus de Milo was found

Either of the two canines in the upper jaw

Ending in death

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Enthuse about Vera

Edges of a roof

Equal with one couple

Equal with one couple

Established religious ceremony (4)

Extraordinarily powerful article Poirot was on to (9)

External route diverted (5)

Error in casting Cinderela? (8,7)

Enter construction with German royal stand-in

Encourages farm produce

Enter construction with German royal stand-in

Encourages farm produce

Elephantine trumpetings? (5,5)

Extend a banquet (6)

Enveloped with what's revised by the editor (7)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

E M —, author of 1930 novel Diary of a Provincial Lady

Enjoy wagging tail using fingers

Exercise gives quiet energy

Enjoy wagging tail using fingers

Exercise gives quiet energy

Endless crude oil misused by humans? Absurd

Element burning with pong when current put through

Endless danger for one of the little folk (4)

Exploratory spacecraft

Edward —, author of 1962 stage play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

E.g. setter's tight post-holiday state

Express statements of resistance in French and English (3-4)

Eg including this artist is superficially damaging (5)

Eldest son of Cain in the Old Testament

Emilie —, 2007 Mexican Open singles tennis champion

Errors student has avoided in small quantities

Endless sin, in that degree, will engage Rector and other ministers

Excellent account, with documentation, about movement – vinegary stuff

Everything unknown disregarded by supporter

Edmund —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Mister 880

Egg-shaped wind instrument also called a sweet potato

English nurses hosting foremost of Xmas spreads

Engrossed; hellbent (6)

Earliest form of modern human in Europe (3-6,3)

Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (5)

Expressionless (7)

Enemy puts iron ring inside

European capital

Equipment cut by northern contract

Engrained dirt (5)

Essential sign in heart oddly ignored (5)

East German in mature comeback (7)

Enough said, every now and then, on match (8)

Elephant's long teeth (5)

Extinct language of ancient southern Italy

Engineers sit and relax

Entirely lacking (6)

Everybody returns to embrace old woman (4)

Erupt suddenly on holiday abroad?

Egypt's river would be nothing without Egypt's capital

Everything under the sun I ever recollected (8)

Engelbert —, Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1932-34

Exceptionally cold and definitively negative (7)

Equal with one couple

Earls running to the light

English learnt painfully, never to be forgotten

Exist longer than (7)

Edward —, Pre-Raphaelite painter whose works include 1884 oil King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid

Everything unknown to friend

Explosion is fun

Enforces one's authority by coming down hard (6,3,4)

Extremely disappointed; thoroughly fed- up (4,2,1,6)

Eagle's nest (5)

Electricity supply (5)

Enjoy archaeology

Extract from author describing multitude

Excessively focussed on one area, rewriting adverse policies (15)

Earthenware (7)

Excellent selection

Edible crustacean

End of June still cold

Exchange of prisoners rejected (4)

Element of victory

Emperor going round old country could be positive or negative

Everyone in competition for conscription

Economy measure called for by movie director?

Ex-vice president good to go once more (4)

Eisenhower's nickname (3)

Exhibit or display

Elder, for example, in family diagram

Exceptionally good woman meets resistance

European peak (3)

End fuel crisis as required (7)

Evidently doesn't suffer in silence (5,2,4)

Excess flesh (3)

East German car launched in 1957 that was built at Zwickau

Europeans with great dogs

Extremely desirable sort of editor

Europe sometimes requires this currency

Emperor is to keep sleeping, interrupted by lion (8)

Examinations of any sales subject to corruption (8)

Evidently doesn't suffer in silence (5,2,4)

Excess flesh (3)

Exaggerated publicity

Expensive pets turn out to have energy

Elegance without the French pen

Evidently doesn't suffer in silence (5,2,4)

Excess flesh (3)

Engineers set to relax

Exhausted and broke

Eagerly expectant (4)

Equine animal (5)

Emánuel —, Hungarian composer and inventor of a two-keyboard piano

Extremely talented person (7)

Enormous honour presented by Home Counties (5)

Equipment army used to imprison resistance (3,4)

Embarrass person of substance when lot includes forgery (3,5)

Expose bias on television, where radical thinking may take place (7,3,3)

Eastern team the French made outcasts (6)

Experts in it will tell you if a stray moon is about (9)

Eye covering (5)

Elfenesh —, winner of the 2003 Tokyo International Women's Marathon

Edmund —, English tragic actor whose roles included Shylock at Drury Lane in 1814

Edgar Allan —, US short story writer who died in 1849

Equal with one couple

Extremely awkward teacher reveals accessory

Example of punctuation almost unprecedented in official statement (10)

Eccentric dispute in delta region (8)

Exalted figures in the theatre

Enjoy wagging tail using fingers

Enraged Indiana bank crushes strike (8)

Emerge from an egg

Exclusive news story

European plant also known as a wood hyacinth or harebell

Eric —, WBC Super Middleweight champion from 2001-03

Eastern European

Emend a text (4)

Evening party (6)

Elk has right to be gloomy

Endure with less energy

English poet is religious leader

Emilio —, actor whose roles have included William H Bonney in 1988 action film Young Guns

Edgar —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1877's Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Edward —, 19th-century English humorist noted for nonsense poems such as The Jumblies

Escaped to form union

Economist associated with Milton

Emil —, painter and engraver whose works include 1913 lithograph The Three Kings

English golfer who won the 1987 Panasonic European Open

Euphoric; cock-a-hoop (6)

Exonerate and discharge (3,3)

Explosion in 15? (6)

Every single ache (4)

Extended journey (4)

Edible crustacean (4)

Eskimo boat (5)

Elephant in stories for children by Jean de Brunhoff

English actor associated with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who was knighted in 1930

Exhaust me, returning to America retired (8)

Encourage German to enter naked (5)

Examine boss on the end of slavery (5)

Excellent pedigree on the railway? (5,5)

Explosion is fun

Embarrassing display of emotion as part of play

Expressed contempt in petty quarrel

Except broken vase

Excellent fruit

Expert history teacher?

Eastern politician bound to be exhausted

English physicist, remembered for his law of gravitation, d. 1726 (6)

End of a prayer

Extra pears were used

Exclude its coarse form

Excluded poet, say

Engineers have always to get respect

Early in the afternoon daughter made amends

Entitlement (5)

European food fish similar to the turbot

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Expert in a particular field

Engineers beat off discount

Eccentric Israeli composer

Elegant comfort (6)

Encountered (3)

Elm, for example (4)

English name for the port in Nord, France, that saw a mass evacuation of troops in 1940

Email hacked by a girl

Extraordinary singer's last appearance live (4)

Everything unknown to friend

Enjoy your meal in Paris?

