Clues Starting With p Pay a call on Parts of an act Paleozoic __ Pulitzer author Jennifer Pricey watch Pooch's plaything Part of DOE: Abbr. Producer of peaceful branches? (5,4) Prominent feature of chief country (8) Parasite to run away from, by the sound of it (4) Producing a rent from Tangier (7) Photo book (5) Practical joke (3-4) Pamper (6) Pilfer (5) Planet (6) Production (6) Puts up (6) Permitted by law Posh cake Provocation Plural of foot Physical effort Possibly airs a dress Policeman, not soft, retrained for pit Penny leaving store to tour old London area Proust reinterpreted produces mental dullness Popular monarch stopping street advertising Pieces for one not completely secure Portuguese Atlantic island group (6) Percussion instrument — a ringlet (anag) (8) Peas (anag) (4) People carrier's small opening to reverse in a narrow street (9) Period of which the present day is near the end (8) Pub hosts fellow with ukulele, initially as a joke (2,3) Policy of separate racial development (9) Pay a call on Parts of an act Paleozoic __ Pulitzer author Jennifer Pricey watch Pooch's plaything Part of DOE: Abbr. Permit (3) Parrot type (5) Pant (4) Paradise (4) Prayer ending (4) Predicament Pulls with a rope People’s contest Part of community Phone to get sculpture Plunder for new tool Posh person? Plant part Plato, for example Pet ate in RSPCA compound Props up Marx reportedly propping up leaders of Soviet Union Property specialist — negate taste (anag) (6,5) Pretentious (informal) (9) Piece of cheese, say, and starter from wine list (5) Party with little quantity of beer is in order (9) People of an earlier age roughly drawn aside (10) Plead for a fairy tale? (7) Plenty (4) Player's first game (5) Pallid (3) Possesses (3) Parsley, for example (4) Portent (4) Prison chief Perhaps Part of speech Person in charge Pointed tooth of an elephant or walrus Pitiable soldier in cart accident Pledges to get shelf Plant Person owing money Plug more suitable as multi-socket device? Pedicurist's tip? (7) Protected against loss or damage (7) Pain in the neck (5) Poet's time? It appears twice daily on one (3,2,5) Players more willing to join society (6) Phone old boy missing race once (4) Possibly greets an N.C.O. (8) Plant type (10) Public speaker (6) Primate (3) Person skilled in the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu Posted nets off Prompt student included hint Post Peruse Piece of evidence Power Particulars Positive source of guidance for defendant in court? Person who takes the risk for a new business (12) Pleading for Quarex? (6) Possibly greets an N.C.O. (8) Plant type (10) Public speaker (6) Primate (3) Person’s private book Point to the Spanish swimmer Painful affliction Paradise Primate published article about diversity mainly Pout about refusal to record one's speech Pay attention to vehicle reversing in confined space Previous head of state oppressed by class Possibly greets an N.C.O. (8) Plant type (10) Public speaker (6) Primate (3) Pig sound Pledged to be married Percussion instrument Play on words Port in SW Iran on an island in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway Port in Puglia, SE Italy on the Adriatic coast Peru turned out unsullied Part of the Far East Prima donna Posh politician held by detective throws down Peer dates fools in Dire Straits? Production (6) Presentiment, apprehension (10) Pennant, decoration (8) Plant support Pay attention to Playground item Polite construction worker? (5,8) Place of safety (5) Pierce with horns (4) Placate primate with vegetables Previously used in poetry Perform in Clacton Pacify Plant parts Pour very shakily for dealer Potential sources of danger (6) Part of a Dutch name for a vehicle (3) Plant needs crazy amount of liquid (6,4) Plain foot movement needed with gym (6) Preacher no longer one who thumps (9) Prevented from producing any blooming result! (6,2,3,3) Puzzle-solving aids (5) Proportion (5) Policeman, informally (5) Permanent end of life Places have decoration Position of a bloom Portent Paradise Powerful Period of time Part of the eye Provide food Pointed coverage of an idiot? Person working with coffee beans? (7) Poise shown under strain (6) Pound tip of blade into unyielding weapon (7) Poor quality tree entered in test (6) Piercing cry that hurt head of little bird (7,3) Pulled off by the artist? (5) Posterior part of the body behind the thorax in arthropods Put off animal, with time Pale sort of request Place of birth Part of the play? Precious metal Pieces of wood Patrol old mills for a lot of money Pulls off tense clergyman Pulls Emily Ratajkowski, for starters, in emotional movie Perhaps Charles is cycling in Scottish town Pay for food and/or drink consumed by others (5) Perfect score in Strictly Come Dancing (3) Pensioners back to front in TV programme (4) Places where leopards are found? (5) Paradoxically those on a sit-in strike make it (5) Poem in good English (3) Prudence involved in most of the quarrel (6) Pulverised earth (6) Plant seen in spring or September (5) Private evening party (6) Poker stake (4) Planet (5) Pallid (5) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Practise Port on the Gulf of Bothnia; provisional capital of Finland in 1918 People from the Tiber, possibly Prise off part of church Percussion group Praise Plosive speech sound Principal worry involves alien backing resistance Perfumed powder found in metal crate Pray continue busy meeting, cutting in all over the place (2,2,5) Produce an eviction order? (4,3) Plunder (6) Port in England on the North Sea north-east of Billingham Plaiting translated into jargon Parting gesture (4) Promise to repair (or replace) faulty goods sold (8) Part of the above money, including 50% from bank (6) Parisian who, exceptionally, is somewhat shaky (7) Produce an eviction order? (4,3) Plunder (6) Paved garden area Past tense of write Persevere Person’s alternative personality Potter’s oven Port on the River Danube; capital of Upper Austria Press club Part of Far East Plural of is Professor Package Platform Playing card Pay attention to Place of business Peruvian perhaps fat, with a lot of weight to carry Picture Spur Harry after his dream move? Primitive human in games with two chess pieces Partner of gangster from America caught a slug? Profession of both Chekhov and Zhivago? (8) Persistently pursue (5) Produce an eviction order? (4,3) Plunder (6) Provide food Premiership rugby union club based in Coventry Particle Permeable to water Pole tossed in Scottish games (5) Politically progressive (7) Papal court (5) Part of the mind acting as a conscience (8) Part of the foot pointing East (3) Perceive sound (4) Pen fluid (3) Pit Pencil rubbers Pavement edge Praise that’s less exciting Perform in practice Pen part Party happening at the end of term? Peevishness observed about Poland People in COVID contract fast lane upset person who usually cashes in unscrupulously Place for a quick bite (5,3) Partridge or pheasant? (4,4) Permission to enter another country (4) Penny finished with favourite doll (6) Pitch declared first-class for part of match (6) Party inflicting damage around River Wye, initially (5-7) Pleasure craft (6) Perceive (5) Perhaps (5) Put to death (7) Prose composition (5) Planned beforehand Plain-spoken Player’s first game Popular pet Pears used as a weapon Portable radio transmitter/receiver (6-6) Proper countenance needed for one of the military commands (5,4) Presumably doesn't take the first bow! (5,6,6) Public transport vehicle (3) Pickling solution (5) Plump (5) Plunders (5) Public speaker Prize Perish Poker stake Princess of Tyre in classical mythology who founded Carthage Paul —, 1993 World Championships 800m gold medallist Produce notes on organ Pen new melody for deity Put off animal, with time Pale yellow Planet Pandemonium Pungent bulb Page edge (6) Pointed projection (5) Picture opportunity for children to have a day off school (5) Pro-centralising politicians — figures not in charge (8) Put a hole in part of the rifle, we hear (6) Previous feats surpassed - as the result of slipped discs? (6,7) Put an end to daily information? No, it's the very latest (4-5,4) Passionate enthusiasm (7) Produce eggs (3) Piles (5) Purchaser (5) Place (3) Pair of glasses Portly Palm tree native to Madagascar whose large leaves yield a fibre used for weaving Point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer Playing card with one spot Pre-nuptial do for a deer Phase pets out Problem children Physical reaction to something hair-raising (5,7) Prolific detective sounds like he could become gloomy (7) Possibly it makes error (7) Paints a flag? (7) Prepare to whistle for one's money (5) Pointed beard (6) Paradise (4) Pancreatic hormone (7) Perceive sound Puddle Pant Pacified Poet Peel Plunderer Permit Pal Pretentious person rejected excellent small plant Positive mistake inducing rage in man with a keen sense Paperwork (abbr) (5) Policy supported by Unionists ready for the future (5,2) Praise highly, though out of key (5) Possibly it makes error (7) Paints a flag? (7) Prepare to whistle for one's money (5) Pointed beard (6) Paradise (4) Pancreatic hormone (7) Partially open Prosecute a lady Previously used in poetry Part of the Near East Public school Prince of Wales perhaps wasted last four of teenage years Previous head of religious community Pretty entertaining start to high jump Point out it's a kind of kidney bean Power couple, losing money, flare up again Parody (7) Parliament, for instance (11) Plug — promote (4) Possibly it makes error (7) Paints a flag? (7) Prepare to whistle for one's money (5) Pointed beard (6) Paradise (4) Pancreatic hormone (7) Paris underground Pull along with difficulty Pool of money Pig sound Port in Honshu, Japan on the Shinano and Agano rivers Pressure on edge is proper Palm affected energy of another tree Previous day Pry Prudish Put up with jazz fan being an animal Piedmont province known for its sparkling wine (4) Phrygian 'Mother of all Gods' equating to the Greek Rhea or Demeter (6) Pointless advance warning? (3-3) Plant part (4) Proprietors (6) Possesses (3) Puerile Paper-folding art Phil —, 1976 Olympic 3m springboard gold medallist Possess Pointed tool Proof (8) Paper size (8) Pretend to be an impresario (3,2,2,3) Pope endlessly fiddling with his holy principles (10) Plain alleviation? (6) Plant (4) Petty sin or fault (10) Push (5) Public speaker (6) Perfume Proust off in a daze Phoned with number Play with mischievous child Purpose of camping? Press club Prickle Pipe for channelling smoke (4) Pragmatic sort (7) Putty-style sealant (6) Push learner initially and get a scoop (6) Pass a form of 21 (6) Pinafore (5) Pace (4) Partially clothed Preferred Purchase Perspire Pinafore Phil —, 1976 Olympic 3m springboard gold medallist Pupil acted strangely Possibly mined for material Parking at the edge is proper Party by gold entrance Precious metal Prudish Portal Pleased Procession Presenter Plump (6) Person fluent in many languages (8) Prisoner and guard meet head on (7) Price lists read out in court (6,6) Pixie (5) Policeman, informally (3) Prison room (4) Precious metal Perfect Public pool Peter —, US actor who played Willy Armitage in the television series Mission: Impossible Period of ten consecutive years Posterior Periods of time Poets Postage label Press charges at first - boy's very well defended? Period film's enthralling southern scenery Plant that causes skin irritation on contact (6) Pick-me-up (5) Part of a twining plant — red lint (anag) (7) Parts of a process (6) Passion brings renown about fifty (5) Pitch (3) Plunder (7) Plays for time (6) Peculiar (3) Pixie Principal Pier Luigi —, Italian architect who co-designed the UNESCO building in Paris Peter —, 17th-century painter whose works include Girl with a Parrot and Two Ladies of the Lake Family Period in England from 1811-20 during which the Prince of Wales acted as regent Performing a trade gets one to glow Position dates incorrectly Planet displaying heart Place Platform Peruse Pale yellow Primate Power supplied by energy source in sudden intake Petty restrictions placed around car accessory Perverse high lunar tide swamping loch Possible target for repairing telephone problem Pleasing to the Scots? (4) Painting with concerning mark inside mount (9) Punk band raises excitement at the start (9) Passion brings renown about fifty (5) Pitch (3) Plunder (7) Plays for time (6) Peculiar (3) Pavilion Patron Presiding officer in the House of Commons; a post currently held by Sir Lindsay Hoyle Picture one game differently Point a set out Professor Poem Propose Plural of is Pastry item Prerequisite for walking evident in non-verbal ancestors Poorly represent ignorant character Predicts sound of what cuckoo clock has PC still to admit superior officer's correct to go to press? Perfumed (7) Passion brings renown about fifty (5) Pitch (3) Plunder (7) Plays for time (6) Peculiar (3) Process of collecting together Paces Phillips —, 2009 World Championships triple jump gold medallist Plant part Poetic adverb meaning 'before long' (4) Popular arrangement of part of JS Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D (3,2,1,1-6) Proprietor; landlord (5) Prod; provoke (4) Pear tree destroyed by automatic gun (8) Punish (4,4) Pen part (3) Petty lie (3) Peruses writing (5) Pungent (5) Put on (3) Plant part (4) Particles of cut wood Pietro —, Italian Renaissance painter whose works include 1505's Combat of Love and Chastity Percussion instrument of Chinese origin that is struck with a felt mallet Point a set out Pastime Pull Primarily young mares king enters in African state event for them? Perhaps rook tax money hotel collected Put up more amenable champion for second game Pullover to protect classy keeper PM (9) Punch (informal) (4) Place in France? (4) Priest stopping religious festival before mice spread an outbreak of the plague? (8) Permission to depart (5) Profitable hostilities with Dutch essential to troubled reign (9) Pen used round old lines in artwork (7) Plant containing source of metallic element (9) Prepared for fighting sea that's rising … (6,2) Prime Paris renovation is developed underground (5,5) Poor time with those abandoned around harbour … (3,4,4) Plant supervisor reloads component (6) Provided with a drink when given medical attention (7) Period of recuperation I have is disturbed (7) Prophet (4) Personnel Party drink Peter —, actor who played Len Fairclough in Coronation Street from 1961-83 Phase pets out Pale sort of request Part of the Far East Papers, I see, love part of the US Poker-faced (7) Praise — honour (5) Place where contests and spectacles are held (5) Proust's character is weak, going in opposite directions (5) Presumably they don't take part in open arrest! (6,6) Plan to shoot about fifty (4) Pleasant (4) Painful (4) Pry (5) Purchase (3) Prophet Pseudonym of the illustrator Hablot Knight Browne Painting of them Urals Proverbially busy flyer Public school Prince and friend getting close Promise to marry criminal at brothel Possibly Rice has penned this? Prison visitor's not a Charlie (7) Party almost sounded scornful of the modern state? (10) Planner not so sensible, squashing resistance (7) Put the back row in a different order (9) Poetry without rules costs nothing (4,5) Punctuation mark (6) People living in one locality Permit Pakistan Test cricketer who took 7-55 against England in Dubai in 2012 Portion of vitamin I'm allowed is negligible Passage requiring a key? Playwright is keeping individual company Player in bother is backed by sponsors, primarily – they'll offer a fortune Poet who wrote The Scholar Gipsy (1853) (7,6) Pistol — 1966 Beatles album (8) Pinchpenny (7) Page-for-page Perfect society Procedure against a government official in the UK first recorded in 1376 that last occurred in 1806 Party animal Praising plan that’s ambitious Plant provides small border Park Proof impudence repelled you once President dismissing Republican to get refreshment (4) Person who gets paid cash advance (8) Pinchpenny (7) Pass by like time Plant of the daisy family; the national emblem of Scotland Pry Plural of is Parrots pushing third of seeds to front Part of the mouth (4) Pinchpenny (7) Playful skip or leap Period of darkness Plot is involving a gun Present during the recording Poles follow two articles to city Paradise Polly run over, which stops involvement Punctuation mark (5) Place, in a legal sense (5) Person who determines the final content of a text (6) People who live near it have little latitude (7) Point to a tree from the window (4) People will be annoyed to be given it (7) Petition from New Queer Street (7) Pound postage (5) Partly deaf, terribly behind (5) Perceive sound (4) Pick-me-up (5) Primary source (6) Polite, courteous (5) Prejudice (4) Planet (6) Prepared (5) Paris underground (5) Photographer’s device Poetic evocation to be green? Pandas possibly put marks around enclosure Period after court measure Provide with sustenance (7) Policemen in some unit reorganised (8) Put money in, having lost one's shirt? (6) Permit to build hotel's beyond reason (3,2,4) Plain dish has value every now and then (7) Put on show for every class (7) Private evening party (6) Plant (5) Private teacher Part left over Possibly arming at the border Possibly arming at the border Police force remains independent but close to judiciary Prisoner delighted to give permission for it? Pro bono clinic offers sandwiches on the turn Persistently annoyed (8) Palaver (4) Partially defrosting potato dish (5) Publishing company with marketing men supporting single out on the radio (7) Praise whenever I'm darning trousers in recession (6) Planet Place of residence Possibly bar a Qatari, say Pieces about English snacks Possibly bar a Qatari, say Pieces about English snacks Pottery expert consuming litres Perfectly fit and well (2,5,2,4) Policeman (informal) (5) Payment that is made for a colony (10) Part of the play, we hear, is not without spectators (4) Pluck - that's what is needed on icy roads (4) Pull with a rope (3) Price (4) Particle of matter (4) Plant that completes its life cycle in one year Port and former capital of Nigeria on the Bight of Benin Point a set out Piece from his laboratory Point a set out Piece from his laboratory Pro-PC idiot's not half arsy - protection needed for chair Power relations? Paving slab (4) Part of the large intestine (5) Providing a typical example (12) Pay attention to theme of this puzzle (4) Part of friendship that meant nothing to 7, 11, or 26 (4) Pure description of a double-blank domino (8) Part of a useful name for the forearm (4) Promise to donate a single weapon (4,4,4) Pamphlet (5) Perceive (5) Patterned openwork fabric (4) Plunders (5) Prises (6) Perch (5) Prairie wolf Plant of the genus Antirrhinum with spikes of showy two-lobed flowers Persian language (5) Put more plainly, tenor and soprano's parting was overdue (9) Praise diverse kingdom of old (6) Pure description of a double-blank domino (8) Part of a useful name for the forearm (4) Promise to donate a single weapon (4,4,4) Pamphlet (5) Perceive (5) Patterned openwork fabric (4) Plunders (5) Prises (6) Perch (5) Potatoes People deciding a court case Paul —, rugby union lock whose England Test debut was against Australia in 1988 Pass out, seeing snakes Pass out, seeing snakes Pure description of a double-blank domino (8) Part of a useful name for the forearm (4) Promise to donate a single weapon (4,4,4) Pamphlet (5) Perceive (5) Patterned openwork fabric (4) Plunders (5) Prises (6) Perch (5) Public shame Piece of music composed for three people Port in Germany at the confluence of the Rivers Rhine and Main Plant of temperate mountainous regions with blue, yellow, white or red trumpet-shaped flowers Pace rated incorrectly Pace rated incorrectly Plonk with seconds upset men and son in post-roast states? Pretender's garment? (5) Powerful businessman (5) Portion (5) Power (5) Puts one's feet up (5) Pleasantly cold Prepared Plant from whose dried leaves the drug digitalis is prepared Port in Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes Plant whose thick white pungent root is ground and combined with vinegar to make a sauce Period of time Pen part Patent legend in US returned for end of rugby match Parasites found in stream POW churned up Priest perhaps secure in St. James's area Part of face (that may be high or low) (4) Places where buyers meet sellers (7) Punctuation mark (5) Powder room makes sleepyhead somehow appear dishevelled (4,1,4) Pound discovered in a bath robe (5) Portsmouth & Co (5) Perhaps too bad a mark (10) Pin I have put in to join sides of raft (5) Peer at one spitting words in church? (5,6) Pay to get clock, say, put up (5) Public outburst (6) Pub game (5) Prickly plant (6) Postal system Private soldier Process of learning Policeman in his element