Easily disgusted (9)

Express exception (to) (5)

Eternal pursuit of the happy ending (4,5)

Emphatically not at home! (3,3,3)

Excessively adorned

Exhibit or display

Estimate based on experience — deduce sea gust (anag) (8,5)

Educating ___ , 1980 Willy Russell stage comedy (4)

Eventually finish parody, scratching head (3,2)

Easily seen or detected

Embitters wild beast behind tree

Errant Don, I, with a fiasco for the fans? (11)

European or American in book title (4)

Electrical connection in lair

Encourage farm produce

Excellent player (8)

Expectorated (4)

Extra playing card

Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout

European plant of the pink family whose leaves yield a detergent when bruised

Eric prepared some food

Entertain fellow with beer

European capital

Edible crustacean

Eye membrane (6)

Extreme greed for riches

Excessive enthusiasm shown by some Tasmanians

End of the line? (8)

Entered cinema, excitedly (4,2)

Everyone embraces first female to get academic qualification (1,5)

Early invader lacking an approved standard (4)

Eland, for example (8)

Elias —, 17th-century antiquary whose collection of artefacts and library was donated to Oxford University

Employer’s new ruse

Eccentric, Beryl? Hope that's exaggeration (9)

Elastic synthetic fabric whose brand names include Lycra

Element of victory

Easy task (6,4)

End of life (5)

Eat steadily and audibly

Elisabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas

Expert yearned to be stretched

Escape route (4)

Europeans make eyepiece with high finish (5)

Evidence of right to a name (5)

Enclosure with bars

Entertain fellow with beer

Escape punishment and go to sleep

Erstwhile plum duffer (5)

Empress turned up when cross (8)

Evidence of right to a name (5)

Explosion is fun

Exert force; the Fourth Estate (5)

Earthy pigment containing ferric oxide

Encourage farm produce

Extra about Rome

EU slang involved in a Catholic prayer (7)

Extremely suggestive text sent to musicians (6)

Edge into church for sin (5)

Enough to correspond after a date (8)

Excluded poet, we hear

Egg on hamburger? Not entirely!

Excessive pride (9)

Express difficulty finding temporary solution (5,3)

Extra note is switched for two (8)

Express an opinion (5)

Enterprise shown by Labour leader? Nonsense!

Extremely selfish, muscular Atlas did (8)

Electrical interference

Environmental organisation whose headquarters are in Amsterdam

Eldest of the three sons of Noah in the Old Testament

European vegetable

Extra-terrestrial

Extremely short dress revealed by flashing light

Embarrassing predicament (6)

Evans —, 2004 London Marathon and Chicago Marathon men's race winner

Eric prepared some food

Equal to in importance or quality

Eurasian legless lizard with a snake-like body

Escort a damaged ship

Eastern European turns up with iodine in medicine bottles

E R —, former England Test cricket captain born in Milan, Italy, in 1935

Exercise may provide nutrition

Epithet; additional title (3-4)

Embarrassing error; crusty white bread (7)

Establish (3,2)

European country (5)

Entrance with gold dessert

Explosive found on beach

Eccentrics with empty tins for scraps

Endlessly chilly in depression (3)

Easy shot, we hear, over key stronghold (7)

Extremely canny gentlemen edit what's produced by pen (6)

Evidence of overeating by public body? (11)

Extra playing card (5)

Empire's ruler (7)

Expert, proficient

Earth's one source of electricity consumed by factory (6)

Expert missing home went on cutting rose from Cape? (7,3)

End of flight, outdoors and in (7)

Edward —, author of 1965 stage play Saved

Eats healthily as tides change

Energy saving scheme

Except vase gets broken

Engineers follow, but not wholesale

Enclosures for swans

Exhibiting confidence (7)

Expose more of text, namely by revolutionary movement (6)

Enclosed what's written, but not using word processor (6)

Egg’s outer covering

Explosive cat is terribly arrogant

Exclude from pub

Endlessly hearing about rupture

Equip with masts or sails (3)

Electric discharge between two points (3)

Excessively sentimental film or book

Evergreen or deciduous tree or shrub whose fruit is the acorn

Enamelled or lacquered metal ware popular in the 18th century

Editor went mad and ran amok

Expensive, the French part of church

Expressionless (5)

Expert insight for furnishing (9)

Evaluated trade incorrectly

Easily bent (6)

Eight-sided figure

Encountered aluminium, or something like it

Entered; explored (4,4)

Exercises to improve oxygen levels (8)

Early animal shelter (3)

Explosive device (6,4)

Eagle's nest (5)

Eagerly expectant (4)

European language

Emblem right for nocturnal mammal

Earthenware beer mug

Evaluation, estimation

Employed American journalist

Embodiment in flower

Expensive fur (coat) (4)

Endlessly regular, in his place (5)

Edible marine gastropod mollusc also called a sea-ear

Exclude from the pub

Eton chap designed memorial

Express, for example

Eager to have paintings around study

Enclosure for female swan

Equally skilful with either hand (12)

Everything for Montgomery? (3,4,5)

Endorsement of commercial choice (8)

Encouragement or help

Ending in death

Engineers packing and getting back

Essential — lively (5)

Eatery within media company short of meat (6)

Expert wished good riddance? (8)

Extreme bit of grammatical timing? (7)

Engage in pugilism (3)

End of road — politician in criminal case bunks off (7)

Extreme bit of grammatical timing? (7)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Eurasian plant whose aromatic leaves are used as herbs for seasoning

Eric is beheaded by cruel king

Extreme bit of grammatical timing? (7)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Elderly get enclosed, but not initially

Excessively as well

Eccentric message

Evaluating a sailor

Enquire in the backstreet for jobs (5)

Early Latin translation of the Bible prepared mainly by St Jerome

Each class function (7)

Each cat essentially spies a tree (6)

Evergreen flowering shrub

Electricity supply

Employed American journalist

Extreme poverty (6)

European bridge: one should start leading hearts (7)

Essential person or thing

Erik —, French composer of 1917 ballet Parade

Extent of anger varies

Encountered rock half underground

Edible green seeds (4)

Equilibrium (7)

Edward is not here, apparently, but famous (5)

Exercising weight

European capital

Emphasize a modern complaint

Expresses an opinion (6)

Exclusive story (5)

Excellent selection

Enclosures for swans

Exasperate by ordering a race bet

Emotionally excited (3,2)

Entertainment venue close to bath full of chlorine (9)

Escapes including receipts? They shouldn't really be seen (3-5)

Ecological style of writing about to be promoted (5)

Expresses an opinion (6)

Exclusive story (5)

Edible internal parts of an animal, such as the heart and liver

Every ache is treated

Enemy forced to land

Enriched sand processed to make porcelain

Extremely upsetting (3-9)

Expresses an opinion (6)

Exclusive story (5)

Ending is lean if altered

Eventually alter form

Emperor discovering duck on north-eastern river

Even-tempered, calm (6)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Electronic message (1-4)

Eat or drink noisily (5)

Enjoying continued success

Either of the two egg-shaped masses of grey matter at the base of the brain

Equal with one couple

Employer restricted by house rules

Examine empty trolley that's barely sufficient

Eyesight problem making distant objects appear blurred (6)

Elation (anag) — protection for 18 (7)

Edge into church at a war zone (6)

Expedient appreciated by bored pupils? (5-4)

Expression of frustration about European taxes (5)

Eccentric has row in Cyprus (6)

Enormous cat in it (7)

Eagle's nest (5)

Exchange or swap

Easy alternative

Emphasise dialect

European nation

Engine on rails (abbr) (4)

English rock band formed in the 1960s (6,3)

English writer upset about first letter from Greece — or a later one (5)

European —, small marine food fish also called a brisling

Elaborate accompanied song for solo voice in an opera

Expected to have quiet daughter fooled

Endless military drill (informal) (6-7)

Everything is plain at the end of the emergency (3,5)

Expose to view (4)

Extremely ugly (7)

Establish (3,2)

Excellent team run by peer

Estonia's perplexed with old barren state (10)

Edible, marine, bivalve mollusc found on the sea bed

Eric —, Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot

Elegant groom, last in vestry

Eccentric eats filth? C'est la vie!

Excellent number with no factors

Emit gas and perhaps smoke around gallery (8)

European capital

Ettore —, Italy-born car manufacturer who died in France in 1947

Exchange roles with no-hoper

Elk has right to be dejected

Ethnicity lessons in Ascot, for example

Enticing everyone to join university band

Effect of over-indulgence (8)

Elongated eel-like fish of the North Atlantic

Evangeline —, Canadian actress whose roles have included Connie James in 2008 film drama The Hurt Locker

Extra expansive

Explosive device right for underground worker

Essex town providing staff for plane, maybe (11)

Eg Romeo dismissing Juliet's second film sequence (7)

Euro MP worried about current mass market (8)

Exalted crowd for the service (4,4)

Errol —, actor who played the title role in 1942 biopic Gentleman Jim

Entertainer turned to drama

Equestrian clause

Entertainer who performs dance routines with a python or boa constrictor (5,7)

Examiner buttons lip for a term (9)

Eugene O'Neill stage play which opened in New York in 1924

Ed —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for Sweet Bird of Youth

English woman's indicator of rank?

Ernestine freed people who are locked up

Elastic synthetic fabric — expands (anag) (7)

Escapade (for a bird?) (4)

Establish oneself in bandsmen's concerts (8)

Exceeding normal limits

Extremely large

Eighth son of Jacob in the Bible; ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel

Eisteddfod winner, dull, turned up (4)

Establish oneself in bandsmen's concerts (8)

Eyelid swelling

Express gratitude to

Exercise for the stomach muscles (3-2)

Establish oneself in bandsmen's concerts (8)

Edible crustacean

Erki —, 2000 Olympic decathlon gold medallist

English knight with fine former shroud

Enclosure for sport

Edward —, Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1965-67

Elementary particle of antimatter with the same mass as an electron, but a positive charge

Excessively as well

Exactly according to landlady

Everything that is bad finally is related

Eccentricity of Foreign Office manual lacking introduction (6)

Extravagant queen gets aquatic beast (5)

Exaggeratedly masculine

Elaine —, actress who directed, co-wrote and co-starred in 1971 romcom A New Leaf

Exclude from pub

Extremely lazy? Lie on bed for a change

End the French tax levied by French king! (6)

Easy scoring chance (6)

Especially or essentially

Enjoy wagging tail using fingers

Enraged, demanded reform

Encourage in doing wrong (4)

Emile —, French author of the novels Germinal and Therese Raquin

Extinct reptile is around in changed form

Ed's remarks about shift worker?

European shrub with pink or white flowers and aromatic blue-black berries

Early form of sonar developed by the British between the two world wars (inits)

European leader has two men thrown out

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Extremely (4,2)

Endeavour of a worker to come in sober (7)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

European food fish similar to the turbot

Encourage farm produce

Element of victory?

Effective narration

Encroach (on) (7)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Efficient and methodical

Empowering girl with flashy jewellery

Exaggeration, overstatement (9)

Elaborate, embellish (9)

Exploratory spacecraft

Enlist loner somehow

English royal dynasty

Empty cell affair causing uproar

Empty shores in which you'll see bird moves quickly (6)

Egalitarian, like a teacher without pupils? (9)

Engage in commercially (4)

Emits light (6)

Earl employed to cover up one showing signs of old age? (4-6)

Egalitarian, like a teacher without pupils? (9)

Engage in commercially (4)

Emits light (6)

Eucalyptus tree of south-eastern Australia also called a But-but

Everyone is seen after fine trip

Exposed poet swallowing tablet

English port in separate country

Earth’s satellite

Elizabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Encourage around circuit

Enthusiast left, finished

Energy saving scheme

Expert covering right amount of land

Excused for having caused an explosion

European flower — a little tender honeysuckle

Egalitarian wish for everybody to excel? (3,3,4)

Eleanor —, actress whose roles have included Augusta Colt in 2004 romcom Wimbledon

Extremely rare coin seen not long ago

Eye infection (4)

Elaborate — pastiches do it (anag) (13)

Every plot, by the way, will have one (8)

Edgar —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1877's Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Electronic message

Explorer returns and officer leaves

Every plot, by the way, will have one (8)

Either of two edible marine bivalve molluscs of Australia and New Zealand

Explosion is fun

Everything unknown to companion

Everyone in gallery

Editorial chief

Every plot, by the way, will have one (8)

Enormously large

English name of Roman comic dramatist Publius Terentius Afer whose works include Andria and Eunuchus

Easiest form I left out for kids

Endorsement (11)

Even Shylock didn't demand this extravagant payment (2,3,3,1,3)

Endlessly surprised by web (4)

Enjoyment of food

Elaborate or terribly neat

Essentially, newcomer tackles code of silence (6)

Earth caught by radio interference over the moon (8)

Examination necessitating a lot of bookwork (5)

Eat, we hear, for a laugh

Equipment used by climbers (3,5)

Examination necessitating a lot of bookwork (5)

Element of victory

Employer sure to get upset

Elizabeth’s wager

Enthuse to new flyer

Endless help one is given where saint was born

Exclude fellows who work for mine host (6)

Entrust another with the duties of French ambassador (8)

Evade or go round

Edward —, US painter whose works include 1846 oil Noah's Ark

Eighteenth letter in the Greek alphabet

English classical composer, d. 1934 (5)

Enemy runs away from front … (3)

Endless beauty in cojones — for those showing them? (7)

Ending in death (5)

Editor sadly ran amok

Eat — but not seriously, we hear

Ending in death (5)

Excessively proud

Exhausted and broke

Examine backward boy and gossip

Every other letter from dear friends went astray

Employment for Poles?

Expression of surprise about publication in town west of Belfast

Ending in death (5)

Expert in tracery

Equal with one couple

Enough to have beer with politician

Early washing machines (4-4)

Every seven days, leader apparently turned up submissively (6)

Engineer can request a book, needing to start afresh, it's said (4,2,6,3)

Extraterrestrial's son's declining wits (6)

Everybody in church retains a friendly relationship (8)

Every atlas, I agree, will include it (4)

Elm, for example (4)

Eurasian plant with daisy-like flower heads

Easy to get fellow to rhyme

Egyptian canal upsetting a Greek god

Event that fails badly (6)

Elbow say brownish, seen from underneath (5)

Explain what is foreign to us? (9)

Etiquette when eating

Exaggerated publicity

Experience or endure

Egg-shaped wind instrument also called a sweet potato

Elena —, 2008 Olympic singles tennis gold medallist

Emphasise tension

Excellent policeman

Expensive set broke record

Employer’s new ruse

Entrusted with oxidation

English grasped by kids completely, as they say (5)

Element of medal

Easily frightened

Election worker sails south with queen

Eels try wriggling briefly

Easily bent into shape (7)