Prophet to burn report Pale sort of request Pure form of land Pole Pub drink Pre-birth (9) Painting of couple by river in boat (7) Paper transformed by spies into fake review (12) Pea soup carried by hand to primitive human (6) Press (4) Pantihose (6) Plant of the rose family such as wood — or water — Part of the Far East Panic, finding line on neck Put off animal, with time Paean Put forward expert holding dud parts Precluded (6) Parts of the barracks, not messes though! (7,5) Point out, show (8) Phase (5) Plough (4) Pickling solution (5) Perspires (6) Perfect (5) Plane without an engine (6) Pallid (3) Paper size Period of enforced isolation Port in South Holland, Netherlands, noted for its gin distilleries Patrick —, actor who replaced William Hartnell in 1966 as the lead character of BBC TV series Doctor Who Panic that wakes you up Peak viewing period Pig-like Principal nut Plant not wanted by small daughter Pet for Dorset leader in Dorset resort Plane without an engine (6) Pound's poetry, one admitted, having a lot of charm, initially (9) Paper on strike cutting the supply (9) Pub grub like this shouldn't be too fattening (5) Preferably her lost rodent (3) Peal for the bride? No, her band (7,4) Peace, tranquillity (6) Pen fluid (3) Prior to (6) Paladin in attendance on Charlemagne who died in battle at Roncesvalles in 778 P L —, author of 1934 children's book Mary Poppins Pattern gets signed off Pam struggles in current Principal notice inserted in border in front of flower Poor diet Tom has skipped Prove superior (7) Pizza dough turnover with a savoury filling (7) Preferably her lost rodent (3) Peal for the bride? No, her band (7,4) Peace, tranquillity (6) Pen fluid (3) Prior to (6) Peter —, British crime writer whose Lemmy Caution novels include This Man is Dangerous Pears used as a weapon Primate seen in tapestry Previous day Permit Place of worship Pronoun Plunder Planet Poem People from Basra? Payment for travel and food Pace in American territory Paris-based jewellery and wristwatch manufacturer (7) Party — hit — try (all informal) (4) Preferably her lost rodent (3) Peal for the bride? No, her band (7,4) Peace, tranquillity (6) Pen fluid (3) Prior to (6) Period of twelve months Plenty Principal sea Pierce Pitcher Potential Principles Part of mouth that's hit by very angry person Play outside church with old Greek coin Pa set out, in a way, to leave port (3,2,3) Picture puzzle (5) Plunders (7) Presents (5) Person tuned in to a radio show Public sale Pacific island whose capital is Hagatna Paper folding Possess People using the roads from golf clubs Passes a law again (2-6) Persistent animal gets exercise daily, using leads (6) Piece of luggage, one for Sherlock? (4) Potter's implement (3) Party's upset by this food (6) Put a gloss on a European combination! (6,6) Photo book (5) Planet (5) Put on (3) Purchaser (5) Port in Scotland on the Firth of Tay Pale yellow cheese with holes named after its place of origin in Switzerland Plate shaped like bit of bloom Pleased Prison chamber Precarious (but sharply defined) boundary line! (5-4) Part-time ambassador, having to do housework, failed (3,3,4) Proposing eco-friendly links, to some extent? (7,5) Plant grew further behind ditch (6,4) Private trials, maybe (6-7) Provide new gear as compensation (7) Put a match to high explosive - moving with alacrity! (5) Parrot type (5) Pilot's compartment (7) Painful (4) Pacify Put off animal, with time Precious metal Paying passenger Pronoun Pelt Playing darts? Yes, in leisure time Painful condition due to reflection off white surface (4,9) Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with a large dorsal fin (4) Protective wear clashes (5) Plant producing underwear is backed by state (8) Prepare to fight graduate in US city, having lost head (8) Person of note from Grease turned up with Newton-John at last (4) Put away the chart and attend (4,2) Puts off one's retirement (5,2) Produce eggs (3) Planet (7) Puts up (6) Percussion instrument Port and capital of Amazonas, Brazil Pleased with field Put up with an animal Play for each class Part of the body, part that aches terribly Pearl producer (6) Parent's sister (6) Poke around (7) Pulls grass up (5) Put into bonds, on account of great interest? (7) Precipitation (4) Peel (4) Perceive sound (4) Position (4) Poker stake Parcel Pandemonium Principal area in NW Wales whose administrative headquarters are in Caernarfon Piece of armour covering the chest and back Pets turn out a pain Protest Planet Pole Programmes like this are possibly suitable for starters Partially decomposed organic material (5) Put into bonds, on account of great interest? (7) Precipitation (4) Peel (4) Perceive sound (4) Position (4) Portion Podium Paula —, Lisbon-born artist whose works include 1988's The Dance Pierces German minerals Part of the Near East Pines Piece of material Precipitous Post Pig enclosure Playful kids here made a loud noise Put into bonds, on account of great interest? (7) Precipitation (4) Peel (4) Perceive sound (4) Position (4) Part of a firearm Part of a cereal plant containing the seeds Pale sort of request Plant only found in beer Payment Phone feature increases values Party clobber Proposes another point of view (6,2,7) Possibly Reg thinks of a red card (4,2,6) Publication for children (5) Percussion instrument (4) Primate (3) Prejudice (4) Period of time (4) Pressure gets too much in case Perspire Perform connectedly Pass by Precious metal coating Place someone under a legal obligation (4,4) Periodic population nose count (6) Ploughed groove (6) Part of team at Euros but not getting paid (7) Premature attempt to acquire recipe for cheaper menu option (5,4) Particle has complicated route between two points (7) Press more air out (7) Plain net (5) Press fastener? (5,4) Parrot gives a Scotsman an awful start! (5) Popular pet (3) Perhaps (5) Protect (5) Person giving blood (5) Push lightly Pitch Place of great disorder Protein composite present in cereal grains, especially wheat Picture one prisoner Prohibit British article Parking behind river is extreme Prohibit Profound Provoking remark about Somerset town Part of iceberg visible in dump? Person causing trouble when drunk (10) Punishment for sin (7) Pack round a US resort (5) Pet jumps up to grab a stick (4) Process for making rock, a fatal day used up thinking (13) Playwright's agreed a firm rise (6) Punishing distances? (4) Please pass another way (6) Precipitous (5) Period of truce Precipitation Peculiarity of style Pass food or drink down the throat Public holiday in Australia and New Zealand on 25 April commemorating the Gallipoli landings Pudding Portion Pole Part of heater is known to be a hazard President meeting footballers or Australian outlaws Pound discovered in bathrobe Pessimistic (8) Pilfer (informal) (4) Posh tablet rejected in reading Little Women here? (8) Plan to get shot of rose beds (6) Player who's fancied fruit left item in ring? (4,5) Posts at university linked to entitlements (8) Pack in preparation for deal (7) Put in a quandary - could perhaps be... (7) Pressed (6) Pointed tool used for piercing wood or leather Public service union that joined with COHSE and NALGO in 1993 to form UNISON (inits) Performs part of Bible Petal-shaped dish Piece of meat that's shared Pub snack (6,7) Plastic container for household waste (3,3) Person seizing something (5) Parade of lovelies (6,7) Plant used for colour, as a Welshman would say (7) Pieces of meat, drink and cocktail during the weekend? (6) Prize loafer? The reverse! (11) Philip swallowed a catalogue - a stamp catalogue he needs (11) Paper handkerchief (6) Poplar tree (5) Perform surgery Poses a question Prickly plant Poem or prose work describing an idealized rural life Performing a trio around a lake Puzzles solved in games Plundered Politeness (8) Percussion instrument — pink colleges (anag) (12) Paint nudism au naturel, finally implicated in recurrent commotion (8) Piddling half-pint? (5,4) Primarily austere, mostly illiberal, quiet sect (5) Part of church any parishioners should examine initially Put to death in river? Charming! Prize loafer? The reverse! (11) Philip swallowed a catalogue - a stamp catalogue he needs (11) Paper handkerchief (6) Poplar tree (5) Privy to Paradise Portable tubular rocket-launcher used by infantrymen Plant related to the onion; a national emblem of Wales Panic that wakes you up Plank Professor Poem Painful afflictions Play sections Puss let out farm animals Pretty — spectacular (6) Prize loafer? The reverse! (11) Philip swallowed a catalogue - a stamp catalogue he needs (11) Paper handkerchief (6) Poplar tree (5) Photographer Place of safety Precious stone or jewel Priest upset band Parent may rise awkwardly Possess Poker boss Pay particular care to understand this (4,4) Poor Ted got a tin fish! (7) Part of a vogue to a certain extent (2,1,7) Piece of furniture - not a wardrobe (7) Play statistics (5) Possesses (3) Person’s private book Proof of purchase Paul —, 1969 European Championships 20km walk gold medallist Progressing well as an athlete Plaything among silk items Piece of material Police unit Possess Pitch Part of joint with number attached Pole, peaceful and musical Plant used in chutneys or relishes Pre-2001 name for Kolkata (8) Prophet almost died, drenched in water (5) Peter's excited to receive an honour at start of school year (9) Part of journey close to a railway is famous (9) Pet dragon repaired by one supposed to have child's interests at heart (9) Popular enthusiast playing piece that's childish (9) Petty quarrel isn't quite severe (4) Poet obviously never short with a chap (10) Plaything (3) Peter —, Scottish painter born in 1959 whose works include White Canoe and Orange Sunshine Part of the Near East People’s event Prompt student included hint Press club Pleased with small cup Piece of evidence Pestilent crop stripper (6) Period when hostilities, interrupting aid, end badly (9) Purchase some clever agencies (8) Pole included in one complaint (4) Pass by like time (6) Pushes gently (6) Put into a new order Pleased with contract Pressure on angry buccaneer Prohibitions include English food Primates Portal Paused Pulses Precipitous Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967 (4,9) Potential performer's try-out (8) Prickly seed case (4) Protection from sunlight certainly possessed in centre of Greece (8) Place keeping masks etc in pawn (6) Parsimony has got queen into trouble (8) Perfect coin (4) Playwright I harm (6) Pungent (5) Portly (5) Postpone (5) Peter Mark —, English lexicographer whose Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases was published in 1852 Philip —, author of the novels The Plot Against America and Portnoy's Complaint Plant with greenish-white flowers cultivated for its edible rounded bulb Pam struggled in the current Permission to go Pleasing not to lose all the time Potential danger (6) Positively charged subatomic particle (6) Poetry covering page in old books was extravagant (9) Peru and Iran unfortunately in run-down state (8) Possession of unopened tranquillisers and joint (9) Piano tune for possible performers of duet (4) Prepared to explode - or not to explode! (5) Plotters use it (5,5) Pilfers (7) Partake of food (3) Partially open Places of worship Pierce (with a horn) Pungent Present, for example, that may be wound up Place to rest one's bones (7) Piece of music available in bookshop, usually (4) Prepared to explode - or not to explode! (5) Plotters use it (5,5) Pilfers (7) Partake of food (3) Poisonous Puppet type Plant of S America cultivated for its red, fleshy, edible fruits Partner’s painting Phases pets out at school Pleased with simplicity Passenger ship Posterior Pinch fastener that's brought back Planes diverted somewhere in Italy Pirate, if at sea, has a drink before dinner Person suffering from adverse circumstances — 1961 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms (6) Place of retreat (6) Prepared to explode - or not to explode! (5) Plotters use it (5,5) Pilfers (7) Partake of food (3) Pantry Preliminary Peruse Portent Pastry item Possibly relocate a missing voter Persian king taking power from Mediterranean island Put up about one dozen signs Protection from decorating etc. (4,5) Papal court (5) Publication produced by husband and wife (5) Put the middle piece of the bulb in dumps to produce flowers (6) Prima donna (4) Picture house (6) Private evening party (6) Presses clothes Phillips —, 2009 World Championships triple jump gold medallist Puppet pig, companion of Perky, created by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor Pressure to get second plate Primate in tapestry People from overseas setting signor free? Puts in an appearance (5,2) Possibly used to produce book: Running With The Crowd (introduction missing) (8,5) Picked up a tissue with sign of a cold coming (6) Provide professor with somewhere comfortable to sit (8) Popular swimmer's holding course for end of race (6,4) Pass over retrograde art and poetry (8) Prayer ending (4) Package Performance direction in music, indicating flexibility of tempo Picture of one prisoner Pears used as a weapon Probabilities Partially open a container Protection for plants? That's old hat! Placed (5) Pledge — guarantee (6) Play in the street (4) Perhaps Harrovians and partners, entering drag race (11) Pimples (5) Pen fluid (3) Port in SW Scotland housing the Wallace Tower Palm tree of the Seychelles that produces a large fruit containing a two-lobed edible nut Press club Point thorn out Particular, parking on edge Pleased with relaxation Proper Paradise Prohibit Put up with (7) Pastoral verse (7) Proposition from those folk holding Scandinavian capital (7) Plant type (6) Precipitation (5) Punctuation mark (5) Pith helmet Pay to get comfortable Prickle Praise Parisian street (3) Pay up, but not in silence apparently (3) Past a green light? (3) Pick-me-up (5) Premature (5) Picture section on chart Part of speech Proportion in the grip of lethal force Parts of helmets made from thin scraps? Plant protection — woman's hat (6) Pay up, but not in silence apparently (3) Past a green light? (3) Pick-me-up (5) Premature (5) Poster Part of a house Providential Permission to go Previously used in poetry Pupil acted strangely Plural of is Poison Previous day Paused Proverb Peel Painting Somalian vagrant Penny drops – it concealed hidden dangers Put out (10) Pay up, but not in silence apparently (3) Past a green light? (3) Pick-me-up (5) Premature (5) Plunges headfirst into water Paul —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur Pessimistic book of the Old Testament traditionally ascribed to Solomon Part of the play? Place in Czechoslovakia Public school Painful Plait of hair Press; herd (5) Plant louse; garden pest (5) Pasta pockets (7) Photographic cameo superimposed on to another print (5) Pacific island festival (6) Possesses (3) Pitch (3) Play for time (5) Prolific, abundant (6) Prickly plants (5) Payment method for swimmer Prosecute for wrongful use Pastime Pull Pig pen with the French fashions Plain Jane the novelist almost gets note Position of sculptor's works lacking energy Projecting ridge (on a mountain or underwater) (5) Process apt to go wrong, ignoring ace candidates (9) Proceed from a wild manatee (7) Podium (4) Prisons (5) Pace (4) Picture within another Polite expression of gratitude Petty quarrel Pale sort of request Pole forced to walk Present in the recording Pierce Pelt Piece of fabric Part with land required for port Puzzle — Ian Rankin's inspector (5) President upset writer touring Delaware … (5) Pen extremely legible type (5) Put out of countenance? (7) Paradise (4) Place to stay on holiday Platform Precious stone Paradise Painful muscle contraction - runner's problem, primarily Pipemen having second thoughts about wood? President with alien instrument Part of record player in truck Powder from ground pods used as a chocolate substitute (5) Palaver (5-2) Puts instruments and dials back to zero (6) Past the stipulated time (7) Permission (5) Pair of seals when swimming? Group not round seal at sea (8) Perhaps coat of fellow concealing weapon (7) Plump, obese (3) Proof Play for time Plant whose pungent tasting root is eaten raw in salads Peru prepared to take English currency Praying mantis, for example, belonging to religious group Plead at home to make a start Performer's return after a gap (8) Playful old chef using lime tips in beer (7) Poet expressing pain after desire waned (10) Particle to be inserted in the morning (4) Paper boys? (5) Post off (5) Paris underground (5) Pencil rubber Progression Private teacher Province of SE Pakistan whose capital is Karachi Peninsula in Sonoma County, California, US, west of Santa Rosa Phase pets out Performance Peruse Person in country, not in city, starts outdoor meal Putting the squeeze on newspapers in Advent? Playing on computers or other electronic devices (6) Pressure applied to a US felon (4) Pop's broken tea service (5) Particle to be inserted in the morning (4) Paper boys? (5) Post off (5) Paris underground (5) Predicament Pay to get comfortable Plant ovule Peruse Prickly plants play a part in Channel Islands Pastoral (7) p.a. (6) Possibility of future success; view (8) Prospecting for oil is tedious (6) Pelvis (3) Prose composition (5) Prairie wolf (6) Precipitous Place of birth Play with attorney before midnight Parental scramble before birth Plain monks converted to colour Prophet and diminutive journalist grow furious Portable outdoor shelter (4) Part of cow I fed partner (4) Pulped fruit or veg (5) Picture puzzle (5) Perhaps (5) Plunder (6) Poorly Proverb Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 Part of the leg between the hip and the knee Pub right to take the Spanish vat Present during the recording Position of a bloomer Point to warmth of crop Press club Paradise Professional line receiving treatment Princess who was popular in the Canadian army Place to get medical treatment or advice (6) Plumed hat not quite right in formal dance (8) Puzzle from mischievous child given tremendous backing (6) Pot roughly round, roughly litre content (8) Presumably this would leave geologists cold (3,3) Pelmet ruined in church (6) Partly bear a cheerless affliction (7) Patterned openwork fabric (4) Pig pen (3) Portent (4) Plant with three-lobed leaves Prize Polite name for a woman Pirate Port in Seine-Maritime, France, with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex Pastor —, Venezuelan F1 driver; winner of the 2012 Spanish GP Procedure involves returning – how crass! Proportion in operation Poems about current fashion company Pastries in Impressionist art school Piece of chewing tobacco (4) Passage from a longer piece (7) Poor urban neighbourhood (6) Princely companion of Shakespeare's Falstaff (3) Pass on information about a nobleman (7) Prove equal to the requirement of the would-be striker (5) Part of the gun the shopkeeper holds (5) Perishes (4) Posh food (6) Prophets (5) Pass by (time) Phrygian goddess of nature often called Mother of the Gods Partner’s painting Presses so wildly for coffees Part of meal on salver, say Possessor Perhaps I'm a southern bird Passage from one end of Salonica to the other? (4) Purchase (3) Poetry (5) Position of avoiding attention Pakistan Test cricketer who took 7-119 against New Zealand at Wellington in 1994 Port in Japan; largest city on Okinawa Island Protein hormone secreted in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans Port in SW Sweden on the Sound opposite Copenhagen Preserved dent in another form Pagan gets two articles first Payment Pungent Peruse Provide only a novel Peewit (7) Petty (7) Party allowed by Yard? That's chicanery! (9) Purchase (3) Poetry (5) Painful Potter’s oven Principality in the United Kingdom whose capital is Cardiff Port and former capital of Nigeria on the Bight of Benin Possibly airs a garment Prunes have to manage Principles of the empty traps Plant ovules Pen part Plunder Place and time for badger's retreat Paintings of cress growing wild Present in trees to attract animal Pooh's feline friend (6) Place (4) Prophetic sign (4) Purchase (3) Poetry (5) Play-act Point to the Spanish swimmer Put up with having left one Dutch export Pitch Prophet endlessly devouring American dessert Phase (5) Prise (5) Perennial plants (7) Propriety (7) Paper quantities (5) Perfect Particle of matter Pancake Profound Pastry item Pitch Prison (informal) (4) Public functionary (8) Prominent foreigner in the way (7) Piece of Bach, perhaps: leave it alone to start with (7) Problem amalgamating tin and silver (4) Press lecturer to leave stuff (6) Photographed piece that can encourage reluctant union (7) Primate goes after doctor to give him cover (5) Put down a song (3) Punctuation mark (5) Punk hairstyle (7) Practises boxing (5) Pattern of small curving shapes Play on words Process of learning Port and resort in Lazio, Italy; site of Allied landings in World War II Port on the River Danube; capital of Upper Austria Performs part of bible Posterior Part of a fork (4) Plain (9) Protein present in wheat (6) Presumably it will show up lack of weight (5) Piled so could plunder (7) Poet, perhaps, is a non-expert (6) Pig-headed operative is supporter of faction (8) Put me up at last to make corrections (5) Planet (7) Prayer ending (4) Photographer (7) Perpetuity Poses a question Persevere doggedly Programme of physical exercises Partner’s painting Paying passenger Priest with no air has trouble breathing Poison not often seen by copper Poet at home after frolic Provisional — hesitant (9) Pinnacle of achievement (4) Pitiful person (6) Price (4) Pointed beard (6) Permit (3) Prickly plants Prematurely or inopportunely Public school Phil —, rugby union prop whose 1976 Ireland Test debut was against France Prohibit German sound Pompous Predatory fish Painful affliction Part for Greta Garbo that's child's play Puberty (11) Perfectly suited (5) Providing stimulus while quoting (8) Puss's visit evokes derisive yell (7) Planet (4) Principal (4) Protect (6) Pinch sharply Portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel Piano melody — or duo Piece of cake for girl in uniform Positions men take up in Waterloo and Austerlitz? (6,8) Plant once again lush, climbing (5) Providing stimulus while quoting (8) Puss's visit evokes derisive yell (7) Planet (4) Principal (4) Protect (6) Professional cook Permit Previously used in poetry Provide plaster Proverbially busy flyer Point to the Spanish swimmer Pantry Piece of material Playing cards Possibly Elvis is not dead Power (8) Pollen-producing part of a flower (6) Pluck — intestines (4) Providing stimulus while quoting (8) Puss's visit evokes derisive yell (7) Planet (4) Principal (4) Protect (6) Preoccupied, forgetful Precious metal Platform for actors Phase pets out People’s event Painful Place of worship Pathetic cooking pot I use Pay; job specification (5) Painful (4) Pull with a rope (3) Previous Pullovers Pillow Port in Finistère, France; a major naval station of the country Pope upset the backwards Spanish race Policeman finding sand, say, by large plant Possess Put in awkward situation with pen — one held by me Purple-skinned veg? Not in a French inn Part of novel destined for one with seniority? Powdered coffee (7) Politician's function to stop terrorists' influences (7) Provides the money to move Times? (7) Piece of card (5) Printing libellous piece that's plausible (4) Practical detailed study gets boy qualified (10) Plonk from French politician (4) Picture within another (5) Periodic Period of sixty minutes Piece of music composed for three people Plant of the pea family such as the Common — with pink flowers and a tough woody stem Prunella —, actress whose roles have included Miranda Thorpe in ITV sitcom Constant Hot Water Priest playing in band Point to the Spanish swimmer Point seat out Paradoxical odds? Pause Pitcher Pastime Part of circular course? Part of a church near the altar (7) Puzzle set, turns and hands it over (8) Plenty of success in the past, moving round (1,4,3) Put off pit daily, in short, with resolution (12) Plant (4) Paul —, composer of the 1929 opera News of the Day Period of five years Put up with having left one bloomer Painting of them Urals Public transport Phobia Paused Posterior Playthings lost by people not all there Philosopher and economist, John Stuart ___ , d. 1873 (4) Playthings (4) Part of France's established church (8) Procedure for rejecting an antique settee left uncovered outside (9) Putting one's cards on the table twice? (6-7) Permission to cut the foliage short (5) Person's private book (5) Pantihose (6) Poker stake (4) Pass on (5) Person Prima donna Piece of music performed during an interval between two acts of a play or opera P M —, Australia Test cricketer who took 5-59 against South Africa at Sydney in 2009 Pilgrim Fathers’ ship Pulses Panic Powerful vessel Police officer gets near disturbance Phrase on a coat of arms (5) Pooh, investing first of his old pennies, made a nicker (8) Place legal restrictions on container port (4,4) Praters get upset with previous outstanding player (4,9) Package (6) Pimple Pen name of essayist Charles Lamb Purple or violet transparent variety of quartz used as a gemstone Professors get me back to spirits Pays and gets comfortable Pinched shawl Partner’s painting Palms off small songs Projecting bay window (5) Part of the eye (5) Prime minister 1976–79 (9) Part of Manhattan is sedate surprisingly (4,4) PM to resign? Has to go about it tortuously (7) Praters get upset with previous outstanding player (4,9) Package (6) Primo —, author of 1975’s The Periodic Table Part of the Far East Plural of is Previous day Public school Publish Photograph new growth Partnersip possibly includes animal Poor handwriting (6) Praters get upset with previous outstanding player (4,9) Package (6) Panted Promise to put pressure on sill Play dishonestly Polynesian artist outside a hospital Paleozoic fossil with a three-part exoskeleton (9) Put your finger on how to raise money (5) Proposition from her to me (7) Possibly retains, though being less agreeable (7) Punish with stick? (5) Petty lie (3) Pileous (5) Put up, build Period preceding Easter Pleasant but tinged with sadness Province of Canada whose capital is Edmonton Patrick —, actor whose roles included George Bissinger in film drama The Way We Were Peter —, author of the stage works The Investigation and Marat/Sade Pay to get comfortable Previously used in poetry Partner’s painting Prohibit Pastry item Politician in obvious statement of political idiocy (8) Pass by the Spanish church feature (6) Picture earl with flies undone (6) Pub diet for slimmers? (5) Principal in hospital after car crash (4) Prophet entertained by Grandma Moses Picture painted initially by false traitor Primate runs after large bird Put two and two together again - and mend! (6) Popularly hoaxes youngsters (4) Period of time (4) Pig pen (3) Pixie (3) Portly (5) Point to the Spanish swimmer Payment Partially Play dishonestly Painful affliction Perspiration Pick up article in valley Proper codes with our crackers Participating (7,2) Pal (4) Potentates connected with the House of Orange? (9) Plunges (5) Puts one's feet up (5) Paradise (4) Pantries Placard Plant type Possesses Plant of the genus Iberis such as the Gibraltar — or Evergreen — Place is strangely particular Panic doesn’t start by mistake Pastime Pitcher Port of Norway Produce artwork in Letchworth Pa leaves Spanish dish for girl Pulling leg? One might be used to stick on board (7,3) Peter out with Rod and Jack on this? (8) Prince with monsters making advances (10) Point made with carbon copy (4) Prepare for press when it flows back (4) Punctuation mark (5) Plunder (4) Poetry (5) Port in Israel on the Gulf of Aqaba Patricia —, actress whose roles have included Lynn Wentworth in 1998 comedy-drama film Pecker President of Yugoslavia from 1953-80 born Josip Broz Pledge to hand over Pleased to find Eastern forest opening Put pressure on material Post Part of body seen by the Spanish officer Padre confused about year spoke to God Pinpoint (6) Possibly sit and boo an instrumentalist (6) Pony, hot and shaken, may create havoc (7) Produce eggs (3) Protective suit (6) Plug, bung (7) Player's first game (5) Port and largest city in Kansai, Japan Protruding part of the face below the mouth Performing with a trio, touring province People’s event Possibly airs a robe Pardoned construction of grave Positive ruse would work Plant beginning to suffer after climate change Pack of cards for fortune-tellers (5) Previous (5) Positive articles regarding all the gods (8) Possibly sit and boo an instrumentalist (6) Pony, hot and shaken, may create havoc (7) Produce eggs (3) Protective suit (6) Plug, bung (7) Player's first game (5) Provide or obtain funds for Poison Pleasant Projecting edge Pallid Panic that wakes you up Prepares collections Proverbs nowadays take a long time Provided German greeting Pole Previous day Pronoun Public transport Plural of is Prisoner is useful and is not wasteful Plant poles in Scottish river Place of refuge (5) Possibly sit and boo an instrumentalist (6) Pony, hot and shaken, may create havoc (7) Produce eggs (3) Protective suit (6) Plug, bung (7) Player's first game (5) Potter’s oven Paradise Possessions Policeman in his element Plant in different vein Pole forced to walk Picture one prisoner Poet who has text valued Post office accepts stolen picture Personal impression that is very individual (11) Personal property in Eastern kingdom (6) Permit (3) Particular (6) Puma (6) Person's residence, slang (3) Premature Position of a bloomer Prunes have to manage Public speaker Pinkish-yellow colour Prisoner has stick brought back for bird Poor hen, somehow, one bound to fail Pushing dog away to get bone Please sit down! (4,1,3) Perfumed (8) Pre-meal drink (8) Pacific island country, before independence the Ellice Islands (6) Politician amid vote I cite when agitated is vying with others? (11) Pub employee showing skill when interrupting binge (9) Perplex rugby player, reversion to an older type (9) Pots are made of grass (7) Presumably services cost nothing here (4,6) Poetry right for the river (4) Pace (4) Palm tree native to NE Brazil; source of a yellowish wax used as a polish Paul —, Swiss artist whose works include 1928's Cat and Bird Part of the community Party animal Particle Principal, most important Portal Period of darkness People organised under a single government (6) Period preceding an important event (3-2) Piece of material used to enlarge a garment (6) Period in which monarch managed to create order (7) Princess with three siblings, mostly appropriate (4) Plenty of time to muse (5) Painting turned up after century, source of inspiration for historian (4) Place set aside for development (4,4) Perhaps pity is love, really (10) Pronounced similarities (6) Prophet (4) Pen fluid (3) Peculiar (3) Pen part (3) Press (4) Proverb (5) Processed meat (5) Pointed tooth (4) Pleasure craft Performs on stage Problem page editor Prosecute Portico at the west end of a basilica or church, especially one at right angles to the nave Produce notes on organ Pale sort of ring Pitman sounds unimportant Piece Politician taking drink outside — more than enough Philosopher has time for item of jewellery Pressing (6) Passes over the Guardian's standard (7) Posh trend — pace about bare floorboards? (10) Perhaps China's promise to take liberal prisoner with Queen (5,5) Patient care is their concern (6) Prairie wolf (6) Perceive (5) Philipp —, Germany 2014 FIFA World Cup Final-winning captain Points out part of face Petal-shaped dish Panes smashed by tree Pause Poplar Padre's conversion treated leniently Pet swallow (4) Plastered husband before noon has me blushing (8) Producing memoirs about one's vocation (9) Partake of food (3) Premium Bonds machine (5) Plump (3) Pallid Person or thing of prime importance Percussion instrument made from a hollow gourd commonly used in Latin American music Produced edam, possibly Possibly resign as a musician Pleasing key to solving clue on time Partition Posterior Postpone Paddle held by skateboarders Pavement edge (4) Playground item (6) Pupil's proper dress (6,7) Profane (7) Playful composition (7) Penny-pinching pillager, crooked Frenchman on the fiddle (9) Places to park behind vehicles from Spain (5) Producing memoirs about one's vocation (9) Partake of food (3) Premium Bonds machine (5) Plump (3) Plant ovule Peggy —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for A Passage to India Plural of is Package Perspire Procure Poles suffer internally - they're hammered Plunge (4) Path of a projectile subject to gravity (8) Producing memoirs about one's vocation (9) Partake of food (3) Premium Bonds machine (5) Plump (3) Putty-like substance Plenty Paul —, English golfer who won the 1987 Panasonic European Open Philippine plant related to the banana whose leafstalks are the source of Manila hemp Pleased with relaxation Paradise Put out when it's time to go back Precious gem (4) Purgative, emetic (5) Portly (5) Prosecutes (4) Proverb Previous day Policeman Possess Paradise Picture of one male, mature Past maker? Part of people's language? Plaything on a string (4) Pitiful tale of son of a bitch and Southern politician (3,5) Papers initially banned under ministerial framework (4) Passed a territory containing grave (6) Powerless to cross street to get bananas (8) Proceeds to make family wear labels (7) Property right patron drops outside of court (4) Pair stood up to being duplicitous (3-5) Present spot useful for controlling channels (3,6) Portly individual starts fight (5,3) Professed experts in basic physics? (8,3) Pertinent (8) Plant (4) Pointed beard (6) Press stud Porridge ingredient Paper hanky Pig pen Principal Patrick —, New Zealand-born rugby league player at Widnes Vikings between 2012 and 2019 Possibly arming at the border Press club Powerful Put down Pastime Publication that may be used in church Poor mortals not right? Not quite! Persecutes fellows caught in legal wrongs (8) Properly adjust a file, by the sound of it (5) Play on words (3) Pungent (5) Postpone (5) Predicament (7) Pinch (3) Photo book (5) Plaything Portable bridge Practice boxing Part of Far East Plunder Parson gets woven garments Part of the rigging one can buy, by the sound of it Person noteworthy for only a single achievement (3-5,4) Poor raggedly dressed city child (6) Poet mislaying his third watch (5) Prime minister's surreptitious bug (6) Pop wants gradually to remove Thatcher at the beginning, that prickly character (3,5-6) Put the graduates in charge - that's fundamental (5) Putting in an appearance and acting as a servant (9) Prima donna (4) Purchase (3) Play for time (5) Pickling solution (5) Prayer ending Push to one side Pith helmet Peter —, actor who played Paul Ryman in BBC TV sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles Place is terribly significant Plait of hair Portal Prison chamber Piece of material Pitch Phew! (5,8) Placing two things side by side (13) Polish city on the Baltic (6) Prone, racing, to go to topless (5) Possessing will, still, to gather animals up (7) Powerful (6) Pigeon's call (3) Pub game (5) Poke Perhaps Practical but imprecise approach Period of 366 days Pressure to lie about stately home Put dial away for approval Place of learning is effeminate to you and me Practice, custom Plain dress I repair Portable anti-tank weapon (7) Play bricks (4) Position close to the action? (8,4) Powerful (6) Pigeon's call (3) Pub game (5) Portable anti-tank gun Patterns on a zebra Perfume Phone up Photo book Plastic or rubber sandal with a thong between the big and second toe Plant related to the onion; a national emblem of Wales Plan for brides remains Proportions about fish People’s event Pastry item Period of time Plural of is Popular on the Internet Playing card Poem about duke's first wife? Province forming part of Paul's territory Prevent from happening (6) Pop-up breakfast food (5) Prejudice (7) Precise (4,2) Powerful (6) Pigeon's call (3) Pub game (5) Poster Pat —, late jockey who rode Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame Pale yellow cheese with holes named after its place of origin in Switzerland Possibly resign as a musician Posted nets off Public vehicle Poet in pub close to Eisteddfod Patella (7) Possibly the bankers or philanderers produce them (6,6) Put on (3) Plume (7) Push Poker stake Perfect Peter —, 1988 Olympic 1,500m gold medallist Part of community Proverbially busy flyer Protection Possess Precisely Payment Provided a speech to read in assembly? Pence put up as tribute Police officer severe with southern areas Painful (4) Plant of the buttercup family — am I novelist? (anag) (4-2-1-4) Pithy remark (7) Pass on support stone (9) Propose food schedule (5) Pay bonus in post (7) Players cause titter in class (13) Pale like a layer (5) Pack up the tents and make off? (6) Pig noises (6) Provide food Paul —, American patriot known for his night ride of April 18, 1775 Port in the S Republic of Ireland at the mouth of the River Lee Pace of trade varies Part of an ensemble Dvorak conducted Pamper a group of senior officers? Put together very badly — like houses Pass from one person to another (8) Parade prop (5) Popular musical instrument, extremely tactile, but untouched? (9) Prohibition on string causes explosion (4) Popular girl gives drug to egghead (7) Play with something to make Ted wild! (7) Port in Yemen (4) Photographer's device (6) Plunges (5) Phone service for people in distress Pretend to sing Peninsula in the N Adriatic Sea whose chief city is Pula Pam —, playwright who authored 1978 musical biography Piaf Permit old wall alteration Prize raised by council leader Pleasant beer ordered for car workers Pope portrays bad people who spoil the enjoyment of others Porky pie teller (4) Partners after the Guardian's money entering loan, if poorly represented in time? (4-11) Picture finally framed by buddies on display behind 12 (5,4) Palace guard Newcastle United centre half after eight unbelievable headers (6) Pacific agreement (5,4) Provides relaxation in eastern seas, maybe (5) Putting on another frock, we hear - it happens when one moves (6,2,7) Pleasure craft (6) Put up (5) Period of 24 hours (3) Paunch (3) Presses (5) Potato (4) Port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital of the Belgian Congo until 1926 Patchy growth Pronoun Part of the address given by principal Particular feature of something (5) Padded part of an easy chair (7) Parsley-like herb (7) Police officer once excited with strip (9) Planet Pinch Pull this to open a parachute Pakistan Test cricketer who took 7-119 against New Zealand at Wellington in 1994 Port in SW Iceland that houses an international airport Patrick —, British town planner and architect who authored 1944 document the Greater London Plan Pastry dish left in cooler Piles of hay and fruit in foreign conveyance Places to search for tides? Prophet follows country painter Prod (4) Primates (4) Pixie (3) Provide (3,2) Prevent any progress (6) Pleasingly sharp to the taste (5) Piece of meat entirely disposed of (5) Power drive (5) Prod (4) Primates (4) Pixie (3) Percussion instrument Piece of jewellery Parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland; former site of the Pictish capital Permit to hire Put off animal, with time Pals out on strike Plural of is Previous day Precious metal Put together grooming aid in east Person who deflects negative attention from someone else — gliding north (anag) (9,3) Piece of meat entirely disposed of (5) Power drive (5) Prod (4) Primates (4) Pixie (3) Place apart Pair from union in party Pale sort of ring Pass on Perhaps he signs form for shopkeepers Procedure (6) Portent (4) Pugilist (5) Prolonged applause Prolonged argument or dispute Pig sound Potential city shelter Polish worker's increase Present for Danish leader in English city Persistently annoy prince Poultry house (4) Part of job of fine scientist (6) Postman Pat has this wild animal biting villagers, primarily! (7) Port in endless disorder (3) Post-prandial train-fender (5-6) Permit such a hindrance (3) Perch (5) Prose composition (5) Pistachio, for example (3) Place for bees (6) Produce shoots (6) Perhaps 2000 or 2020 players struggle to control Real's midfield (4,5) Perhaps 11p fur? (6) Post-prandial train-fender (5-6) Permit such a hindrance (3) Perch (5) Prose composition (5) Pistachio, for example (3) Part of the film? Pierce Prisoner Paradise Pay for bench Pennant shown by vessel? That's about right Prepare to shoot (4,3) Permeable (6) Part of pipe introducing a water source (5) Player is entering races on ice (10) Preserved, though the worse for wear (7) Pressure admitted by rather scholarly doctor prone to slips (7) Police raid road transport depot, finally (4) President continues to ridicule housing fines (9) Provincial leader called for transport strike (5) Professional movements will produce preferments (10) Pares (5) Pitch (3) Part of Far East Pale sort of spring Proofreader’s mark Pitch Partly determining final points Place for parking unwanted items? (5) Personal (3) Put to practical use — like some fruit? (5) Presumably it runs through a textbook on embroidery (6) Private feud (8) Planet (6) Parody (8) Piece (3) Playthings (4) Person kept in jail Pest Pines away for some courage Peacock rose up awkwardly Press club Pressure to get new trade separated Payment method Practises boxing Published again Partial deliveries coming back by rail Part of song about Egyptian god Positive aspects (7) Protest march (abbr) (4) Pop turned back as I entered to say goodbye (5) People enter for this sort of sport (6) Person aged 15, for example (8) Petty lie (3) Postage label Port on E North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay Pals out on strike Proverbially busy flyers Pal working on ship Prickly plant Posterior Prince holding coffee in dish Parts for poor loser? Paddington Bear's favoured garment (6,4) Previously (4) People enter for this sort of sport (6) Person aged 15, for example (8) Petty lie (3) Person who steals Planet’s path Pavement edge Panic that wakes you up Perfect sitter Plates changing colour Placid engineers seen working outside Point to the Spanish swimmer Pauses to get snooker aids Prototype Poem People enter for this sort of sport (6) Person aged 15, for example (8) Petty lie (3) Puma Peter —, 1964 Olympic 800m and 1,500m gold medallist Pets turn out to be vermin Peruse Punch Plunder Party longing for most respected member Pole raised German article and fought Proposition — set us going (anag) (10) Prevent from being ruined (7) Problems (4) Productive farmland (6) Prohibit giving publicity to old writer (9) Poet sounds exhausted (5) Persuade one aboard to steer boat (4) Please, teacher, I have a letter (7) Painful (4) Planet (4) Particle of matter (4) Pig-pen (3) Price Pig sound Proportion Peaceful agreement and cooperation Poem by John Masefield included in 1902 volume Salt-Water Ballads Port in SW Sweden on the Sound opposite Copenhagen Position of a bloomer Please move and pass Payment method for swimmer Pastel caught on material Present in the recording Plead to exchange bicycle part Plant life Primate Providing education can make it change Pal exorcising right devil Proof of purchase Pace rated incorrectly Pasta turned out to be Spanish food Provide more weapons (5) Part of speech (6) Parliamentary official — cold bark (anag) (5,3) Political leader holds back gentleman, a solid figure (5) People who obtain information with an effort (6) Profit in a way when in opposition (7) Port and university city in W Turkey Plant with greenish-white flowers cultivated for its edible rounded bulb Python in Rudyard Kipling novel The Jungle Book Prison articles for biblical land Pot me (anag) (5) Perhaps gents love farm animals crossing river in Scottish village (4,1,6) Place sandwiches on starter of cucumber chopped in advance (3-3) Person sliding down rocked boat, going over stone (11) Picaroon's turned up funky tune for a dance (6) People who obtain information with an effort (6) Profit in a way when in opposition (7) Picture puzzle (5) Price (4) Panther (7) Passing critical remark Play on words Plant of North America, Europe and Africa with large spikes of brightly coloured flowers Pale sort of request Precious metal Province Perceptive Principle Progressive Indian state gets leader Produce Greene novel about Central London Purchaser (5) Pinafore (5) Produce eggs (3) Planet (5) Punish or correct Prue —, food writer who authored novels A Lovesome Thing and Leaving Patrick Peak viewing Prepare clothes Perhaps limpet mine finally smothered by military unit before capture (3,5) Proceed without pause, wanting, for example, to take legal action (3) Perhaps Cher's in bed, scratching bottom (4) Places one often visits (6) Proportion (5) Punch and Judy, say (5,7) Paradise Lost originally penned by chap in fear (9) Puzzling trick covered by journalist in solemn observance (9) Pick the artist for a play by Sophocles (7) Part of the wedding dress that shouldn't be missed on the honeymoon! (5) Plan to present a film (7) Paradise (4) Poetry Pat —, show jumper who won the European Championships women's competition from 1961-63 Possibly resign as a musician Pride’s displayed by creepy-crawly Pastime I play in Latin Pardoned Pasta sauce Poems Payment Paint, for example, good racing boat Pick the artist for a play by Sophocles (7) Part of the wedding dress that shouldn't be missed on the honeymoon! (5) Plan to present a film (7) Paradise (4) Popular house plant Prize Patricia —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Hud Permit Piece of material Professional Pastoral leader with a mitre, perhaps Plant seeds for Miss Piggy? Private cabin, say, with space Part of the Mediterranean between Europe and Asia (6) Pastry dish (— or headgear?) (4,3) Place like the V&A, say (6) Piece of embroidery (7) Pick the artist for a play by Sophocles (7) Part of the wedding dress that shouldn't be missed on the honeymoon! (5) Plan to present a film (7) Paradise (4) Pedigree animal Prime minister Persists determinedly Puzzle, bewilder Pauline —, actress who played the title role in 1990s BBC TV series Maisie Raine Point a set out Playing card Particle Pub found by green, say, showing distinctive features of a place (5,6) Prepare round figure in part of a theatre (5,6) Postponing a mistake of the green? (7,2,3) Podium (4) Put on (3) P M —, cricketer whose 1993 England Test debut was against Australia at Manchester Plant credit note on ship Pitch Paid in post but badly let down Parent of female with broken heart Performer (6) Pack to capacity (4) Parking not easy to get in van or car (7) Proper wages for unhelpful official (9) Protein in body once developed to limit rising bile (8) Put rubbish in this (3) Permit (3) Presumed to house birds from the east? Precipitous, sheer Precipitation beginning to settle currently Prudence heard a member of Galsworthy's family Philosopher makes an effort about reading comics (4,8) Place for gymnastics routine that's correct (2,3,4) Performing a kind of dance, like some beers (2,3) Pluckily she plays his part perhaps (7) Prise (5) Pulls with a rope Poison —, Eurasian plant that contains the alkaloid coniine Precious metal Painful Post Period of time Plate Particle Pointed tool Policeman promises to pay in full Put into words (6) Proverbially dead birds (5) Promoter travels by ship, it's said, to island (8) Past attempt to one's heart's desire (1,4) Prepare to put out with the turn of the tide (4) Picture house (6) Pare (4) Pen part (3) Phantom, visitant Portent Projection at the front of the neck Pegboard Poisonous snake such as the Banded — or Common — Partner’s painting Pity has affected me Pamper island group Price upset Scot Pronoun Play for laughs, cracking my code? Pungent red pepper (7) Pronto (2,4) Pole dancing doctor lubed after rotation? (5) Poles securing trained part of plant (6) Profligate deserted (9) Part of a gun to hole the fortification, we hear (6) Provoked to employ a staff all round (7) Public transport almost broke! (3) Peerless description of a bachelor (9) Property man is a spy associated with eastern country (6,5) Plaything (3) Post off (5) Parody Perch-shaped fish of a dark olive green colour Port in SW Scotland housing the Wallace Tower Post ends off Pay to get comfortable Point stew out Panic, finding line on neck Part of speech idealists rebuke Place to lie low (7) Profligate deserted (9) Part of a gun to hole the fortification, we hear (6) Provoked to employ a staff all round (7) Public transport almost broke! (3) Peerless description of a bachelor (9) Property man is a spy associated with eastern country (6,5) Plaything (3) Post off (5) Pledge of marriage Pop flavour Port in N Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar Perform in Clacton Pleased with relaxation Pam struggled in the current Party animal Piece of material Panic Poet embracing one TV pioneer Praise for a cook is not rare Precious metal for Long John Plant mould (6) Profligate deserted (9) Part of a gun to hole the fortification, we hear (6) Provoked to employ a staff all round (7) Public transport almost broke! (3) Peerless description of a bachelor (9) Property man is a spy associated with eastern country (6,5) Plaything (3) Post off (5) Prohibit Pimento Phyllis —, actress whose roles have included Lady Jane Felsham in BBC TV series Lovejoy Plant of the daisy family; the national emblem of Scotland Pass out of recollection Possibly resign as a musician Picture one prisoner Payment Public school Prima donna Practise boxing Perfect! (4,3,6) Pretend not to notice (4,1,5,3) Prosecute — Vulcan is to be an informer (7) Poet penniless on drug reportedly; this might mask the smell (9) Persevere to maintain a bird as pet (4,2,2) Play time (5) Point wrongly claimed (7) Panatella, for example (5) Paper quantity Put money in Precious metal Pinafore Phil —, 1984 Olympic slalom skiing gold medallist Public school Pointed tool Put in prison, we hear, one after the other People — music genre (4) Penny's annoyed by design originally being copied without permission (7) Pisa can't be rebuilt by leaders (8) Promising young actors allowed among the big names (8) Perform in concerts in Germany (4) Put a label on pillow-filling reduced in price (6,4) Perspires (6) Percussion instrument (4) Plucked musical instrument Purchaser Pelvis Pat —, US golfer who won the 2009 Bob Hope Classic Pete —, 2002 US Open singles tennis champion Part of Far East Part sounds like a problem Party animal Point stew out Payment Pictures youngsters keep at home? Period leading up to Christmas (6) Prince's saying more protection (7) Physical coming-together? Duke is accepting restraint on movement (10) Presumably a handbook will give instructions about this (8) Properly assimilate something that's been potted (6) Pirate flag (5,5) Proportion (5) Pencil rubber Pleased with relaxation Presenter shot off Put off animal, with time Portable gas Portals Peruse Pry Precision in current clergyman's office Perfect old instrument with a brass casing on top Point that decides between success and total disaster (4-2-5) Polish yearly statement acknowledging a lack of alternative options? (6) Point of no return for champion (3) Places to dock for the rest of the voyage (6) Parcel (6) Precipitation (3) Playthings Part of meal on salver, say Precious Pitch Practised Pick up little devil and travel Put on light that's off Poet with bad sonnet about New York Police in action taking fifty years? Without question! Prosecutors holding everyone in a Texas city Precious (8) Present a fight around that time (10) Perhaps a cockney chicken: we hear one shouting (6) Plant left one at the close to seal a victory (8) Place for shipping wine (4) Piece (3) Planet (7) Protection for the head (6) Pursue relentlessly (5) Pleasant smell Past tense of take Proverbially busy flier Pantomime character is hot stuff Pleasant Playing card Passageway Parasitic insect (4) Place for shipping wine (4) Piece (3) Planet (7) Protection for the head (6) Pursue relentlessly (5) Prosecution-free period Port in Seine-Maritime, France, with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex Prisoner has left silver Point to the Spanish swimmer Predatory sea creatures Precise former spouse has to do something Praise (4) Place for shipping wine (4) Piece (3) Planet (7) Protection for the head (6) Pursue relentlessly (5) Prying or inquisitive Passage of music played at a moderately slow tempo Part of ammunition Pursue trimness, concealing fat Pivot and throw a six Pure form of land Picture one prisoner Priest disturbed band Planet Protection against cats and dogs? Platform for rum sort, perhaps Pass over pages on English or French port Paintings put up around grand Irish town Part of core curriculum to come up again (5) Present opportunities are in store here (4,4) Payment demanded for stored electricity? (6) Pinch (3) Public outburst (6) Premium (5) Prophets (5) Prevalent Period of 30 minutes Paolo —, Florentine painter whose works include The Battle of San Romano, 1432 Point duet out – a piece of music Permit Periodical (8) Poplar or pine? (4) Philanthropist abandons half the Hebridean islands (4) Parson from 7 (6) Pen sounds more correct (6) Produce eggs (3) Presents (5) Pals out on strike Plead to exchange bicycle part Portable two-way radio (6-6) Pay — our men earn it (anag) (12) Perpetually angry people irritating to barmen (4-1-3) Proper charge (3) Pleasure, merriment (3) Playthings (4) Plant (4) Perceive (5) Procession Public speaker Precipitation form Phase pets out Primate gets kiss at summit Poems Pace Peak Prosciutto, eg Peers settle heartless quarrels Pitch the tent on American university ground (6) Points a gun (4) Partial or total darkness (5) Price (4) Pig pen (3) Painful Personnel Provide with something needed Purpose of camping? Pessimist Plunder Pony carriage (4) Praise highly (5) Part of a shoe (5) Pick up good meat suitable for Jack Sprat Popular pot plant (8) Platform for disembarking (7,5) Proof of purchase (7) Pull with a rope (3) Permits, tolerates (7) Prises (6) Pig sound (5) Prosecute (3) Prosecute Prickly plants Particles of cut wood Place in the earth of hinterlands Phones for sculptures Puzzled Perhaps cur upset old thief Praise — honour (5) Person fleeing war Proverb Permission to go Pace rated incorrectly Pam struggled in the current Performs part of the bible Passageways Previous day Period of fasting Pronoun Plural of is Proof of purchase (7) Pull with a rope (3) Permits, tolerates (7) Prises (6) Pig sound (5) Prosecute (3) Pole forced to walk Prudence got coarse Positive ruse would work Praise pet that's chewed a tasty morsel (9) Publicise artistic activity in flyers (8) Pleasure after a sort of bath is sweet (7,7) Post-lunch get a paper, nobody around to hamper reading (9) Pulsate Promise to be quiet on sill Pairs cavort for Trojan prince Picture one game differently Pensioners’ card gives liberty to overtake Pressure to get a French joke Play on words Panic Provoked within view, caught by day (7) Perhaps Bell and Edison's financial backers have change of heart (9) Physicist's hesitation with car following reality (bonnet's missing) (10) Polish guards caught old thieves lobbying leaders in country (8) Pioneer surrenders ring to one supplying capital (6) Phylum of invertebrates that includes the sponges Phone feature to increase in value Pass on (5) Planned beforehand Process of collecting together Poke Precious Playing cards Phrase translated into Nepalese Puzzle solver's goal (8) Place where coats can be left Pass by like time Port and second largest city in Namibia Pain of hypochondriac heightened Philip goes east on tube Possessive pronoun Period of time Pharaoh using force to restrain leaders of Hebrew exodus Provide an autograph (4) Period in prison (7) Perhaps fin or tail of whiting are broken at the end (5) Place trap for fish around regions close to the Nile Delta? (4,4) Pullovers (8) Permits (6) Potatoes (5) Playground item (6) Put on (3) Permit fine crash to be averted Pry Passionate Pictures depicting clouds Pastime Plump, rotund Piece of cake (informal) (6) Put upon (6) Picturegoer gutted about some current spoiler? (8) Pounds given to one with potential for debt (9) Port on the River Vistula; capital of Poland from 1038 to 1569 Piece of music composed for three people Pot maker in production Personal assistant left an ally Permit Pronunciation Pace Period of instruction Pimple Painful (4) Particle of matter (4) Peace bird Pleasantly cold Paradise Plant in Greek mythology whose fruit induced forgetfulness Pacific island; the world's smallest republic Panes smashed by tree Proverb from Lovelace and Georgia Preserved dent in formation Previously used in poetry? Put down Plural ‘to be’? Permit Poplar Pokes Projecting end of a piece of wood that is formed to fit into a mortise in another piece Parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland; former site of the Pictish capital Policeman in his element Public school Plant ovule Prohibited Promptly noted, hot rocks Port in Algeria gets no time for fruit Papal legate (6) Prophetic text in final letter going into East European port (7) Progressing like a rail passenger? (2,5) Parking in beginning in front of garage— it's an offence (8) Person in familiar sense, say, associated with a wine shop (6) Play featuring titled figure generally marginalised by holy books (4,4) Portly (5) Public transport vehicle (3) Pistol case (7) Physically fit or strong Perch Particle of matter Process of learning Pile Point seat out Plaything Poles in characteristic movement Prominent news feature — about power cut Part of a pneumatic tyre (5,4) Plant — airy malls (anag) (9) Pre-1939 name for Thailand (4) Pub extended primarily behind region of vestibule (5,3) Pound secures extravagant type of cheese (7) Public toilets, just half serving men, one gathers (8) Press going through borders work together (4,6) Pure substance dissolved in addition to salt (8) Playwright's brother with genuine following in his own country (6) Preparing gifts before the holiday? (7) Partly burn a fuel that draws well (8) Pathetic (7) Partake of food (3) Plant type Perfume Pictures mentally Proper to go to church for Bible excerpt Plead to exchange bicycle part Possibly airs a garment Picture one prisoner Parts in a theatre (5) Possible aim of epidural containing last of ethanol, solvent (2,3,5) Pen witticism, funny phrase I love? (8) Potter actor underwater? (4,6) Parting couple at the dentist's? (4) Play a part in 100 getting no back tax (10) Prisons (5) Period of instruction (6) People watching a performance Pantry Period of 24 hours Plug, bung Pleasant Person in a book or film Part of the Far East Point to the Spanish swimmer Pale sort of spring Prohibition a student finds trite Pace rated incorrectly Parent gripping black snake Police officer at end of case examining body Preliminary form of conscription Plus plenty more (3,4,4) Prepare to sail (5,6) Pigmeat (5) Provoke to fury (6) Pick-me-up Pasta in the form of narrow tubes Point in its orbit when a planet is at its greatest distance from the sun Party time for Dorothy Permit to hire Pasta or jam Plus, Dad is confused Pause Phone yet to be reconnected for beginner Painting and design for a lower court Publicity, we hear, for a tool Paths laid out over a large pitch Proverbial madman on tail of nervous wreck (7) Produces a secret arrangement (7) Perfume (5) Prepare to pray (5) Party, slang (4) Pull with a rope Peruse writing Planet’s path Province in the central Philippines which includes the island of Mactan Poles are setting trap Poison Projectile Plan and direct a course (8) Produces a secret arrangement (7) Perfume (5) Prepare to pray (5) Party, slang (4) Port in Ukraine on the Black Sea Partner’s painting Place peg on couch Painful affliction Partisan could be one with ambition Policeman starts to search extremely small wood Public house gets a single call Produces a secret arrangement (7) Perfume (5) Prepare to pray (5) Party, slang (4) Protection for the head Promise a victory to old wife Put pressure on contract, if you don’t mind Press club Pronoun Previous day Pledge Play dishonestly Pictures — one million — taking long time Puritans resolved to avoid one hot spot Poles with stake in French city Perfect starter in fabulous meal Pot (7) Prohibition of public activity during certain times (6) Personal teacher (5) Partiality (4) Pelvic floor exercises for footballers (9,1,1) Passion of Dior ultimately found within vintage Vogue covers (5) Pick up hot dog (5) Pleasure craft (6) Put away (4) Planetoid Precise Place where cars are on display Progression Pungent Pear-shaped fruit with a leathery green or blackish skin Placido —, Spanish tenor and conductor whose New York singing debut was in 1965 Perfume was posted, we hear Pronoun Phone left in shady place Pirates assembling store of beer Part of opera Callas initially rejected Prepare for some future role (5) Pointy-nosed furry creature said to live in London on Wimbledon Common (6) Persons on horseback (6) Put down what is correct, we hear (5) Pakistani city (6) Plant disease (6) Permit (3) Pressed (6) Pulsate (5) Performed (4) Places apart Paradise Part of Sheffield — or a don's fabulous city Possibly start with profile for this sort of painting? Petty fit (4) Pasta parcels (7) Percussionist hero accompanying Romeo (5) Poor outcome of a press mix-up (6) Paltry rag by leg (8) Partly claim pell-mell drive was necessary (5) Person's private book (5) Paying guests (7) Perpendicular (5) Perceive sound (4) Pub singing entertainment Peter —, Labour MP for Neath from 1991-2015; Secretary of State for Wales from 2002-08 Poisonous evergreen shrub also called rosebay Peter —, actor who played Chris Tate in ITV soap Emmerdale from 1989-2003 Pale sort of spring Private eye has good hog Pierce Put forward Project generating a safe steady return (4,3) Parent (sometimes with long legs or sugar) (5) PC? Priti Patel’s flapping around getting interviewed, for example (4,10) Poke with end of sharp stick (4) Polish almost off new shoe (4-2) Pantry is apparently not yet full (5,4) Peruse writing (4) Powerful businessman (5) Perennial plant Pressure is about English tarts Pause to look at timer Pitch Pastry items Precipitation Purify (6) Prepare to sail vessel, cape appearing in hour at sea (2-6) Propose a trip