Everlasting (7)

Exclusive story (5)

Erich Wolfgang —, Best Music, Original Score Oscar winner for The Adventures of Robin Hood

Eldest of the three sons of Noah in the Old Testament

Eye operation associated with neuralgia (5)

Expression of agreement (5)

Electrical interference

Extra expansive

Ensign gets on with small or large bottles

English dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 (6,6)

Experience financial hardship (4,3,5)

Eye operation associated with neuralgia (5)

Expression of agreement (5)

Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet

Eye operation associated with neuralgia (5)

Expression of agreement (5)

Encourage revolutionary queen

Extracted data about a detour

Enclosed kitchen fireplace (5)

Entertain a Greek goddess (5)

Eyesore constructed during last year (4)

Egypt's capital (5)

Ending, about to study church

Exclude bread rolls

Enigma Variations composer, d. 1934 (5)

Expected successor to position or estate (4)

Elves are beautiful in elegant stripy tops (7)

Edible snail (8)

Eccentric prison officer unknown

English poet who's liable to lash out? (7)

Entrances to new stage

Engraves points

Ex-pat changes first name to Charlie for some protection (6)

Endless slander I attributed to old girls and boys (6)

Exclude or omit

Explosive device

Executioner in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure

Excitable and unpredictable (8)

Endearingly pretty

European freshwater fish with a compressed dark greenish body

English dialect name for a green woodpecker

Element used in hardening steel; symbol B

Expert in tracery

Eliminate small misgiving, by the sound of it

Egyptian goddess is seen repeatedly

English name of Ein Heldenleben, the 1898 symphonic poem by Richard Strauss

Endures final on Sunday

Early settlement for my "Peter Pan" production

European language

Expel from a property

Edgar Allan —, US short-story writer who died in 1849

Elizabeth’s wager

Expensive-sounding animal

Everything that is singular for friendly nations

Examples of popular positions (9)

Editor turning stingy leads to our sort of attitude (9)

Easy task that keeps learner secure (6)

European republic; capital Tallinn

Everyone in gallery

Eagles drifting round North African country

End of life, an evolution (6)

Eland, for example (8)

Employed American journalist

Everything unknown to friend

Eccentric asking to hide

Extra soft at the front, like such bras? (6)

Engage in sport or cheat at it (4)

Either way it's essential to a helicopter (5)

Eurasian plant whose aromatic leaves are used as herbs for seasoning

Eastern Sovereign Base Area near Larnaca, part of a British Overseas Territory in Cyprus

Employ pundit, regardless of pressure (5)

Edit clue, first of four condemned as underhand (9)

Earth's level area included in test (9)

Evergreen tree of the Mediterranean with edible, shiny black fruits

Eccentric message

Exchange roles with no-hoper

Expression of amazement (5,2)

Expression of regret

Edvard —, Norwegian composer of the incidental music for Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

Emilie —, 2007 Mexican Open singles tennis champion

Endow new Norse god

Even-tempered, calm (6)

Entreaty some people acknowledged

English city (that may be local?) (5)

European country with four official languages (11)

Exhausted, having ridden a storm (7)

Element in technical speech Jack ignored

Excessively polite (7)

Equilibrium (7)

Explosive missile part

Excited by the change in the air

Exhausted American editor gets out of bed

Enclosure holding a male or female bird

Extremely wicked (7)

Entire — total (4)

English politician on way to board at Heathrow? (7)

European waterway

Empty container placed inside another

Engineer may scorn radar, sonar, etc

Emit a steady light without flames (4)

Encourages recount — you might say 'pardon' (9)

Even a smidgen of evidence (4)

Elisabeth —, British sculptor whose works include 1969's Horse and Rider

Elongated freshwater air-breathing creature such as the South American — or West African —

Espy casks, tumbled in paintings

Exuberant friendliness

Empty, boastful talk

Eagle's nest? (5)

Echoing musical with two notes raised (9)

Entering eg Qatar, granddaughter went abroad (9)

English playmaker Jack heading for nightclub in drag (7)

Extinct primate (6)

Experienced person (3-5)

Examine intensely (or superficially!) (4)

European republic; capital Helsinki

Encourage around course

Eric prepared some food

Extremely smart band with guitar part

Equestrian clause

Elevate lieutentant after chopper turned up

Et cetera (3,2,2)

Early Mediaeval period in Western Europe (4,4)

Exclusive news story

Ecstasy among RC saints confused scriptwriter (9)

Elected with no change in Washington, pure and simple (8)

Establish residence in US city overlooking eastern tip of Florida (6)

Episode going wrong in end? It encapsulates Conservative (8)

Everlasting (7)

Elie —, Polish-born sculptor whose works include 1915's Man in the Open Air

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Exclude from pub

Excuse — excuse me! (6)

Elsinore's philosopher/statesman possibly becoming rasher? (6,5)

Exhaust Spooner's dim individual (8)

Exclusive party in extremity adopting new name (3,5)

Eyes, slang (7)

Edmund —, London-born poet who authored 1928 memoir Undertones of War

Eurasian bird such as the Grey-capped — or Yellow-breasted —

Employed American journalist

European country with a musical sound

Epitaph soon started to produce tears

Every single bit of knowledge a child has (4)

Elgar's looks? (6)

Eight furlongs (4)

Ernst —, German aircraft designer who died in 1958

Elizabeth’s wager

Endure to the final

Equipment for school governors after dark

Escape not allowed after holiday

Edible sour leafstalks (7)

Extinct member of the cattle tribe also called urus, the last specimen of which is believed to have died in Poland in 1627

Empty valise in French airport? That's too much!

Energy savings scheme

Epitaphs composed for the most fortunate

Edible crustacean

Equal with one couple

Eat too much, and drink up last of wine

Edible black marine bivalve (6)

Excites readers? (7)

Expression wears thin when spoken (6)

Extra, more than usual (10)

Elias —, 17th-century antiquary whose collection of artefacts and library was donated to Oxford University

Exciting game at the plant

Exhausted, no longer able to keep up?

English audacity, with opponents getting laundered cash (10)

Everybody involved in small railway reunion (5)

Egyptian god of music and pleasure

Eddy —, 1966 and 1969 European Championships 110m hurdles gold medallist

Eccentric message

Exchanging introductions, discover friendly energy supplier (4,4)

Express ignorance about Italian's title (6)

Eugene —, 19th-century author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris

Excuse for gift given to prisoner

European bears in trouble

Everybody in the show is superficial (7)

Eagle's nest (5)

Easy scoring chance

Equal with one couple

European waterway

English party to make a deep impression

E M Forster novel published posthumously in 1971

Embellish with alcohol?