round capital of Vietnam (7) Prospects vis-a-vis tastes in part (6) Plunges (5) Pace (4) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pig-pen (3) Primate Penny, eg Prima donna Perfect sitter Permissible to run away! Present during the recording Push to shut out the French Pattern Put Pretence with intent to deceive (5) Purchaser (5) Plumber's friend? (7) Prospects vis-a-vis tastes in part (6) Plunges (5) Pace (4) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pig-pen (3) Precious metal Plant of the mint family whose leaves are used as a pot-herb Pat —, 1987 Wimbledon men's singles tennis champion Pronoun Posterior Primate left behind church where worshippers may gather Permit required for Gaelic ensemble Polite numbers: 101, 6, 50 Prince only eating one sort of fish Plan (6) Prospects vis-a-vis tastes in part (6) Plunges (5) Pace (4) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pig-pen (3) Permit Painful redness or swelling Pakistan Test cricketer who took 7-55 against England in Dubai in 2012 Pale sort of request Pitcher Prose narrative Pretend to have influence Prince, so we hear, getting booster Peevishly irritable, but Clark not heartless (8) Planet Earth's last wetland (5) Parasite found in genitals (3) Proceeds with instruction to enter after part exchange (6) Providing assurance on the way to protect northern tree (10) Permission to proceed (3,5) Part of speech (4) Precocious girl (5) Previous (5) Public speaker (6) Purchase (3) Prison rooms (5) Prohibit Prison room Perceive sounds Procured in Ealing, otherwise Pronounce vaguely Poor Tom is damp Practices found in a more industrious age, seemingly (6) Photographs used by whisky producers (6) Prying person, informally (4,6) Personal pride (3) Paper size Point to the Spanish swimmer Plead to exchange bicycle part Perfumed items have to change Police officer brought back tough duck Powerful petty officer gets mobile home Pleasingly fat (6) Parliament, one about to give a long account (5) Period for buying at reduced prices (4) Pleasure felt following the event (9) Prince Henry taken into vehicle by aliens, oddly vanishing (7) Prepared to interpret symbols by youth leader (5) Perhaps clothes for going abroad last longer (7) Part of the panel within the ship (7) Place to sleep (3) Perspire Purchase small beer Phase pets out Pal up around English skip Pierce Pace Put down drink and newspapers Police officers assigned to princess? Pampas cowboy (6) Peace in Jerusalem? (6) Plodding type (9) Priest oversaw church parade (6) Put one's oar in to reach sporting podium, they say (6) Picture house (6) Provide food (5) Pen part (3) Provincial Predatory fish Port in NW Uruguay; second largest city in the country Pair of short cloth gaiters covering the instep and ankle Performance in carriage Paradoxical odds? Possibly arming at the border Pry Peer with noble qualities? Not entirely Prepared to grab film star Procrastinates (6) Prize draw (7) Phone somewhere in 5 (6) Play on words (3) Particle of sand (5) Puts up (6) Peter —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Pantomime character is hot stuff! Prisoner has inclination to get mountaineering gear Pray do perform satire Printing that treason hasn’t started Princess with instrument lacking concentration? Play on words (3) Particle of sand (5) Puts up (6) Plastic bullet P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder Pallet on the right shows damage Pears used as a weapon Plot is involving firearm Plot article on singer Chris Primate in tapestry Pale Poem Perspiration Pass on grand slips or bloomers Possibly agree with ten or one less than twenty Playing leapfrog, female avoided garden feature Player who pulls out all the stops? (8) Person with an older and more experienced mentor (7) Play on words (3) Particle of sand (5) Puts up (6) Petty quarrel Pagan Pachyderm Pam’s struggling with amount of electricity Proper to put notes next to coin Pleased with relaxation Point stew out Primarily, a lovable rogue Purely random choice (5,3) Perfectly happy (8) Protection for the patella (4,3) Political refugee (6,6) Paul ___ , US bass singer and outspoken political activist, d. 1976 (7) Part of film featuring the French soldiers (7) Posh agent spread viruses? (9) Pilot found in area by hill (7) Push domestic newspapers as far as possible? (5,4) Post off (5) Paradise (4) Produce (8) Pointed beard (6) Prophet (4) Pancreatic hormone (7) Pantomime character (4) Prodded (5) Prayer ending (4) Plant ovule (4) Police spy or informer Purchases Port in SW Iceland housing an international airport Pull Painting support Poor butcher with no time for angel Puddings rising under pressure Present the main points concisely (3,2) Pop's executors? (5) Pleasantly cold (4) Place of learning (6) Petty Period of 10 years Patron Pair of performers Paul —, author of the novels The Mosquito Coast and Doctor Slaughter Part of lethal force Present in the recording Put off being freed indefinitely Phobia Pigment Postpone Putting off daily exercise leads to agitation Park official called Queen Place Franco-German articles in sack (7) Parnassian location's key character there (6) Print made from a design carved in relief into a block (7) Prejudice runs (anag) — study of law and its principles (13) Pinched (6) Posh bloke in rowing venue's content to get honour (7) Praise brief review journalist penned (6) Poly associate admits 'I hated that'!Not exactly (7) Player's first game (5) Percussion instrument Pistol case Pricey Perceives Pressure to get a French joke Press club Primary sea Professor alternatively joins sponsor Precious metal Pastime Play on words Pleased Principal Predict Part of an hour Promise to participate Professionals have it on toast Piece of software for a mobile phone, say (3) Place between one thing and another (9) Poetically frequent (3) Put out present in elevated position (2,5) Produces a toll for personal jewellery (5) Place of safety (5) Put money in (6) Petty quarrels (5) Plant ovule Pinafore Prepared Particle of matter President of Egypt from 1970-81 Position-finding device used in underwater navigation Port in Puglia, SE Italy, on the Adriatic coast Port in Israel on the Bay of Acre Part of the Far East People from Tiber, perhaps Pronoun Pack taken from highlands to waterside Players from Baltimore and Rhode Island in loose formation Part of a blind (4) Parcel lost at the centre unit (4) Peer right inside large foreign hollowed-out entity (4,4) Party's full of large Liberal dummies! (5) Performance of Silence that's painful (4) Percussion instrument made out of our meat-bin! (10) Provincial (5) Petty lie (3) Planet (7) Proportion (5) Pinch (3) Plaything (3) Pursuit Part of a cereal plant containing the seeds Province and largest island of Thailand Pale sort of request Planted geraniums around border Poem in quarto: delightful Paddle boat Poem Post People in authority have taken back prize money Paul goes mad about border flower Proposes (8) Partly close one's eyes (as when suddenly hit by bright light) (6) Percussion instrument made out of our meat-bin! (10) Provincial (5) Petty lie (3) Planet (7) Proportion (5) Pinch (3) Plaything (3) Pleasant Performer’s unusual traits Panes smashed at ski resort Pitch Pinafore Painter Poplar Pole on a yacht Prison agitation Pet's routine badly affected Postpone (7) Percussion instrument made out of our meat-bin! (10) Provincial (5) Petty lie (3) Planet (7) Proportion (5) Pinch (3) Plaything (3) Pinch sharply Philippe —, actor whose roles included Monsieur Lucoville in 1969 adventure film The Assassination Bureau Presenter shot off People’s event Public school Poet Primate going round southern part of church Piece of furniture one removed from Bulgarian capital Pop the question (7) Project (8) Potential (8) Profound (4) Pest flying low round contemptible person (8) Pop in here? (8) Piece of wood: heavy weight that floats in the sea (8) Party underling in ascendancy (8) Prizes will produce conflict in advertisements (6) Provide a newspaper account of the explosion (6) Propriety (7) Portly (5) Party, slang (5) Pull out the feathers of Put money in Parminder —, actress who played Dr Neela Rasgotra in US television series ER Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced Police operation is a pain Plead for three keys Prefect turned out to be ideal Pooh’s friend to get lip fixed Picture one game differently Procure from strange tradesman Play Pondered Publication needing copy to fill page, right? Pheasant, say, shot in Ambridge Prince, idiot to break down (5) Put out a smiling shot (8) Put up with animal (4) Pitch (3) Pig sound Pith helmet Profitable Pimples Percussion instrument Pleased with simplicity Pass out of recollection Position affects space and time Previous day Part of a carpentry join Promise Principal holds right bird Put into quarantine (7) Penchant (for) — decrepit lino (anag) (12) Provides commentary for girl leading seaman round gallery (9) Penny-pinching firm (5) Pass to another owner - who will replace workers? (6,5) Progressive permission to proceed (2-5) Profession one may rush into? (6) Proof (8) Picture within another (5) Photo book Painful Piece of music composed for eight singers Primate gets kiss at summit Pastime Pull Perry ingredient Peak Piece of corn Pained expression covered by reporters showing skill Pulsating pain (5) Perhaps Washington Post journalist took drugs (4) Provide excessively favourable conditions down under? (7-3) Perhaps 3 in 1,000? (3) Put away (4) Providential (6-4) Perish (3) Pen fluid (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Pointed summit of a mountain Percy —, inventor of the Cat’s eye road stud Pull two forcibly Pale sort of request Points out the nose Presses school club first Provided with food Purloined item from furrier? Passage from India is leisurely Per person (4) Prefabricated building with a corrugated iron roof, first produced in WWI (6,3) Point, or points, one repeated (4) Pass by like time (6) Pavement edge (4) Pottery firing oven Perform on stage Picturesque Police informer Permissible to run away Place Posterior Part of spur moved lower Prohibited (7) Polite request (6) Place for looking at engines, say, under trying conditions? (4,3) Pass by like time (6) Pavement edge (4) Prior to Put off Port on the Gulf of Bothnia and capital of Finland in 1918 Partner’s painting Proverbially busy flier Placed Poem Permit Prima donna eager to make a comeback Performs with female deer Printer's instruction to ignore amendment (4) Pass by like time (6) Pavement edge (4) Pacify Practice run Poised for use or action Precipitation form Patrick —, New Zealand-born North Wales Crusaders rugby league player previously with Widnes Vikings Part of community Partner’s painting Picture of one prisoner Prima donna Poster put out quickly for musicians Phone bill initially reduced Puzzle (7) Periodical devoted to a particular subject (7) Plan had name (9) Prepared (5) Plunge into liquid (7) Poetry (5) Pallid Poker stake Poisonous Mediterranean plant that yields the drug hyoscyamine Purpose of camping? Push the vessel Point to the Spanish swimmer Perspiration Public school Playing card Polish picture that depicts decisive crossing Painter, perhaps, with English entertainer People going to Silver Lake for animal collection Plural pronoun, now also used as a gender-neutral substitute for 'she' or 'he' (4) Plug in the night before escape (5) Prepare to protect Queen and Country (7) Poem about Spanish gentleman abroad is unlike any other (3,3,3) Put forward a matter for arbitration but yielded (9) Put into print (7) Prose composition (5) Post off (5) Pig meat Port in Denmark on Funen Island Port in Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes Posted nets off Promise Punishment in school rules Politician getting alliance to occupy half of Serbia Puzzle about vehicle Power for empty crate Perspires (6) Paradise (4) Possess, own (4) Province of SE Pakistan whose capital is Karachi Pick-me-up Phobia Plant Place where cargo is removed last Pirate, 90, suffering a long time in here? (12) Promote development of giant site (9) Presumably he knows a way to sell (6,6) Perplex (6) Produce near copies of (5) Proportion Purchaser Piece of music composed for three people Pleased with contract Prohibition includes English food Pour Pulse Puzzle — UK's duo (anag) (6) Part of a snooker table (7) Prestige (6) Perhaps have received ideal offer at first (7,7) Painter of unusual traits (6) Private coaches? (6) Personal pride (3) Pleasant (4) Pose a question (3) Pig pen (3) Put on Produces eggs Place where bread is sold Previous Present during the recording Pets turn out to be vermin Provide food Pausing Pressing metal in Greek capital Painter of unusual traits (6) Private coaches? (6) Personal pride (3) Pleasant (4) Pose a question (3) Pig pen (3) Parking at home – that’s sharp Pass out, seeing snakes Part of the theatre? Plate shaped like flower part Pronoun Profound Put Plural of is Pollen producer Pleasantly clement (5) Pragmatic (4-2-5) Painter of unusual traits (6) Private coaches? (6) Personal pride (3) Pleasant (4) Pose a question (3) Pig pen (3) Public sale Perfect Plaything Press club Pleased with simplicity Pelt Place of worship Pleasant beer brewed with algae? Pestilence (6) Plato's mentor (8) Pet, what are you in after nine gear changes? (6) Places seethe with excitement for this race (12) Pilot needs this to be highly accurate (9) Part of entrance security vital to flat (6) Pinkish-red growths turn up on Chuck, maybe (10) Perhaps to many a branch of medicine (7) Primary source (6) Provoke to fury (6) Presses clothes (5) Perceive (5) Perfume People looking for someone Permit Prepared Primate Promise solemnly to use bad language Paper money? (4) Progeny (9) President — genuine fellow but spurned English (6) Pope found in English river — a kind of fish (7) Piggy is middle character of three in game (6) Potential sentence material? (7) Praised for hopelessness (7) Promise on oath (5) Provincial (5) Place of embarkation Pirate Possibly arming at the border Purpose of oven door Press club Pause Plant ovule Precious Paradise Probabilities (7) Part of a church running parallel to the nave (5) Propel a canoe (6) Per person (6) Point of view established (4) Press for a bit more fervour generally (4) Possesses (3) Photographer (7) Polite, courteous (5) Pronounce indistinctly (4) Plan of travel Pleasantly smooth or soft Pasta type Put off animal with time Poor little chap captured by French marshal Prior: clergyman in devout environment Playing cards Pitch Protest Precious metal Pledge Post Presumably there is yet hope for art study (5,4) Pitiably lacking money (4) Private evening party (6) Particle of sand (5) Pamper Programme on TV and radio Plant supports Provocative article about something that's boring Placed side by side — pea pods (anag) (7) Performer's nervousness (5,6) Parvenu (7) Powered vehicle of stone bound to lose its rear (3,3) Poet has no right to internalise American apprehension (8) Pit workers abandoned short race? (9) Pointed window essential in theatre (6) Pretentious school clothing's in the van (6) Pure description of one recovered from measles (8) Pleasant neckwear will reveal refinements (8) Proportion (5) Perish (3) Place inside Pop group who starred in the films A Hard Day's Night and Help! Peter —, Scottish painter whose works include White Canoe and Orange Sunshine Person skilled in the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu Put up with capless pen after most of tea was gobbled Previously used in poetry Produced edam variety Part of the nameless protective coat Pure description of one recovered from measles (8) Pleasant neckwear will reveal refinements (8) Proportion (5) Perish (3) Punctuation mark Privy to Patricia —, Best Actress Oscar-winner for Hud Piedmont town famous for its sparkling wine Provide rickety crate Permit to hire Playing card Part of a week Pays attention Projecting strip of stage (5) Pale brown earthy pigment (5) Pure description of one recovered from measles (8) Pleasant neckwear will reveal refinements (8) Proportion (5) Perish (3) Partial or total darkness Percy —, Australian pianist and composer who died in 1961 Part of the Near East Princess sheltered by guardian angel Powerful? Very! Pious Ed, strangely complex character Permission to depart Principle unaffected by revolution PM about to persist in being workshy, say (9) Point won, having received ball supply (5) Poetically add venom to poems no one trashed (8) Provide more gear as compensation (7) Public pool (4) Pierce with horns (4) Precipitation (3) Purchase (3) Postal system Pulls Americans Possibly powerful with one friend Perhaps in the future Part of a carpentry joint Piece of furniture for surgeon's assistant Put up beams, by the sound of it Proverb about ending in jail for murder Protective panel behind sink or cooker (10) Paving stone — mend shoes (6) Piano (rhyming slang) (6) Playing duo that is in a way most unpleasant (7) Petition befitting love, bearing ring (6,2) Pointing right back? Rubbish! (3) Public outburst (6) Pinch (3) Punctuation mark (5) Plaything (3) Plate shaped like part of flower Pets turn out to be vermin Paying passenger Panegyric (6) Public road (12) Pottery ovens (5) Poet, for example, among fifth-rate celebrities (7) Public vase missing from 13 (5) Part of a car's water system? (7) Pill (6) Plume (7) Place where vehicles are cleaned Pen name of essayist Charles Lamb Parts for confused loser Peer at real form Posts Pleased Public school Passenger ship Period regularly covering individual's recollections, primarily in this? (5) Pulled one out of weird crash (4) Precious little company inside for the prematurely forward (10) Party drink (5) Previous (5) Parlance (5) Pupil’s item Protect Pasta in the form of narrow tubes Period of continuous play in the game of polo Pull Principle Part of corset replaced Painful facial lump or blister (4,4) Place's rising (anag) — Australian town (5,7) Penny ___ (1967 Beatles song) (4) Put out and mostly worried about bloke (7) Practise putting on a glove? (3,4,4,2) Possibly agree ten hasn't yet made a score (8) Person from Denmark (4) Place of safety (5) Put on (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Power (5) Perennial plant Paul —, Swiss artist whose works include 1928's Cat and Bird Port and former capital of Nigeria on the Bight of Benin Powerful tenor voice with a dramatic quality suited to heroic roles in opera Poorly behind small ledge Pips ran out of food Plead to exchange bicycle part Purpose (6) Practise putting on a glove? (3,4,4,2) Possibly agree ten hasn't yet made a score (8) Person from Denmark (4) Place of safety (5) Put on (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Power (5) Premature Paradise Player’s first game Plant whose leafstalks are cooked, sweetened and eaten as a dessert Portable mechanical musical instrument widely used in the Middle Ages Produce small piece Primate in tapestry Proverbially busy flier Part of the Far East Plural of is Pebble Pry Practise putting on a glove? (3,4,4,2) Possibly agree ten hasn't yet made a score (8) Person from Denmark (4) Place of safety (5) Put on (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Power (5) Provocation People’s event Posterior Political group not completely unknown Pressure on one copying exam questions (5) Perhaps Vietnamese food at the back (3,7) Put another appendix on, but not wholesale (6) Pretentious fellow in a higher position to begin with (7) Prisoner's room (4) Predatory feline mammal (4) Plain-spoken (6) Portly (5) Potato (4) Policeman, slang (3) Poke (4) Pig’s nose Plain-spoken Particles thrown at a wedding Paris underground Prisoner gets nurse to compete Poet has English goatee, say Period of time Payment Poets start to drink in pubs Put back material that's extracted from the earth Play boisterously in maelstrom perhaps Part of meal: English course's not first class (6) Put right in print; did press at first? (6,3) Private planes not primarily for flying (8) Pass with extra study (8) Pierce upwards with hole in squash bottle (8) Point of a pen (3) Pig pen (3) Perform on stage (3) Person at a funeral Pale purple colour Pact or agreement Planet’s path Peer in real trouble Possibly dream of bearing weapons Pale sort of ring Pause Prophet Portal Pitcher Provided glass on a mobile (2,4,2) Pitch spread in piles (5) Pound back on hot dog (5) Patient attendants who treat only employees? (5,6) People count on them to send them to sleep (5) Possibly gifted young scholars may be told not to! (6) Permits, tolerates (7) Phase (5) Pungent (5) Push gently (5) Public school Punctuation mark Pig’s foot Piece of furniture Prise Post Poem about fool in Black Sea port Police capturing leader in rebellious group of soldiers Pina colada ingredient (7) Prayer about body