Egyptian monarch

Extended jackpot

Eyelid swelling

Event with two main features

Each experience has it

Eastern lake is creepy

Extraterrestrial

European waterway

Earlier head of religious house

Endlessly tired horse ruined speculator

Edges of a roof

Entrusted with oxidation

Exhibit old attitude

Easy clues I'm pleased to provide

Eccentric, but excellent, casserole (8)

Everything you say is never wrong (8)

Elaborate hindquarters indeed (8)

Excessively fat or fleshy

Exhaust (resources)

Edible European mushroom with a bluish stalk

Enjoy archaeology

European capital

Emirates could be more hot and humid

Employing an amusing finale (5)

Endless commotion outside? Inside you once played (5)

English fashion, eg clean style (8)

European test report (5)

Eccentric aunt carrying type of bomb in both hands — it's normal (7)

Eye make-up (7)

Express in another language

Exactly the sort of thing I like! (3,2,3)

Express glee seeing officer caught up in boring duty (7)

Exuberance shown by senior ghosts? (4,7)

Edinburgh, for example (7)

Elderly student spoiling gigolos rotten (13)

Expression of postprandial satisfaction for Shakespearean character (5)

Exclusive news story (5)

Exhausted (3,2)

Emerge from an egg (5)

End of life (5)

Easily bent, supple (6)

Everything in gallery

Exclusive news story (5)

Exhausted (3,2)

Emerge from an egg (5)

End of life (5)

Easily bent, supple (6)

Elisabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas

Edward —, 19th-century English humorist noted for nonsense poems such as The Jumblies

European country

Eager to wail over the dead

Exclusive news story (5)

Exhausted (3,2)

Emerge from an egg (5)

End of life (5)

Easily bent, supple (6)

European volcano

Expert witness starts off with impudence

Engrave with acid (4)

European facing question — competent and calm (7)

Exaggerated or strong masculinity

English title of an 1859 opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Emperor of Japan from 1989

Examine short fastener

Enter and rob (6)

English county (abbr) (5)

Elisabeth —, actress who played Serena Southerlyn in US television series Law & Order

Enthuse at dance party

Equine colouring

Extra time to follow chaps who do yoga? (10)

Extremely coquettish kind of yellow jumper turned up where one goes at night (7,3)

Exam not fine for a learner (4)

Extra benefits (from a job) (5)

Extremely comfortable — advocate getting new investment (8)

Everyone in the group heading off — he wasn't free (5)

Expression in words

Edward —, Budapest-born physicist known as the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb

Edward —, author of 1962 stage play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Eastwood entertains English customer

E E —, England Test cricketer who took 6-58 against New Zealand at Birmingham in 1990

Evidence of digging in the garden? (8)

Everlasting (7)

Eskimo boat (5)

Endearingly pretty

Extinct language of ancient southern Italy

Extreme body parts (4)

Everlasting (7)

Eskimo boat (5)

Excessive pride, arrogance (6)

Everlasting (7)

Eskimo boat (5)

Exclusive news story

Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros

Erect annual grass grown for its edible seed

Echo a lot at school

Extremely shyly signifies approval in church meetings (6)

End on the back of chair, awkwardly seated in ceremony (9)

Extension to a building (6)

Enclose, confine (3,2)

Examination of accounts

Encountered the police in London

Esoteric beggar can eat sandwiches

Emotionally affected (5)

Exercise to become hard when tender at one time (7)

English public school's opening grounds (7)

Essentially as low as can be, apparently (2,6)

Elm, for example (4)

Exorbitantly priced

Editor’s note

Emotional display that's part of an act?

Established novelist links up on air (8)

Edible seed (6)

Elaborate parade

Equipment I would find unyielding

Energy savings scheme

European network backing sad song

Expelled from university, dons went off

Even Dad's starting to recede (3)

Edge or frontier (6)

Extinct bird (4)

Empty, abandoned

Eamon —, president of the Republic of Ireland from 1959-73

Entering a sort of fruit

Endorsement printed on a book cover (5)

Egocentrism (4-8)

Exploit source of inspiration when lives lost (6)

Enters the exam, exhausted, to get prize (6)

Ennui that lands Communist in sudden development (7)

Equip with weapons (3)

End of a prayer

Enclosures for swans

Exercises around meadow or fold

Extract container for ammunition

Edible shellfish, source of mother-of-pearl (7)

Evergreen shrub with glossy fragrant leaves (6)

Extremely sharp bend (7)

Ennui that lands Communist in sudden development (7)

Equip with weapons (3)

Expert, authority (6)

Ennui that lands Communist in sudden development (7)

Equip with weapons (3)

Extra playing card

Extremely tough line for cast

Esteem for scrambling up tree

Exceedingly (5)

Eye membrane (4)

Expel from a property

Enchantress in Greek mythology who detained Odysseus on her island

Expert in tracery

Embellish (speech or writing) with different material — learn dirt (anag) (9)

Emerge from an egg (5)

Elfin creatures (7)

Employed American journalist

Emphasise tension

European capital

Encountered (3)

Enjoy new match

Easily frightened

Equipment, including racket, for travelling

European river crossed by nerdy enthusiast

Extremely picky (13)

Explorer's hut revealed a secret (10)

Evaluation of solar involvement

Engineer examined such a dramatic device (4,2,7)

Exhibition of cowboy skills (5)

Elder statesman from Germany with zero cash abroad (5)

Extraordinary (10)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Elegant and well-seasoned

Elegy writer in odd parts of Germany

Easy host or confused prophet

Exhorted earnestly (5)

Extra-marital affair (5)

Extraordinary (10)

Engage in pugilism (3)

English horse racecourse that hosts the Derby

Exclude from pub

Exhausts betting and finishes

Eton varies in quality

European capital

Eccentric expert with marijuana

Everyone comes round to reef

Extraordinary (10)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Edmund —, English tragic actor who played Shylock at Drury Lane in 1814

Extremely bird-like wings to boot

Eagerly desirous (4)

Eager to cause carnage, shortly bid to relax (12)

English archdeacon of a smooth nature (4)

Extinguish a current measure in drink (5,3)

Elaborately decorated (6)

Extensive unbroken view

Enjoying continued success

Edgar —, president of Zambia elected in 2015

Eugene —, actor who played Mitch Cohen in 2003 film comedy A Mighty Wind

Eels move differently

Encountered the police in London

English county (9)

Ending in death (5)

Eurasian plant whose aromatic leaves are used as herbs for seasoning

Elisabeth —, British sculptor whose works include 1969's Horse and Rider

Exchange for money

Easily frightened

Enduring without complaint (4-9)

Entertained (6)

Edward promises to be dull

Energy savings scheme

Element of victory?

Extend a period of incarceration

Everyone left everywhere

Essential employee in the security business? (3,6)

English royal house that ruled from 1485 to 1603

Employer’s new ruse

Excessively small amount constrains old male

Excessively fastidious (9)

Edit makes cardinal turn? (6)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Eyelid inflammation

Eschewing all booze (8)

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Edith —, French singer known as the Little Sparrow

European —, small marine food fish also called a brisling

Everything in gallery

Eyelid inflammation (4)

Edward —, British admiral nicknamed Old Grog who died in 1757

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel; subject of a 1933 biography by Virginia Woolf

Exclude from pub

Entertain Erato, for example

Europe possibly missing old currency

European country since 1993 (8)

English play around island (4)

Emerge from an egg

Energy to leave self-regard

Eight-piece ensemble

Either of the Bear constellations (Major or Minor) (4)

Excuse expert fabricated ahead of time (7)

Eg you exploded about line in speech containing nothing bad? (6)

Exchange first two pieces in game as gambit (6)

Except broken vase

Everything unknown to friend

Enliven a friend from Ulster?

Excuse criminal getting cheated (7)

Eastern heavyweight goes to school (4)

Emphasised I had got up before being made unhappy (10)

Eugene —, 1904-20 Socialist Party of America candidate for US president

Embodiment of perfection (5)

Early form of rock music! (6,4)

Eat well, quickly getting energy

Extent of anger varies

European country

Embrace old French writer

Expensive honey

Enthusiasm got us in trouble

Editing letters that may be set on fire

English-American Hollywood star, born Alexander Archibald Leach, d.1986 (4,5)

Electronic pioneer keeping in farmyard sounds (6)

Experts over piece of meat bringing in one to make ham (10)

Emphasise it's a cause of tension (6)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Exert personal influence

Edward —, composer of 1900 oratorio The Dream of Gerontius

Excessively fond (7)

English south coast county (6)

Established way of behaving (6)

Emphasise it's a cause of tension (6)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Encourage revolutionary queen

Edict possibly mentioned

Every so often (4,2,1,5)

Emphasise it's a cause of tension (6)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Ed —, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007-10

Enforce one medium position

Eccentric caught with line

Extremely unpleasant (8)

Educational institute (7)

Evil return after 20 would make game (3)

Emphasise tension

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Eating quickly and absconding

Equip a Baltic port

Edgar Rice ___ , creator of Tarzan (9)

Eager to be camping? (6)

Edible woodland fungus also called porcino with a rich nutty flavour

Exclude from pub

Equipped for battle

Enlisted — sort of writing? (6,2)

Employ information technology in low-key, on-screen assistance (8)

Edges of a roof (5)

Edge of a body of water

Erik —, prime minister of Denmark from 1950-53

Eleanor —, actress who played Augusta Colt in 2004 romcom Wimbledon

Engineers get sloppy and take it easy

Extinct creature

Either way it is unacceptable

Exciting piece from Bremen (thus in German) (9)

Eat meat having dropped article inside loin and leg (4,5)

English poet, sensation (7)

Even if not drawn by an artist it's worth money (6)

Establish (3,2)

Enrico —, Italian nuclear physicist who headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction

Extraterrestrial

Essentially deem ancient times a misery! (6)

Evict a sailor and look the other way (4,5)

European country (5)

European deciduous tree with winged fruits

Endure to final

Employer’s new ruse

Evict a sailor and look the other way (4,5)

European country (5)

Either of the two large flat triangular bones also called a shoulder blade

Elegance of schoolchildren

Expert, nowadays, at pet management

European mountains

Expert in garden centre went quickly

Extra teddy bears highly regarded

Epic English poem — salaried post (anag) (8,4)

Energetic person (6)

Evict a sailor and look the other way (4,5)

European country (5)

End or conclusion

Evil dame reformed in the middle ages

Examine outskirts of city, one looking quite attractive (3,5)

Eastern salts? (7)

Encountered (3)

Estimated TV audience size

European finch with a brown streaked plumage

Everyone goes around company house for drink

Enjoy dressing for dinner?

Entertaining one entertaining one in lift

Every single one of the peaches

Established diary has entry for November evening, Tory leader admitted (4-8)

Eyes other blokes, discontentedly (4)

European freshwater fish with olive-green skin and orange-red eyes

Emilie —, 2012 Olympic slalom K-1 gold medallist

Enthusiast from Brazil, say

Equal with one couple

Elastic hair fastener (9)

Erroneously pick up what someone's saying (7)

Emperor, you heard, in 15 (7)

Electronic message

Everything unknown to companion

Even money, in truth (6)

End of life (5)

Eurasian plant of the mint genus that yields an aromatic oil used in medicine

European plant whose arrow-shaped leaves are used in salads

Enid’s order is derogatory

Entrusted with oxidation

Everyone in this novel is above average height

Elasticated activity from a great height (6,7)

Excessive exploitation very nearly blocks river (7)

European sophistication (6)

Equipment initially kicked into touch

Edgar, when upset, was very angry

Enthusiastic for knee operation

Encourage hen’s produce

European laser beams? Not entirely!

Excess of sales over costs (6,6)

Engine-less light aircraft (6)

Experience insufficient energy?

Epistle from landlord?

Every other change neatly arranged (11)

Engineer questions exchanging money for new false reports (9)

Exploratory spacecraft

Earth’s satellite

Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet

Executive director initially stops current disturbances

Entry made by Walter shortly appearing in a social gathering (10)

Exceptional performance, kind rendered in Shakespearean role (6,2,7)

England cricketer batting — good, getting established (7)

European river (6)

Employees, terribly fast and furious initially

Examine small container

Equipage for eviction? (4-3)

Echoing tones ran out (8)

Excellent revolutionary

Element of victory?

Equals in nobility (5)

Emmanuel —, French composer of 1870 opera bouffe L'Etoile

Enjoyed in the same way as start of dinner

Engage as a participant (7)

English old gold coin one has for giving a lesson (9)

Even — out of tune (4)

Easily assembled dwelling (6)

European — post (4)

Extreme beliefs upset moralist — nothing's left between us (9)

European capital

Eat some sardines

Extra time in bed in the morning (3-2)

é: what's over this letter — urgent (5)

Extraterrestrial

Extend a period of validity (5)

Eyelid swelling

Everything unknown to companion

Ethnic group in Equatorial Africa (7)

Extends merger of tech giants (9)

Explains something the printer set all wrong (10)

Ewen —, rugby union prop; 1990 Australia Test debutant against France

Edith —, author of The Railway Children

Eurasian plant with bright yellow flowers whose seeds yield a useful oil

Elisabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas

Extension to a building (6)

Element with its own copy?

Ever-changing swerve

Expensive-sounding animal

Exclude from pub

Elvis represented in biographies

Enforcer-in-chief's right — extremist spilling his guts (8)

Extensive landed property — needs me (anag) (7)

Examine reverse of Turner? Yes, surprisingly (7)

Extending far down (4)

Edible snail (8)

Expose to ridicule (7)

Extinct marine arthropod abundant in Palaeozoic times

Elizabeth’s wager

Eric Clapton's rock band, formed 1966 (5)

Erasing mildly abusive word about a Conservative (8)

Entry is made erroneously for this kind of deposit (11)

Expel from a country

Enamelled or lacquered metal ware popular in the 18th century

Ethan —, US actor; author of novels Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State

Element of an orchestra

English county providing cereal with everything

Evidence on oath for removal from office (10)

Egged agent to commit himself to 9? (3,7)

Eastern tiered towers

European language

Edible marine gastropod mollusc also called a sea-ear

Emilie —, 2007 Mexican Open singles tennis champion

Easily frightened

eg Gothic novel not following Frankenstein's lead (4)

Evidence on oath for removal from office (10)

Egged agent to commit himself to 9? (3,7)

Energy, enthusiasm

Exclusive news story

Elijah —, actor who played the title role in 1994 comedy-drama film North

Empty, that’s obvious

Encountered a large copper, say

Extremely awkward, failing to get tips

Exemplary poser

Evidence on oath for removal from office (10)

Egged agent to commit himself to 9? (3,7)

Expert marksman

Extremely rare binder for log

Enticement, lure (4)

Eurasian caribou (8)

Electrically charged particle (3)

Easily offended (13)

English proceed initially to Split for self-inflating experience (3,4)

Engagement ring? (12)

Established practice (5)

Enlist loner, somehow

Entrusted with oxidation

Eat like a rodent (4)

Eat like a bird (4)

European writer grasps Latin (4)

Eight-sided figure (7)

Elsa —, Italian fashion designer who died in 1973

Elephant in stories for children by Jean de Brunhoff

Eurasian bird also called a corncrake

Extended short story (7)

Eagerly Len rummaged about in the locker (6)

Either of a pair of protective leather holders attached to a horse's saddle for a rider's feet

Expression used for part of school year

Essential spirit finally found in small bottle

Enlightenment — of dietician (anag) (11)

Energy of mob riot (4)

Educates the clay-worker to be an expert on railway stock (12)

Ethnic disturbances that could upset the sport of kings? (4,5)

Eldest of the three sons of Noah in the Old Testament

Enchantress in Greek mythology who detained Odysseus on her island

Enterprise, perhaps, providing leading actors with fruit

Equip for offence (5)

Excessively sentimental (4)

End of a prayer (4)

Enterprise shows hazard

Emergency workers

Elfriede —, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

Edgar —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1877's Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Eldest son of Ham according to the Bible

Equip for offence (5)

Excessively sentimental (4)

End of a prayer (4)

Earthenware beer mug

Embellished or terribly neat

Eccentric not even going to dance

Equip for offence (5)

Excessively sentimental (4)

End of a prayer (4)

Engage in games

European country

Extra snake almost died

Economise? It's no good!

Essentially alters fake ivories, smuggling in article (9)

European monarch twice hosts one stranger (6)

Encourage another to breathe? (7)

Engage in espionage (3)

Earls running from focused beam

Exactly in the direction of landlady

Everything in gallery

Extremely desirable drug store

European ordered vital article

Expert in middle of Surrey is no crawler

European recalled study about Czech, say, enduring oppression? (8)

Embarrassed North American sadly overturned portable stove (10)

Engagement ring from one who will care, naturally! (5)

Examine a soft-hearted insect (7)

Eight people who work and play together (5)

Emerge from an egg (5)

Empty or boastful talk

Emily —, Canadian painter whose works include 1934's Woods and Blue Sky

Edmund —, English tragic actor who played Shylock at Drury Lane in 1814

Enemy has iron ring hidden

Examination of Roman numerals interrupting dinner?

Exclamation or swear word

Edward —, author of 1962 stage play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Expressing emotions beautifully (7)

Expert to study din round second old city (11)

Eastern money brings expression of disgust over time (4)

Exercise you must do to get higher with lift (5,2)

Erect foundations to accommodate old actors' entrance (5,4)

Emma —, author of the novels Frog Music, Room and Hood

Extravagant lord with a pig? That's novel

Excellent name for woman? Right!

Elegant sort of shop

Excessive quantity (7)

Explosion or eruption

Elisha Graves —, American inventor of an elevator who died in 1861

Exclude from pub

Elizabeth’s wager

Examine quiet dress

European resident in Sudan exposed

Extra playing card

European freshwater fish also called a pope

Extol quiet lift

Ealing turned out to be cheerful

Either side of window that is most extensive

Egg-laying mammal can hide nuts

Edge past river; this one? (5)

Extremely successful game is played

Examine what poetry should do?

Eastern governor elected not for the first time (5)

Expert, proficient

Encountered the police in London

Everyone was in debt, it is conceded

Ecstasy's the reason for showing a lot of feeling

Everybody included in railway reunion (5)

Eyeball membrane (6)

Event, occurrence

Eric —, Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot

Employed American journalist

Element of victory?

Entrance has new supporter

Endlessly examine poker

Extremes of emotion in tedious passage, put on (8)

Estimate the donkeys have gone south (6)

Extinguished prerogative completely (8)

Extreme tiredness

Eurasian maple tree with yellow flowers and two-winged fruits

Even its pursuers want to be (8)

Eager to learn or know

Established custom or practice

Expression of regret

Edmund —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Mister 880

Elder has finished with yearning

Exaggerate extra tip-off fact

Edward has three somehow restrained

Emphatic denial of second person in northern river

Edible mollusc from the east in Italian soup

Enzo ___ , Italian car designer and manufacturer, d. 1988 (7)

Express reluctance (5)

Even its pursuers want to be (8)

Ethel —, 1951 Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award winner for Call Me Madam

Expand women’s group study

Economy measure required by executives?

Entertained in the morning, then exploited

Even its pursuers want to be (8)

Edible clam native to the Atlantic coast of North America

Evict wild animal

Exceptional person — extremely unlikely (3,2,1,7)

Explosive point for Sicily (4)

Element drunk? That man's round the bend (7)

Excitement of Euripides's last epic novel (5)

Economy too hot results in Financial Times tips (6)

Endorse what those on high table do after dinner? (7)

Engineer pleased about a new feature in a resort? (9)

Elm, for example (4)

Elias —, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature

Electronic digital computer developed by John Mauchly and J P Eckert during World War II

Europeans said to have stoops

Evidence of tiger promotion? (7)

Effort made by an abstainer to empty - almost (7)

Ex-Spanish monetary unit (6)

Encourage farm produce

European capital

Engineers wooden fret (6)

Endlessly played up in small island (4)

Essex resort on the Thames estuary (8-2-3)

Exe and Wye, say (but not Zed) (6)

Express an opinion (5)

Equipment I would find unyielding

Expressions of grief upset boss

Extension at right angles to the end of a building (3)

Energy at the back in a certain direction

Extremely brittle part of wheel, tailor-made

Early — novel (8)

Eastern country spies are experts in assessing the land (6,6)

Even lads somehow get dominated

Emergency worker

Equine creature

Eastern country spies are experts in assessing the land (6,6)

Ed —, author of the novels Cop Hater and The Mugger

Eero —, Finland-born architect and designer whose works include the Tulip chair

Embellished or terribly neat

English flower placed in empty nest

Easing of strained relations (7)

Ebb, retreat (6)

Eastern country spies are experts in assessing the land (6,6)

Eccentric ace gets trophy

Early form of bicycle (10)

English railways directed up past it (6)

Exciting event (6)

Extending throughout a nation

Expert bearing weight right away

Enthusiasm for glum sitcom that's shown regularly

End of the line (8)

Excessive (4,3,3)

Employing some delicious ingredients for a cake (5)

Excellent, if not fast, way to do better (5)

Exclusive news story

Emile —, 19th-century author of Dictionnaire de la langue francaise

Euros —, Welsh television director whose credits include Doctor Who and Last Tango in Halifax

European capital

Excuse, forgive (6)

Eight-sided figure

Educational establishment

Element that none used

Encourage doctor to wipe out source of salmonella (4,2)

Events made less commercial with French and Saunders' backing (5)

Equipment ensuring successful hospital treatment? (6)

Elevate some of those given no blessing (7)

Entrusted with oxidation

Exaggerated about jumpy cadet

European republic

El Cid at ruined fortress

Eastern state involved in machinations (5)

Exerted control, we hear, as the ruler did (7)

Excursion paths for unusual aircraft (9)

Enter into an arrangement for custody (9)

Emile —, French author of the novels Germinal and Therese Raquin

Employer’s new ruse

Embarrassed graduated erected a garden building

Ecologically OK on the golf course?

Especially (2,10)

Eastern state involved in machinations (5)

Exerted control, we hear, as the ruler did (7)

Excursion paths for unusual aircraft (9)

Enter into an arrangement for custody (9)

Eldest son of Jacob in the Old Testament

Eat well, but don’t eat with energy

Escape an insect, say

Electronic message

European resident in Canada neglected

Excellent stuff on pizza?

Eastern state involved in machinations (5)

Exerted control, we hear, as the ruler did (7)

Excursion paths for unusual aircraft (9)

Enter into an arrangement for custody (9)

European embarrassed after display gets washed (8)

Energetic person flipping lots during party (6)

Extinct language spoken in ancient Etruria

Endless Irish flower

Extra cost keeping car in drive outside entrance to home (9)

Economist hits out over money (5)

Even Alsatians rested (4)

Exercise that may well be boring in Stockholm! (7,5)

Ending in death (5)

Extinct language of ancient southern Italy

Enough to have beer with politician

Epic story about a gas

Explosive found on beach

Electricity supply (5)

Earth’s satellite

Element of victory

Experts on English writing

Electrically charged particle (3)

Egyptian goddess, sister (and wife) of Osiris (4)

Explosively unstable (8)

Exaggeratedly manly

Entire repast or just some bread

Enid’s wrong to be nasty

Endure, using salt

Exclude dark table

Employees held in the utmost affection

Early work might involve meeting with fellow in steak bar, possibly (5,9)

Eco warrior originally arrested under nuclear dump (6,3)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Engage in espionage (3)

Error in party politics

Ethnicity contest

Either of two large chest muscles (8)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Engage in espionage (3)

Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros

Extraterrestrial

Electric current measuring instument (7)

Entertainment, floor show (7)

Engage in pugilism (3)

Engage in espionage (3)

Entertainment that's a nice change to mother (6)

Excessively fat

Edouard —, French viola player; composer of opera Le roi d'Ys

Electrical unit

Expressions of discontent, say, in manuscript

Exceptional acceleration in luxury car with electric starter (4)

Exclusive circle of people with a common purpose (6)

Eccentric uncle working to find subatomic particle (7)

Exclude or omit

Embellished or terribly neat

Excellent game was played

Element of an orchestra

Edible mollusc with a ribbed fan-shaped shell (7)

Earl passed over after working with a single duke? (3-6)

Encourage chopper making extension for hatching birds (3,5)

Eyelid swelling

Everything's bound to go round — that's agreed

Early name of the Ethiopian Empire (9)

Entertainment as pretties become naughty … (10)

Exchange or swap

Eucalyptus timber tree of Western Australia

European waterway

Early version of a popular card came — a big reduction (anag) (7,6)

European plant of the arum family also called lords and ladies

European volcano

Even number that's odd for the GI

Execute by strangulation (8)

Extremely evil (10)

Endlessly slow, turning up? Blast! (4)

Equal with one couple

English navigator recalled wonderful feature of fish (6)

Electronic message (1-4)

Element of victory?

Except breaking vase

Emotion that is dangerous? Not entirely

European should shine? (6)

Excursion's destination is ancient city (4)

Engine enables doctor to go to rubbish tip (5)

Explosion is fun

Examination of a Buddhist at regular intervals

Edible snail (8)

Exclamation of contempt (3-3)

Emotionally exhausted in triumph or defeat (8)

English easy about rubbish (5)

European tax-based changes more than sufficient to encourage antisocial behaviour (3,1,3,7)

Embellished by dodgy press dude (7,2)

Explains about constant contributors to immune response (1-5)

Elm, for example (4)

Excitable person

Eleanor —, actress who played Augusta Colt in 2004 romcom Wimbledon

Elegant, fast lute composition

Endless game in which pig may be bought?

Eve's tempter, when reformed, repents

Extremely old (7)

Elm, for example (4)

Element used in hardening steel; symbol B

Equestrian clause

European actor in a play

Effortlessness (4)

Edible part of a nut (6)

Elm, for example (4)

Edith —, Best Costume Design Oscar-winner for The Sting

Elisabeth —, British sculptor whose works include 1969's Horse and Rider

Eric prepared some food

Exercise is able to provide food

Explain why I am still stuck on platform? I must leave (9)

East European composer cited points to be considered? (9)

Eco-friendly energy for every plant

Elizabeth’s wager

Evergreen creeper

Embarrrassed about poetry — or vice versa

Ends let out and pressed close (7)

Emerge from an egg

Expression of woe

Eastern doctor will hurry for a hug! (7)

Entreaties gratify, we hear (5)

Enclosure with bars

Elk has right to be glum

Equestrian clause

Editor’s note

Extra amount that restores a former level (3-2)

Ever fashionable daughter tried to lose weight (8)

Epic account of parliament newspaper brought up (5)

Eventually as a cross-country competitor? (2,3,4,3)

Ellery —, dual-code rugby player; Man of Steel award winner in 1985, 1987 and 1989

Encountered the police in London

Earn – a reward?

Eccentric was old assassin in Dallas

Everything at Longchamp, say (4)

Exploit a piece of legal writing (4)

Easy to lift (5)

Edges of a roof

Enjoy its numbers

Escape slowly after Poles have a nap

Extra information added at the end (8)

Everything at Longchamp, say (4)

Exploit a piece of legal writing (4)

Easy to lift (5)

Exhibit or display

Emanuel —, Swedish scientist, mystic and theologian who died in 1772

Elizabeth’s wager

Element of victory?

Endless woe for Scrooge?

Entrance, captivate (7)

Everything at Longchamp, say (4)

Exploit a piece of legal writing (4)

Easy to lift (5)

Evidence of a wound

End of log turned over in a small wood

Error makes it incorrect

Escort for the coffin at a military funeral (5,2,6)

Earth's surface? (7)

Excellent recommendation for better cover (3-3)

Exact account by a churchman (8)

Eric has upset the accountant (7)

Ending in death (5)

Elizabeth’s wager

Eager, astir (4)

Excess flesh (3)

Emotional shock (6)

Excessive, unwarranted

Essential or practical details

Explosive devices

Ezra —, US poet who died in Venice, Italy, in 1972

Eggs initially thrown in mass meeting? It's true!

Entry of one political party that's mean (6)

Exhausted, like a parachutist about to jump (5,2,4)

Extends terms of imprisonment (9)

Extremely ragged (6)

Eurasian wild rose also called sweet briar with rosy pink and white flowers

Edmund —, English poet who authored 1907 memoir Father and Son

English name of the river upon which Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales stands

E in the Greek alphabet (7)

Expecting Jo to leave me too! (2,3,4)

Earnings drained after tax returns in future? (5)

Eastern racecourse, not a current course (6)

Egg production centre (4)

Enough, sufficient

Expresses willingness to remove the top from the money-boxes (6)

Eyeball membrane (6)

End debit arrangement, owing

English horse racecourse that hosts the Derby