half lost in heaven? (5) People in North America (6/4, essentially) (5) Praise returned two-fold (4) Purchaser (5) Poison (7) Puddle (4) Pencil rubber (6) Plunder (7) Planet (5) Punctuation mark (5) Police photo (3,4) Place where trees grow Protection on fences or walls Person’s private book Port on Osaka Bay, Honshu, Japan Professor Package Provoke deity enclosing area Petite and cute (5) Plug and admire new interactive information system (10) Pronoun the writer felt out of place, penning start of sonnet (6) Pleased to be lucky (5) Possibly I retain indolence (7) Part of the tide of lawlessness? (5,4) Pieces (4) Precipitation (5) Paces (5) Passionate enthusiasm (7) Plant part Permission to proceed Primitive, uncivilised Pat —, jockey who rode Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame Possibly airs garment Print Pry Provide only a buggy? Pleased to be lucky (5) Possibly I retain indolence (7) Part of the tide of lawlessness? (5,4) Pieces (4) Precipitation (5) Paces (5) Passionate enthusiasm (7) Prevalent Pertinent Pen name of H H Munro, author of 1914 short story collection Beasts and Super-Beasts Port in Odisha, India, on the Bay of Bengal housing the Jagannath Temple Pam struggled in the current Previous cleric Painting of them Urals Pals out of range Pull Pen fluid Pastry item Powerful Plural of is Part of ship seen in part of London Play with sword in castle Pampered after Molly cooked eggs Problem (5) Plant of the mallow family (4) Pleased to be lucky (5) Possibly I retain indolence (7) Part of the tide of lawlessness? (5,4) Pieces (4) Precipitation (5) Paces (5) Passionate enthusiasm (7) Play on words Percussion instrument made from a hollow gourd commonly used in Latin American music Proverbially busy flier Pledge out of loathing Picture one prisoner Pastime Paid to repair a red sail Place of abysmal misery (8) Prey (6) Psychoanalyst's part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience (8) Peak current setter goes after (4) Plot set up that supports sleepers? (8) Promote happy class (7) Pretend to have arrangement that accommodates song (4,3) Pressure to remove last horse from moorland (4) Poor medium I left without difficulty (6) Possibly pray after the treatment (7) Portent (4) Presses (5) Purchase (3) Pelvis (3) Privy to (2,2) Protection against hot weather Picnic basket Pamphlet Pugilist Peck on the cheek Port in Finistere, France; a major naval station of the country Poster sent at fast rate Piece of material Piece at end of music (4) Preserve by cooling rapidly and then putting in a vacuum (6-3) Predatory fish with a projecting lower jaw and long teeth (9) Paper hanky Point to new prime kingdom Paying passenger People going under — not completely different Puzzle resolved in game Presents what players of a certain game finally have (5,3) Provide medical attention for a special occasion (5) Pinch (3) Pen fluid (3) Perfect happiness (5) Public speaker (6) Piece of food deep-fried in batter Person used in experiments Play for time Piece of music composed for a group of nine instruments or singers Point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake Plant of the buttercup family such as the Eurasian —, also called herb Christopher Phase pets out Pushy people get publicity Presenter shot off Point itch out in principle Playing cards Promotion Place of worship People from Japan, say Pulsate (5) Put aside (6) Pamper (11) Pounds a bit short, saving one in case for a significant event (9) Python finally slithering by fence (6) Presumably this tradesman is not particular! (7,6) Pinch Pace Port in Russia on the Kama River known as Molotov from 1940-62 Point a set out Plural of is Particle Pulpits dismantled and taken to pieces Padding over where arm's held close to body (10) Produces something imaginative and prepares to go on the stage (5,2) Pay to become a colonist (6) Possesses (3) Prolonged applause Pen-name of Marie Louise Rame, author of 1867 novel Under Two Flags Piece of security Pair Poison? Sound the alarm Produces something imaginative and prepares to go on the stage (5,2) Pay to become a colonist (6) Possesses (3) Paint-mixing board Period of enforced isolation Proportions surrounding fish Pleased with relaxation Permit Pronoun Player invited to compete, though not formally qualifying (4,4) Posh hotel (4) Perfect example (8) Produces something imaginative and prepares to go on the stage (5,2) Pay to become a colonist (6) Possesses (3) Party drink Paul —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur Pets turn out to be vermin Pal Postpone Police department that investigates financial malpractice (5,5) Pre-decimal British coin, 40 to the pound (8) Portable light in a transparent case (7) Pleasure seeker wandering into shed (8) Prize rams in new enterprises (5-3) Perhaps Galileo's maestro or Newton, possibly (10) Political activist is able very shortly to take in fool (9) Prosaic man-in-the-street (10) Plants for sycophants (8) Pretend to sing (4) Pitch (3) Painful (4) Particle of snow Paul Desmond jazz composition recorded by The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1959 Picture one prisoner Postage payment indicator Pile Professor Pest missing when copper is introduced Painful setting for a hundred and twenty Part with a message in English river Priest playing in band Put the phone down (4,3) Port city on the Garonne in south-west France, a major wine capital (8) Put your foot down here when you want to stop (5,5) Place for shooting practice (5,5) Psychological problem that could make us nosier (8) Place reportedly something worth looking at (5) Partitioned gym's set up over gallery (7) Peculiar behaviour (9) Person's residence, slang (3) Pest (8) Push lightly Podium Piece of music composed for seven singers Pass out of recollection Peruse Paradise Painful Precious Prize Photographs stolen in seconds (5) Pick up metal for a bargain (5) Prizefighter is sure rib is cracked (7) Put off from wide terraces (5) Presumably one has an obligation to pay it (4) Pariah puts actors on strike? (7) Philatelic item begins a panic (8) Pales in fall from innocence (5) Perch (5) Prison (4) Proverb (5) Perceives sound (5) Period of 60 minutes Pleased with relaxation Perform in Clacton Pasta turned out of dishes Passenger gets caught in disaster Phase pets out Pale sort of spring Prevalent Pond-dweller Precious metal Part of the eye may be near it Prince seen in French city after church Postpone it: the holiday has finished (5,4) Place to dine (10) Pimple (4) Prophet (4) Potter’s oven Precious metalworker Plant is put back in store Policeman finally brought in to break up quarrel Pal, say, about to move Poles in play with Greek character Parisian hat (7) Plan of action (8) Poetry virtually set in concrete — a change for the worse (8) Press underfoot (5,2) Pedantic objections (8) Pretend not to care about stage work that's pretty incomprehensible (4,4,2,3) Persecuted fellows caught in legal wrongs by editor (9) Place inside (6) Playground items (6) Pallid (5) Playhouse (7) Pith helmet Plant of Europe and Asia also called lucerne Paul Gustave —, 19th-century French illustrator of works by Rabelais P C R —, England Test cricketer who took 7-66 against Australia at the Oval in 1997 Personification of the government of the United States Perils Proposal (5) Plastic cup (6) Pleasant prospect (5) Persecuted fellows caught in legal wrongs by editor (9) Place inside (6) Playground items (6) Pallid (5) Playhouse (7) Patella Plunders Paolo —, Italian composer and singing master to the British Royal Family knighted in 1908 Poets cooking sauce Peels juicy snacks loudly Pains Poem Play sections Pick a dairy product Proceed with difficulty, having wilted Person found down under bird Persecuted fellows caught in legal wrongs by editor (9) Place inside (6) Playground items (6) Pallid (5) Playhouse (7) Port in Victoria, Australia, on Corio Bay Purple-flowered plant whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking Prunes have to manage Pier design, new and mature Precipitation Prima donna Part of Scandinavia grateful for potent drug Provider more flexible about one Place to sit, right until now Popular music that came from New Orleans in the 1900s (4) Putsch (4) Prominent member of the Johnson family (5) Planet has room for a boy (8) Primarily all brave actors performing (8) Purchaser (5) Planet (7) Paris underground (5) Photographer (7) Post off (5) Pistachio, for example (3) Position of the controls of a gearbox that leaves the transmission disengaged Pacify phone widget with simplicity Portable steps Part of nose required for game Possibly go over a furrow (6) Planet's path (5) Popular pet (3) Planet (6) Party, slang (5) Primary source (6) Pleasure craft Pat —, 1987 Wimbledon men's singles tennis champion Present in the recording Pledged to have a shelf Precise pressure on lip Paradise Phobia Proper Pharmacist beginning to tire after endless shift Put right about clothing Parental involvement before birth Peppery leafed vegetable used in salads (6) Plays with old money children dropped (6) Pentecost (7) Peer at actor, desperately holding teacher back (10) Politician surrounded by eleven warriors (4) Presumably, you're willing to put up with one! (8) Piece on board rejected by the French (6) Pointed beard (6) Picture house (6) Polite, respectable (6) Place of safety (5) Perpetuity Place where beer is made Prohibition Pressure on furious buccaneer Pick-me-up Pulled Politically diverse assembly in no-win situation, liable to fall apart (6) Put hands out for old port (4) Political allies upset about party? That's a puzzle (6) Paris is associated with this kind of weight (4) Provide suitable notes for the text (3,2,5) Provoke to fury (6) Plump (6) Produce eggs (3) Perceive by touching (4) Play on words (3) Provide food (5) Plenty (4) Pokes Planetoids Pitch Playing cards Particular mixture of spice and ale (8) Pleasure craft (6) Plant type (4) Pig pen (3) Pattern on a zebra Plant with greenish-white flowers cultivated for its edible rounded bulb Prison also has outlaw Points after trend loses colour Perilous (5) Poetic curse (anag) — pro-Brexit? (11) Piano track without least jazzy old instrument (8) Perhaps Bordeaux's Number 6 goes up front (4) Paths through wild or hilly country (6) Particular mixture of spice and ale (8) Pleasure craft (6) Plant type (4) Pig pen (3) Partly cook by simmering Puerile Perceive sounds Perambulator Points ruse out to make certain Pleased with simplicity Perform in Clacton Plant rice over area Pieces of English duets performed Period of pageantry Punch Plural of is Poem Payment Plant ovule Public speaker Purdy is forced to stop talking Particular mixture of spice and ale (8) Pleasure craft (6) Plant type (4) Pig pen (3) Prescribed clothing Part of a whole Process of printing fabric in which parts not to be dyed are covered by wax Pay to get comfortable Principal design for plates Presently Precipitous Parasites giving signs of approval Pun (4,2,5) Picture-based puzzle (5) Poem with only two rhymes throughout (7) Perhaps a place in hotel raised charge to stay (7) Pass our flag (6) Paper cash exchanged for pile of junk (5,4) Punctuation mark at end of invitation to party for soldier (8) President with certain force (8) Picture of old king wearing hat (8) Praise song and dance on allotment (9) Permission to depart (5) Prevent fraternisation with eastern alien (8) Previous (5) Plaything (3) Pelvis (3) Plough (4) Pass a disease to Preface Pardon Perfume Pinch pin back Parking on overly new floating walkway Poster Pull Possess Porter's regulation salad Paddy has so much French spirit Poor Tom is a bit wet Private retreat to go to when wanting to get away from others (4) Progressing sequentially (6) Plant-based hair dye (5) Place occupied by Prince Charming is not around No. 10 (8) Pleasure cracking open wines with money back (7) Please slip by (6) Place most of 3 go round (3) Postpone (5) Prize (5) Period of 24 hours (3) Particular administration Possesses Paused Poem People with this complaint may easily be spotted Praise a sort of latex Person with all the answers? (6) Pulls in stomach muscles following end of liposuction (4) Private home page (6) Pakistani city (6) Primate (3) Percussion instrument Pig sound Predominant sea Panes broken at ski resort Passenger ship Principal Poplar Psychoanalyst expected back on Friday Put in new resident Profligate (11) Pass (6) Performing with itself? (6) Prophetic recent letters dispatched from nuclear reactor meltdown (8) Provide support for a foreigner reported to be drunk (12) Party is a natural disaster (10) Public transport is endlessly active (3) Properly adjust a file, we hear (5) Paint-mixing board (7) Paces (5) Port in E China; largest city in the country Predatory tropical marine fish with strong teeth and a protruding lower jaw Python in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book Punter’s headgear Pressure to get a French joke Perform Pry Part Play on words Pattern initially seen in Indian fabric Poor side sure to be put out again Psychic in fear entering water off Marseille? (4-6) People in competition? (5) Pulsates (6) Policeman, slang (3) People in charge Protein found in cereal grain Plant type Pair of glasses without arms held in place by a clip that fits over the nose Project Permissive Peruse Portable meal Passe Protagonist hides somewhere in New Zealand Police officers fill their bellies and throw up Programme of entertainment (4) Piece of paper Plural of is Pronoun Platform Pakistan Test cricketer who hit 115 against South Africa at Rawalpindi in 1997 People in competition? (5) Pulsates (6) Policeman, slang (3) Personal belongings Prison Provide different crate Prevent notes upsetting liar Part of the Near East Prisoner opening religious community Pass on (task etc) to somebody junior (8) Petty quarrel (4) People in competition? (5) Pulsates (6) Policeman, slang (3) Paper quantity Public square or marketplace in an ancient Roman city where business was conducted and law courts were situated Prime minister of France from 1997-2002 Possibly resign as a musician Promise to put pressure on sill Pets turn out to be vermin Payment Pour hot fat over shivering beast Penperson (6) Protecting the earth, driver perhaps in leafy area (9) Plant name one needs to change (7) Projecting edge (4) Personnel (5) Press clothes (4) Pain around slope Perspiration Performance Playing card Pointed hand tool Parts of a fish used for balance Privileged group (5) Princess who helped Jason get the Golden Fleece from her father (5) Putting on hold (10) Place to put stiff and heavy book, not English book (4) Plane detailed to carry peacekeepers for a month (4) Pleased oil's produced with island flowers (8) Pester doctor in case (6) Persevere in rejecting denial after horse involved in suspicious result (8,2) Provide food for tourist, endlessly hot after noon (7) Pole on the run (5) Partake of food (3) Pungent (5) Pants (5) Protestor Precipitous Pimento Platform for actors Pin-up I do love, endlessly Point to the Spanish swimmer Particle Post Paradise Put on the ground, perhaps, as specified Partly eaten chips or fish Prisoner made to pay penalty in prison? Poker hand Pleasant smell Possesses Play by Aristophanes featuring the character Socrates Permit to hire Plead for three keys Pale sort of request Poems Pause Peered at (anag) — again and again (8) President not supplied with right wine (5) Protected customers sounded off endlessly about goods? Quite the opposite! (10) Perform, as if in a play (5) Precept (5) Put a leper through treatment that's going on for ever (9) Pathogen that turns up regularly in gill pouches (1,4) Pet is displaying ill will Picture one game differently Phase pets out Part of the face Promote Pessimist Percussion instruments Put back some odd books Pull up by church in ravine Prosecute Penury (4) Percussionist's effect is diverting, full of spirit (4,4) Post a second notice (6) Proves false and won't take son out for tea, we're told (7) Passes England's opener, run out close to stumps (7) Patchy skin condition spreading into leg (7) Poisonous gas discharged with a certain amount of current power (8) Pass around a mineral (4) Produces a little friction with light results (7,1,5) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pagan (7) Prepares to pray (6) Precipitation from clouds Petty quarrels Promptly Pimple Pauline —, US film critic whose volumes include Going Steady Pest also called a snout beetle that damages crops Pasta turned out to be fare from another country Present during the recording Practise boxing Pragmatist Possibly battered fish gets consumed inside Preserve part of a castle Provoke (4,2) Place to rent a cheap bed for the night (informal) (9) Poisonous gas discharged with a certain amount of current power (8) Pass around a mineral (4) Produces a little friction with light results (7,1,5) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pagan (7) Prepares to pray (6) Portable anti-tank gun Physically strong and healthy Performs part of the Bible Perfume Permit Pets made mess in wild rush Piece of paper containing these letters Part of cargo, natural gas Poisonous, noxious (5) Passageway (8) Propriety, etiquette (7) Passive, static (5) Practise boxing (4) Poisonous gas discharged with a certain amount of current power (8) Pass around a mineral (4) Produces a little friction with light results (7,1,5) Putrefy, spoil (2,3) Pagan (7) Prepares to pray (6) Photographer Pick-me-up Preston —, director of the film comedies Unfaithfully Yours and The Lady Eve Peninsula that comprises the Asian part of Turkey Press club Pierce Possess Pudding ingredient Part of Italian designer's range Preferred a thing from Paris (5) Prison block needing the ultimate in security (6) Polish again getting snub? (6) Photographer's device (6) Peruse writing (4) Pachyderm (8) Plaything (3) Petty lie (3) Petty gangster Plus Pacific island whose capital is Hagatna Pressure to get a French joke Pastry item Piece of corn Previous day Play on words Pack some garments to wear Plead with English knight to get something nice Put on a golden coat (4) Plonker gets winter sports gear back to front? No, other way round (4) Possibly yielding to a sincere rancher (10) Pots (as we might put it) are something useful in baseball (8) Primate's boob (6) Part of a capital place for worship (6) Pencil often seen on old grates (9) Painful (4) Pinafore (5) Prison (4) Particle of matter (4) Purchase (3) Persons collectively Poker stake Prompt President of Turkey from 1923-38 Prunella —, actress who played Miranda Thorpe in ITV sitcom Constant Hot Water Plucky, having fortune Press club Priest upset band Powerful Probabilities Patron saint has doctor brought in again Plant-like organism which thrives on rocks, walls and trees (6) Platform Four's last at Old Street — strange (7) Problems with boss — hard ones to describe (9) Pride march finally banned influential film director (6) Points in support of Bill Gates (8) Prose composition (5) Prepared (5) Prosecutes (4) Pulped fruit or veg Place Prize Play-act Principle of reversibility? Part of the Near East Plane forced to land Peaked headwear Potato, informally Precious metal Prison room Prohibited (5) Pure underwear, half with skirts off (6) Position to be reached before seeing eye to eye? (4,2,4) Postpone (5) Plant (4) Pierce with horns (4) Puts up with (6) Puzzle-solving aid Port on the Gulf of Bothnia; provisional capital of Finland in 1918 Procure from strange tradesman Pets turn out to be vermin Paint hide material Playing in duet, no longer having strings attached? Promise made by page left on margin President entertaining his country with insulting language Partly run down when free of restraint (4) Partly sacred land (4) Pleasant French resort (4) Pigmeat (5) Pith helmet (4) Port on San Francisco Bay, California, damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Paavo —, 1920 and 1928 Olympic 10,000m gold medallist Pledged to get a shelf Prohibition includes English food Precipitation Pulse Policeman holding hot piece of meat Place often visited by hot family member Prized (6) Proposition assumed to be self-evident (5) Plaster for walls made from Portland cement, sand and lime (6) Put up with (8) Possibility, over time, for job in theatre (9) Partly run down when free of restraint (4) Partly sacred land (4) Pleasant French resort (4) Pigmeat (5) Pith helmet (4) People deciding a court case Paul —, 1993 World Championships 800m gold medallist Perch-shaped fish of a dark olive green colour Province of SE Pakistan whose capital is Karachi Push trainee towards implement Perform in Clacton Purpose of camping? Primate in tapestry Plank Poem Popular ballad singer Public bar (7) Partly run down when free of restraint (4) Partly sacred land (4) Pleasant French resort (4) Pigmeat (5) Pith helmet (4) Paid player Painful Penalty imposed for an offence Personnel Prunes have to manage Pace rated incorrectly Puzzle about transport Pears used as a weapon Peaceful Plant ovule Public college Poet Part of the heart — clever nit (anag) (9) Provided the funds for (8) Pay special attention — be on 19 (anag) (4,4) Policy declaration that must be obeyed (6) Put away 1000 1000 1000 1 times 500 takes energy? (9) Pink wine went up in price (4) Part, we're told, publicised in unveiling of a product, say (7) Part of village overlooks hotel on river, somewhere plants grow (10) Posh car turning up in kingdom, illegally (4) Prayer ending (4) Patty —, Swiss tennis player; 2004 Australian Open singles championship semi-finalist Prime minister of Great Britain from 1766-68 Please move and go by Propose at home to nurse Pinch pin back Profit with right tiny amount Partner’s painting Pass (of time) Peculiar Pawns and rooks Pitch Puts to use one in fruit (7) Principal (4) Post off (5) Pace (4) Previously owned or used Philippine plant related to the banana whose leafstalks are the source of Manila hemp Public school Payment Precious Princess featuring in American newspapers Picture, say, French friend stuck up Paradoxically they could be evens Person standing for office (9) Person looking for something (6) Purpose (9) PM following Churchill on his retirement (4) PM remains, about to resign (7) Pasternak novel (6,7) Penguin, say, right behind blue ship at sea (9) Proverbial drinker with yen for rum (5) Pictures sunbeams on wine (8) Presumably they pick up the sound of the harvester (4) Perfect (5) Picture within another (5) Prima donna (4) Pose a question (3) Prince of Aragon in the William Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing Perform in Clacton Plead to swap bicycle part Positive Posterior Plunder Pulls Priestley's 1945 play about such a person who calls (9) Pull out (3,3) Proved to be wrong (7) Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four 'Rabbit' novels, d. 2009 (6) Publicity one found in bank right away (7) Pardon me being outrageous boast (8) Poor child's letter from abroad found in container (6) Performs acrobatically, but comes to grief (7) Prolonged applause (7) Piano keys (7) Protect, maintain Pegboard game Period of darkness P —, England Test cricketer who took 6-38 against Australia at Melbourne in 1975 Port in Mozambique on the Pungwe River estuary Pledged to get shelf Particle Pry Professor Possessor Plant trees, by the sound it Part of Missouri sent up Peer of the realm (5) Play well, trapping Middlesex's opener before tea, say (6) Put on a dressing - what's damaged the editor? (7) Plot is changed by Shakespearian character (6) Prise (5) Pencil rubber (6) Proportion (5) Port in Shandong, NE China, on the Yellow Sea Present during the recording Points river out, less relaxed Part of leg points and glistens Previous day Primarily horticultural border? Particular esteem Players crossing line move cautiously Page penned by French author in college grounds Plant in the shade Pet animal (informal) (8) Princess Royal (4) Person from Paisley, say (4) Put on a dressing - what's damaged the editor? (7) Plot is changed by Shakespearian character (6) Prise (5) Pencil rubber (6) Proportion (5) Performed on stage Pale greenish-blue transparent variety of beryl used as a gemstone Portion of small animal Part of meal on salver, say Pleased with contract Pleased with relaxation Policeman Pronoun Plural of is Perspiration Proverbs Playing cards Proverb about time not slipping away Passed open ring all right Poignant, moving (9) Pretend not to notice (4,1,5,3) Poetic term for prayer (6) Peaceful demonstration (3-2) Put on a dressing - what's damaged the editor? (7) Plot is changed by Shakespearian character (6) Prise (5) Pencil rubber (6) Proportion (5) Poem by Allen Ginsberg first performed in 1955 Pyramidal coniferous tree Part of the play? Play dishonestly Pebble Police officer brought in pink drink Penmanship (7) Puzzle out (5) Press for admission to surgery (4) Pass bottom of slope and slip (6) Pouches in which commandos keep cape (4) Pays off rent when told to ask nicely (3,6) Pretentious girl going after young man (2-2-2) Petty lies (4) Pacific, for example (5) Pardon, forgive Percussion instrument Pale yellow spring flower Paddy —, leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988-99 Period of the geologic timescale once also known as the Cryptozoic eon Port and former capital of Nigeria on the Bight of Benin Plead for three keys Perceive a number cheer Prunes have to manage Pinch sodium and boron Phobia Peculiar Plural of is Principal metal Provided with weapons (5) Pretend to be ill (8) Periodical suffering, lumbago's back! (5) Papers about musician, say, releasing tango for recorder (7) Pick-me-up (5) Planet (5) Puma Pilotless radio-controlled aircraft Purchaser Phase Prevailing cultural trend Plant whose leafstalks are cooked, sweetened and eaten as a dessert Public protest Poor stiff at university Protestant reformer reported strikes Perhaps retreat in blunder, losing knight and corps entirely (5,4) Parts listed discovered for singer, perhaps (7) Prickly character criticised nationalist answer on energy (7) Pull together in Cuppers, otherwise one is sunk (6,2) Play some instruments (5) Pen has the French way of writing (5) Ponders about how to react (7) Pole suffering from ill-health taking a voyage (7) Producing some scaffolding (7) Pace (4) Paradise (4) Performs (4) Pull with a rope (3) People who tend sheep Pair of close vertical lines indicating the end of a section of music Pen new melody for deity Phase pets out Put up with having left one Dutch export Planet Pitcher Passage from Elia's novel Pal emptied pockets for fools Piece of furniture that's chosen by PM Price list (6) Plumed army cap (5) Preliminary round in a contest (4) Presumably Adam had one in his throat (5) Prohibition, thanks to derisive cry (5) Popular fellow gave ring to girl (4) Pitch (3) Prison room (4) Prod (4) Perish (3) Plastic bullet Player’s first game Peter —, actor who played Chris Tate in ITV soap Emmerdale from 1989-2003 Previously used in poetry Powder around stud Prohibit Pitch Painful Passage about a former coin Porridge ingredient Prosecute Ponder Perennial plant Port in Minnesota, US, at the west end of Lake Superior Present in the recording Prophet Playing card People dressed for riding? Poke with end of sharp stick Pacific country of islands that spread north and south of the equator and east and west of the 180th meridian (8) Performers twisting end of musical (4) Performers changing can't be arsed going over lines (6,7) Places to meet and study before classes (10) Panic as hairstyle has length cut off (8) Pare (wood) with a knife (7) Projecting part of a fortification (7) Predicament, plight Put money away Perfectly Pimple Peter —, British crime writer whose Lemmy Caution novels include This Man is Dangerous and Poison Ivy Paul —, Swiss artist whose works include 1928's Cat and Bird Permit everything to old wife Professor Pronoun Possess Prise Person in family tree can store nuts Painter upsetting one young man Purchased branch on top of tree Police in small wood appearing endlessly Poultry found initially by bird of prey Pitcher, flask (6) Pallid. lacking in colour (7) Perfect Pig pen Port in Russia on the Kama River known as Molotov from 1940-62 Priest upset band Pleased with relaxation Push student to get spade Performed Pit filled with cold meat Popular song about king Political group crossing line? Not entirely Picnic for Americans with meat served in baked dough (8) Present a plant (5) Parent dancing by river shows charm (9) Performance with ball introduced by Carol (4,3,5) Prepared to cross Italy and Greece initially, but strayed (9) Present from the Queen (5) Produces a report and presents a bill (5,2,7) Picture puzzle (5) Prisons (5) Planet (7) Plays for time Pitiless, relentless Produce island broadcast Part of a play? Previous day Post-nuptial break (9) Predicament — golfer's target (4) Prosperity (9) Poet dropping right in (4) Perhaps roofer's chicken after heading to tower (8) Pole position or third, thereabouts (5) Press into service in City (8) Put a hole in the plank, by the sound of it (5) Presumably it's not even a curio! (6) Plunder (6) Prime minister Principal bullfighter Pink wading bird Premature Plant of North America and eastern Asia whose root is believed to have stimulant properties Party animal Peruse Prose narrative Painful affliction Part of aircraft also involved motion Part of forgotten thespian Poet confused about free stone Put to the courting test, perhaps (5) Permit (3) Portent (4) Perfect society Put up Passage of goods or people Professional boxer Prima donna Plucky, having fortune Principal-sounding state Precious metal Professor Probabilities Put on Medusa's snakes Predatory kind of dolphin (7) Practical joker (9) Puckered (6) Pouch on a belt (6) Pawnbrokers? (6) Poet joins volunteers providing cover for knight (6) Possible need for invalid inferior writer switching contents (6) Pitch checker's routine nap disturbed (5,5) Possibly went in the pond (4) Part of the choir is heard in Eire (5) Prima donna (4) Paradise (4) People on buses Pious Plums’ unusual swellings Partner’s painting Possibly arming at the border Part of window can be a nuisance, we hear Protuberances People to be boycotted Powerful Pig fodder Persistent girl after all others in band Proper ceremony? That's what we hear Part of India like South America? Person, like Ebenezer Scrooge, with no time for humankind — North Sea imp (anag) (11) Plaything (3) People on trains (10) Pen fluid (3) Particle of matter (4) Praise, glorify Paper size Paved area Part of Far East Point rose out that’s deteriorated Pale sort of ring Perceptive Particulars Period of time Proper (5) Part of speech (4) Plaything (3) People on trains (10) Pen fluid (3) Particle of matter (4) Precious metal Planet Prior to Produce Peter —, English golfer; 1971-74 Order of Merit winner Peter —, actor who played Paul Ryman in BBC TV sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles Pass out of recollection Permission to go Primate in tapestry Principles Place of worship Paradise Prize taken from astrophysicist Planet near the centre Particular, exceptional (7) Paid assassin (6) Professional cook (4) Plaything (3) People on trains (10) Pen fluid (3) Particle of matter (4) Proof of absence from a crime scene Pantry Pitch Process of learning Paul —, English golfer who won the 1987 Panasonic European Open Punishment causes acne to break out Please move and pass Post Pastry item Pass by Print a novel? Not entirely Pointed writer (6) People with such a depression may still look happy (6) Puts up secret amendments (6) Possibly tore in from the East (6) Practise boxing (4) Precipitation (3) Planet (6) Peepers (4) Poison Protect Private feud Plant of North America, Europe and Africa with large spikes of brightly coloured flowers Possibly arming border Pam struggled in some current Policeman Permit Professional salespeople brought up to do well Pig's ear — a dreadful mess (informal) (4,9) Pork and beef sausage (9) Piece of confidential information (3-3) Patronise lecture by Spooner's municipal party? (4,4,2) Pudding seems not to be cooked (4,4) Physical border, which the sun doesn't cross (3,4) Prove setter perhaps can be best in class, eventually (4,3) Prudent having American medical facility in food processing plant (7) Proceed to a port in India (3) Play for the village (6) Place in a grave position (6) Pull with a rope (3) Pigmeat (3) Play on words Playing card also called a jack Port in SW Scotland housing the Wallace Tower Point to the Spanish swimmer Prohibit British article Performs part of the Bible Pledged to have shelf Paying passenger Person thought to know a lot about a lot (6) Position taken (6) Part of plant, one more deficient in oxygen (6) Pure daughter leaving disco, it's said (9) Person's private book (5) Prose composition (5) Plant (4) Prepare land to grow plants Piece of portable luggage Personal charge introduced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in 1798 to help finance war against France Pike thrown into head wear Phase pets out Phones and visits Peaked cap Post Particle Principality on the Riviera with a Formula One Grand Prix (6) Plod — down-and-out (5) Poorly adjusted person (6) Percent lost came to be worked out in insurer's estimate (11,4) Putting a coat on, eg never shivering outside home (9) Person with needle and cotton maybe securing a thread? (7) Pull up and fill up (4) Primary source (6) Plane journey Push Pricey Port and resort in Ukraine on the Black Sea Padre destroyed curtain Promotional words (5) Professional association has a thing for cowboys (5) Protective clothing for the big white chief? (7) Paper handkerchief (6) Planet (4) Prune or clip (4) Pallid (5) Petty quarrel Pleasantly flavoured Pain of bachelordom Pure flow turned out to be strong Poles like following King Arthur's first state PM's predecessor said to be lacking principles Part from a Jordanian officer Popular battered food (piscine digit?) (4,6) Person lacking resolution (4) Proverbially still water (8) Putrid (4) Protective clothing for the big white chief? (7) Paper handkerchief (6) Planet (4) Prune or clip (4) Pallid (5) Pub doorman Partner’s painting Part of the Near East Point a set out Pay for sending a note Phonetic O Pick-me-up Ponders Piece of corn Put off baby's toy Plates. dishes, cups etc. (8) Pollute (5) Partiality (4) Protective clothing for the big white chief? (7) Paper handkerchief (6) Planet (4) Prune or clip (4) Pallid (5) Pirate Plant part Pale sort of request Plate shaped like flower part Pleasant having European relative Portal Piece of blossom Pleased with smoke finally clearing Praise (7) Praise the guts of fiery boxer, beating stout fellows (5) Plant cutter of great power? (5) Plant housed in another building (4) Perhaps the ploughman expects dividends from them (6) Publicity material for printing operative on strike? (5,7) Prepare to greet day, perhaps (3,5) Put up a number on hospital section to get fishing gear (7) Point-blank colour? (6) Painful (4) Pig-pen (3) Pull out Patella Pseudonym under which writer Brian O'Nolan authored comic novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman Previous clergyman Prunes have to manage Pair of upbeat women Possess Preceding Political head Policeman Pigeon supporter has to follow Partnership lacking say in loyalty (8) Poke a drop-out (4) Person in charge (6) Prophets (5) Possesses (3) Portable two-way radio Philosophy of reasoning Plant of the aster family with yellow button-like flowers Picture one prisoner Put off being freed indefinitely Postpone Precipitous Policy of non-interference (7-5) Passable (12) Portugal and Spain together (6) Person who colours cloth (4) Pie taken from 11 (4) Plunges (5) Push down (7) Plan of travel Purchase Plume Petition heard in quarry Point stew out Performer gets new couch Precious metal Performance Phobia Prose narratives Painful choice of directions? Perfume, we hear, that's dispatched Preoccupied engineer started cab Piles of 6 (5) Particular stage of 19 (5) Place of safety (5) Perform again (4) Picture puzzle (5) Prepared (5) Putrefy Person held captive Provocation Prosecute a woman Pagers used by wine producers Plans poplars so badly Possibly hear wet conditions Person blamed Prevailing conditions Prohibition Pictures came in reels Post office with rear gate Perfumed (8) Preserve body part nursed by sick Parisian (9) Place for refreshment, old and without changes (5) Primitive (4) Party witnessing a document (9) Programme of studies (8) Pseudo switched, heading for interdisciplinary church organisation (4,3) Put up or bring to the ground, one hears (5) Properly assimilate a summarised version (6) Put on and taken for granted (7) Prosecute (3) Person's residence, slang (3) Place in from the margin Pinafore Paradorn —, 2004 Nottingham Open men's singles tennis championship winner Port and largest city in Kansai, Japan Pillow Pastry-covered dessert Pleased Payment Piste (3,3) Put up or bring to the ground, one hears (5) Properly assimilate a summarised version (6) Put on and taken for granted (7) Prosecute (3) Person's residence, slang (3) Puppet worked by strings Pig sound Port in Poland on the Baltic Sea; birthplace of the Solidarity movement Portly old boy firstly fails, see Part of the play? Pronoun Previous day Place Public school Part of Beau Geste emphasising respect Place for storage of French drug Pall, become tiresome (4) Put up or bring to the ground, one hears (5) Properly assimilate a summarised version (6) Put on and taken for granted (7) Prosecute (3) Person's residence, slang (3) Passage in a building or train Partner’s painting Primate gets kiss at the top Present in the recording Part of community Paradise Prima donna Peaceful child initially swathed in patterned cloth Prank (4) Penned order for silence (4,2) Popular Star Wars character, unwelcome visitor (7) Perhaps Belgian name given to everyone in court (7) Poet's idle ways corrected (3,5) Penny followed by three bridge players into church seats (4) Principal part of New England, it's said (4) Popular expression around firm for a means of contacting others (8) Put the charm on as neared turn (6) Press (4) Plant (4) Put on (3) Perceive (5) Picture within another Potentially painful growth to irritate Plaything Pastry item Piece of furniture, first in room until now Part of stadium for bear Possibly keen to do this vocally? (5) Past players rather dull? (8) Pass round women's head covering (4) Pass on to posterity that the worker has fallen (4,4) Praised for loss of hope (7) Paper-pale? (5,2,1,5) Presumably the male teacher should have it! (7) Polite, respectable (6) Pinch (3) Post (4) Peruse writing Paper handkerchief Place of safety Push lightly Province of the Republic of Ireland that includes the counties of Carlow and Meath Press club Part of a bookcase Poison found in any iced confection Part of Benedictine order Poor migrants feeling sore Printed reading-matter of the permissive age? (11) Pleased to have passed (7) Propensity to steal out to make plain (11) Protective clothing taken from peculiar mourners (6) Protect, guard (6) Plunders (5) Primates (4) Portly (5) Phase (5) Possesses P P —, India Test cricketer who took 6-47 against West Indies at Mumbai in 2011 Plate shaped like flower part Pitch Purifying diet Piece of blossom Passenger ship (5) Place of unrest and potential violence (3,4) Person sharing one's attitudes and values (7,6) Permission to proceed once obstacles have been removed (3-5) Put one's foot down? (4) Posh bloke is a Tory bastard? Not unknown (6) Plant roses at front except in centre (7) Polluted river in which crew's emptied effluents (6) Progress by large jumps (8) Pushes forward (6) Person organising things for others to see (9) Person setting up in coalpit, working with earth in the centre? (9) Princess penning a recipe, which may involve chops (6) Punctuation mark (5) Posy (7) Pleasure, merriment (3) Paris underground (5) Percussion instrument Precipitation form Polite and respectable Peter —, director of the films Fearless and The Truman Show Put inside trendy group Porter confused about old soldier Portents Place within Preserve Pink fuel is about right Prime tree resited on the boundary (9) Polite, courteous (5) Peculiar (7) Permit (3) Piercing tool Peter —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Murder, Inc Paying passenger Playing cards Paper money found in bars? Poet requiring a university study Pile of stones (5) Piercing instrument (6) Poached eggs first, no cereal, the bacon last of all (6) Place on a road for old car (8) Proper to impound a car (4) Principles (6) Preliminary outline (6) Prime tree resited on the boundary (9) Polite, courteous (5) Peculiar (7) Permit (3) Plant related to the onion; a national emblem of Wales Previously used in poetry Purpose of camping? Peers at the other house Politicians have the Spanish to defame Plants making mourning clothes Present during the recording Plural of is Pronoun Protest Painful ulcers Post Play sections Precious metal Pouring fluid for fashionable clique? People who run things possibly ran games Put up this ode in translation Paper runner for holiday property Performances expected by two stars primarily? Power of child picked up by the ears? Preserve for burial (6) Prime tree resited on the boundary (9) Polite, courteous (5) Peculiar (7) Permit (3) Pass down the throat Piece of music composed for eight singers Pleased with simplicity Plundered Toledo, sadly Posterior Punch Probabilities Pal Prose narrative Perspiration Ponder Path commentator's travelled up (4) Part of boot from West? (3) Plants unknown in drained area beside meadows (7) Preacher's spoken, boring Scrooge (9) Power play — it's somewhat obvious! (9) Piece of old film on medical procedure put back in (2-5) Put down again, we hear, to be broadcast (7) Passable theatrical offering attributed to a sportsman (4,4) Private evening party (6) Precipitation (3) Public pool (4) Paris river (5) Perceive sound (4) Pulls with a rope Personal view Pleasure Poisonous plant of the buttercup family with ball-shaped white, pale-yellow or orange flowers Points rate out as less messy Parasite Plant part (4) Power, force Placido —, Spanish tenor and conductor whose New York singing debut was in 1965 Predatory gull-like bird such as the Arctic — Point a set out Principle of reversibility? Paradise Pleasant Pungent Part of a flower enclosing the petals (5) Particular star's upward movement, receiving medal finally (5) Political critic given two British honours by broadcaster (7) Part of Italy, see, getting irritable with invasion of British (8) Prayer for good health, and where to make it? (7,4) Prophet in the limelight (3) Proposition from me to her (7) Pale purple colour (5) Pen fluid (3) Petty lie (3) Perform on stage (3) Pig pen (3) Particle of snow Pencil rubber Platform enclosing the head of each mast of a sailing ship People reverse car with energy Partner’s painting Pals out of range Points to large and small fish Pant Portent Poles are small traps Process that repeats itself (5) Positive motion (3) Police department (3) Provoke (6) Possessive pronoun (5) Pair trained Manx cat, a divine male (7) Prickly complaint from Australian ambassador with rubbish sandwiches (4,4) Public speaker (6) Plunders (7) Pitch (3) Prayer ending Person’s private book Playground item Partial darkness Port and resort in Belgium on the North Sea Plantation in the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind Pause to look at timer Previously used in poetry? Pinch pin back Pale sort of request Praising a loud arty performance Pressure wore out authority Pa learnt to be fatherly Part of dissident team Passive stage of insect raised in Pennsylvania (4) Put up with a sort of baiting (4) Policeman, slang (3) Part of a book cover (7) Pain of bachelorhood Predicament Pleased Prohibit Pal Panicked rush (8) Point on a plant stem from which leaves grow (4) Poorly, cutting last visit as distasteful (9) Pagans adding verse to biblical book (7) Prosecute Picture puzzle Pick up fallen angel? Pride's ruined web designer? Part of joint a music group set up Pre-violin instrument played with a bow (4) Provide — flexibility (4) Plum or cherry? (6) Passive stage of insect raised in Pennsylvania (4) Put up with a sort of baiting (4) Policeman, slang (3) Part of a book cover (7) Portly Perceive sounds Picked scone out with husband Productive bar is back in beer Pronoun Portions of medicine Playing cards Periods for which accommodation is required Prepared to stir old Italian food Pulsate (5) Passive stage of insect raised in Pennsylvania (4) Put up with a sort of baiting (4) Policeman, slang (3) Part of a book cover (7) Population count Painful muscle contraction Punctuation mark Popular pet Pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, French author of novels Armance and The Charterhouse of Parma People's Republic of —, Asian country whose capital is Beijing Potential pile boss constructed Part of a church at right angles to the nave (8) Pleasing adage about female model making a comeback (10) Publicise place in band (6) Period caught in New York office (6) Part of revolutionary rubric is absolutely fundamental (5) Palest variety of crayon (6) Piece of confectionery - the French put in rice mixture (6) Punk hairstyle (7) Porridge ingredient Paul-Henri —, winner of the 2007 Swiss Open singles tennis tournament Province of SE Pakistan whose capital is Karachi Plant in Greek mythology whose fruit induced forgetfulness in those who ate it Potato! Possess Part of a carpentry joint Primate Produce awkward teenager Pole seen after girl quits Pitfalls (5) Pop-up appliance (7) Pioneer — fine art PhD (anag) (10) Poet's lower than 'the man sadly emasculated' (5) Perpetrator of a dark deed (7) Proof (8) Prize Push Port in Puglia, SE Italy, on the Adriatic coast Posterior Profile (5) Part of format the writer used for book (7) Pouring in, in a state of change (6) Private feud (8) Plant part (4) Piece (3) Prophet (4) Paradise Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab Pacific island; capital Hagatna Peter —, Hamburg-born architect of the I G Farben Offices in Frankfurt Pet leaps in wildly Point to the Spanish swimmer Pivot and throw a six Priest upset by elf Praise revolutionary Iran once (6) Philistine's with a drink, exhausted, drained and unreal (8) Political figure, one from 20? (9) Pious (3-7) Pallid (5) Personal pride (3) Putty-like substance Perennial submerged marine plant of the genus Zostera with long narrow green leaves Previous day Pig Paradise Penalised Pilot Piano finale not yet determined Pinch a little drink Possibly I serenade clergymen's homes Person one dances with (7) Plunder (7) Powdered seasoning (7) Pronounces indistinctly (5) Proverb Pigmeat Patrick —, actor who plays Rodney Blackstock in ITV soap Emmerdale Piece of armour used to protect the forearm Perennial plant of the parsley family also called goutweed Prohibition includes English food Pity flu turned out to be embarrassing Present during the recording Peruse Pulse Part of rain forest yielding data Punishment — motive sought? (4,3) Possible tool used by belligerent European city? (6) Person one dances with (7) Plunder (7) Powdered seasoning (7) Pronounces indistinctly (5) Pilot’s compartment Plant part Point out prime realm Pleased with simplicity Prisoner left silver Part of the Far East Pals Put on (clothes) Perspire Precipitous Playing card Playful spirit with a sad plant grown indoors Part of speech one has to repeat Progress (7) Period of keeping awake to watch and/or to pray (5) Providing encouragement (10) Person one dances with (7) Plunder (7) Powdered seasoning (7) Pronounces indistinctly (5) Pimento Put to death without a trial Port in SW Portugal south of Lisbon Proper to put notes with coin Pay to get comfortable Put off animal with time Point stew out Period of time Pitcher Paying passenger Polecat, female, on raised ground in France Practise boxing blows (4) Pen part (3) Play (5) Pallid Period of forty weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday in the Christian Church Port on Osaka Bay, Honshu, Japan Prunes have to manage Pictures seen one million times Place often visited by hot family member Pack away tightly (4) Picked up next to popular bar (5) Playing spades is approved (6) Pay vet mostly to turn up, speak and disappear (9) Poetry heard in prime time (5) PG or U at the cinema (6) Passage cited from some other source (9) Parts of staircase steps (6) Pictures likely winners, enthusiastic, on board (9) Physicist, heating element up, runs (4) Properly constructed water supply produced (4-4) Port in Yemen (4) Pouch for shampoo (6) Place inside (6) Plant ovule (4) Period of 24 hours (3) Pelvis (3) Pig pen (3) Pleasing or gratifying Poker stake Pigmeat Present during the recording Pears used as a weapon Portable stairs Pilot going astray in marina Poetry (of a kind!) (8) Predicament about marine predator in holiday resort (7) Pair maybe 200 metres beyond Belgium's capital (5) Prepared to drive beyond the south - mount needed (5) Pokes around ring for snares (6) Plenty (4) Pace (4) Popular cut flower Prime minister of Rhodesia from 1964-79 Paul —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Cinderella Man Pale sort of request Punch Peels Plenty of time for English cricket side Publicity features in broadsheets Poor old gent as Victorian prime minister Police officer in boat is wise person Premature (8) Put together project, securing vote with an attitude (9) Put Up, Up and Away under film, raising tempo initially, and cause a violent reaction (4,3,3) Putting the maker's name on golf clubs - they leave a lasting impression (8-5) Petty lie (3) Praise highly (5) Playground item (6) Picture puzzle (5) Prairie wolf (6) Prise (5) Polynesian painter holding a horse's head Place where cubs may be left warm and dry (4) Put on (3) Pith helmet (4) Player's first game (5) Pan tester's potty now Place where cubs may be left warm and dry (4) Put on (3) Pith helmet (4) Player's first game (5) Places to go round for animals Party lines for plaything Plant growing on rocks right outside church Provision of data (5) Place where cubs may be left warm and dry (4) Put on (3) Pith helmet (4) Player's first game (5) Persuade commanding officer with a kiss People beginning to do repair Poisonous snakes, they reckon Persian king holding power in island Proper ceremony, so we hear Pleased (4) Partly open a container (4) Person with ancestors will come down to worker (10) People giving blood (6) Pork (7) Proportion (5) Produce eggs (3) Pb (4) Pleasant to hold back party? Not a success (2,4) Period of instruction is said to be moderate (6) Penny amusement for the audience's gratification (8) Power of a military leader on Cyprus (6) Pick up the phone? (6) Political party in England and Wales since 1985 (6) Prescribed by law (9) Pamper (6) Players supporting game opponents in media show (8) Patient has no effect (7) Paddle in middle of boat, right? Pictures of social centre given new name Poor little creature! (6,5) Proverbially they never receive the beauty prize (5,6) Primary source (6) Picnic basket (6) Pungent (5) Prepared to caress philosopher Prompt acknowledgements of debt may be false Pole having illness that's catching Person excluded from society (7) Prejudicial behavious — Ma is RC (anag) (6) Page in Welsh converted for young English setters, say (6) Provincial (5) Peruse writing (4) Pale medium-dry sherry (11) Polluted air not helping (6) President sounds sustained by it (6) Patisseries getting income distributed or else (12) Proclaim (8) Pole to support sails or rigging (4) Peas in a pod hard when served with roast beef, if out to lunch (5,2,1,7) Politician always backward-looking, noxious air nauseating, ultimately (4-4) Possible requirement when shifting vehicle to wind power (3,4) Paradise (4) Pencil rubber (6) Pinny (5) Pinch (3) Performing animal outside in Pizza topped with mozzarella, tomato and basil (10) Personal guns (8) Peel (4) Paradise (4) Pencil rubber (6) Pinny (5) Pinch (3) Period of darkness expected at first after energy cuts Peel from cucumber in dustbin Power to choose mayor, finally, over one urban area Praise new or old country Praise former road charge? Not entirely! Paradise (4) Pencil rubber (6) Pinny (5) Pinch (3) Pen-name of essayist Charles Lamb (4) Ponder (8) Periods of 10 years — ie canned (anag) (8) Provide a bit of extra incentive as instructors do (5) Planet (5) Paying guests (7) Paper quantity (4) Possesses (3) Peasants hold out when surrounded by police Part of flower, extremely sweet, with new name Protein from the beans of a plant of the pea family (4) Points to attempts made by the competitors (7) Prepared for travelling? (2,4) Pay up if you want to stay (6) Pointed beard (6) Planet's path (5) Prospero's Spirit — Disney's Little Mermaid (5) Popular painting etc — a clue: it surprisingly is hard to understand (12) Practice with vehicle almost covered in concrete (9) Paper won't move, we hear (10) Press for a golf club People from Brno, say (6) Place has needs (anag) — WWI battle, July-November 1917 (13) Photograph for police records (informal) (3,4) Player is inspired by emotionless type, but no leader (6) Place in Panama: (5) Part of leg in small 3, say (4) Poisonous plant produced by fellow Elizabethan sailor (8) Peculiar tailless cat makes a shindy (6) Perspires (6) Permit (3) Playthings (4) Prophet going round S. American city for insects Presiding officer taking flier behind church Pre-programme car, 50% less consumed (8) Poisonous plant produced by fellow Elizabethan sailor (8) Peculiar tailless cat makes a shindy (6) Perspires (6) Permit (3) Playthings (4) Prison band causing upset Pariah not at home with actors Putting one's head in this may make one so wretched Placate (7) Put up (5) Prepared (4,5) Product of cross-fertilisation (6) Poisonous plant produced by fellow Elizabethan sailor (8) Peculiar tailless cat makes a shindy (6) Perspires (6) Permit (3) Playthings (4) Prospero's playing the tyrant Prohibited group, so we hear Playing on organ in Burmese city Pail (6) Pamphlet (5) Push roughly with large tool Party leader is not pleased with gifts Prone (4,4) Pass out (5) Pig went for coarse plant (7) Proper to shield singular source of spectral effects (5) Pepys, for one, is said to be the worst (6) Part of formal inspectorate in here in Africa (4) Preserve a form of service in honour of noted artist (9) Pointer initially ignored by soldiers and worker? That's ill-mannered (8) Perfect introduction by a croupier? (5) Part of a theatre largely reconstructed (7) Place under restraint in rotation, we hear (6) Photograph by which a crook is identified? (5) Pleasantly cold (4) Pressing metal in the capital of Greece Precise old law? Pinch a little drink Pot or potty for a group of soldiers Polite (9) Perhaps tomorrow Rufus sets cryptic (Saturdays excepted) (6) Provide milk for lost cat recently found outside (7) Pamper (6) Precipitation (3) Public speaker (6) Prose composition (5) Prophets (5) Principle unaffected by revolution Paying no attention (8) Poke (4) Protective eyewear (7) Place equipped for sports or physical training (9) Plant releases indelicate aroma to start with (7) Points one put to newspaper union leader (4) Plant seen in another book (4) Petty gangster (7) Planet (7) Part of a Chinese meal, perhaps, one sold out Pubs that stop people escaping? Prognosticate (8) Provides entertainment (6) Protection against risk (9) Put into words (7) Places formerly selling gold-lined ranges (6) Pitman once bringing in amateur scrutineer (8) Provision for light sleeper? (3,3) Predicament (7) Punctuation mark (5) Pasta cases with savoury filling (7) Place for Fielding novel's opening — love dark twists (3-2) Prompt about catching one on dope, aiming for a better race? (7) Picaroon picked up cat hair (7) Predicament (7) Punctuation mark (5) Plans to produce starch Poor female swan on river steamship Pecans, almonds etc (4) Predicament (7) Punctuation mark (5) Person or device rotating cooking meat (8) Pay attention to a short message (4) Pointed beard (6) Play on words (3) Poker stake (4) Pressing metal in Gateshead Produce crosswords (3) Person who makes fabric (6) Put a match to a cigarette (5,2) Provides coal for scientific unit (6) Prince William gestures audibly? They bring us a broadcast (8) Pulsate (5) Persian greyhound (6) Popular pet (3) Prior to (6) Petite iron designed for one with a suit Professional farm vehicle that's used by geometry students Pleasant Ealing production? Popular English composer has died? I'm flabbergasted (1,5,3) Plant (4) Population count (6) Pose a question (3) Playing scales, or a game Pole accepts the church over style and ornamentation (5) Perhaps the young Mozart's expert crack at symphony's finale (7) Possibly another one in party, broadcasting (2,3,5) Parking was to be found for Candida, perhaps (4) Penal reform board (5) Possibly it bent and snapped (6) Particle of matter (4) Pinkish-orange colour (5) Pitch (3) Pace (4) Protective garment a professional nurse first needed Pot plant discovered in active flora? Powder used in capital city Perplexed (like 23?) (2,3) Poor road users in North passing through bigger motorway curves, keeping right (6,8) Possibly beat a retreat (5) Put off Ted's return with hesitation (5) Perspiration (5) Pigmeat (5) Public sale (7) Posers start leading in fashions Perhaps I reveal a girl's name Pin for holding meat being roasted (6) Prepare for a future role (5) Piece provided, worn pipe (8) Possibly beat a retreat (5) Put off Ted's return with hesitation (5) Perspiration (5) Pigmeat (5) Public sale (7) Paths from bistro? Prosper - like Dusty Miller? Pinpoint (4) Possibly beat a retreat (5) Put off Ted's return with hesitation (5) Perspiration (5) Pigmeat (5) Public sale (7) Preparation for guy or Tibetan leader - food made from curdled milk Potato (informal) (4) Permitted (7) People below the nobility (6) Price cuts made by discounter? Prim artiste clad in tatters Pressed metal supplied by editor Pornographic (4) Prolonged shortage (7) Pot shot taken wildly in a potentially dangerous area (3,4) Past caring for religion? (8,7) Pedestrian being initially very fussy (5) Plain clothes include a couple of accessories lacking finish (5) Pull back piece of dustcart taillight (7) Possibly lets us struggle (6) Press one improperly for an answer (8) Puerile (8) Person's residence, slang (3) Passes on (6) Playground item (6) Paradise (4) Ploys to find precious stones behind layers of rock Produce good food in Derbyshire Puzzles responsible for angry speech? Pig's feet for Del Boy and Rodney? Physical evidence of excitement or fear (10) Popular account: English royal abdicated over a breach (8) Plenty (4) Personal belief of a duck on the wing? Port at the mouth of the Seine (2,5) Part (4) Part of a rugby goal (8) Piano rock repulsed pretty delicate little things (6) Proper screens an element of bronzing — catching rays? (7) Prosaic epithet for a footman? (10) Passable description of justice (4) Poor weather, so you'll find the artist at home (4) Precious metal (4) Phase (5) Piece of artillery that's used by builders? Performing twice in Tosca is stimulating for a soloist? (9) Person grilling odd sandwiches is not out to lunch (10) Plain Welsh seaside resort, no dud (5) Passion dominates game, we hear, in pointless tennis position (4,8,3) Pressing apparel for formal wear (7,7) Provoke to fury (6) Propriety (7) Protect (5) Provided a speech to read out Perfect stories (4,2) Penchant for the final act (4,4) Pressing apparel for formal wear (7,7) Provoke to fury (6) Propriety (7) Protect (5) Pinch small duck Person destined to be taken advantage of (informal) (5) Proficient (5) Piece of photographic equipment (6) Perfect place (6) Pressing apparel for formal wear (7,7) Provoke to fury (6) Propriety (7) Protect (5) Profit (7) Part of your alphabetical name (5) Particle of sand (5) Picturesque (6) Perceive sound (4) Pleasure craft (6) Pinch (3) Packers seen on the moon? Proceed to put sticky stuff on pole Pleasant tumble in gale Preoccupation with buying things (11) Perchance (8) Proviso (11) Plant — drainage (anag) (8) Plant is found across Rhode Island (4) Protest ignited by institute concerned with ruin (10) Protection for first of ministers to be airbrushed from explosive images (5) Probability governs this torture for a wage slave (3,2,8) Play one's own game, not considering one division (3,5) Powder that adds spice to the soil? (6,6) Pop's Mr Waterman (4) Produce eggs (3) Perpendicular (5) Post off (5) Plunder (6) Plenty of cargoes Plot in bay surrounding retro pub (7) Parents manage to crush one's spirit (7,4) Priceless old weapon employed by no-one in particular (9) Players - or the pitch (4) Past get-up a Roman wore (4) Picture house (6) Provide food (5) Private evening party (6) Path — street (3) Person in favour of peaceful or conciliatory policies (4) Perforated bowl (8) Plant belonging to you and me (5) Published remarkable children's author (7) Prospect following land clearance (4,3) Previous head of the convent (5) Post (4) Pirate (9) Procrastinates (6) Pallid (5) Principal bullfighter (7) Pants (5) Parentless children (7) Public promenade (6) Protective mechanism ensures triumph against dangerous opponents (4-4) Plant two drugs (9) Present state supporting old refuge (5) Peruvian old master (4) Prompt about going on day-shift (5) Party, slang (4) Prison room (4) Purchase (3) Pig pen (3) Part of road — here drivers got stuck Place to 10 someone (5) Peruvian old master (4) Prompt about going on day-shift (5) Party, slang (4) Prison room (4) Purchase (3) Pig pen (3) Pointers not required? Not entirely Part of a golf course (5) Public (5) Person one doesn't know well (12) Person not willing or able to change (8) Peruvian old master (4) Prompt about going on day-shift (5) Party, slang (4) Prison room (4) Purchase (3) Pig pen (3) Poor Gerald looked angry Play set in Illyria (7,5) Pencil rubber (6) Prose composition (5) Protection recommended at first in love affair Patella (7) Pipe up with strangely poetic hymn (7,3) Peaceful location finally lost identity (6) Put emphasis on nervous tension (6) Pagan (7) Prepared (5) Pitch (3) Passed off as a dark suit Propeller (5) Pub holds back 12 bottles of wine for festival (6) Provider of juice to warhorse (7) Politician caught in awkward recline with unnatural material (9) Put away slice (7) Poplar tree (5) Pine (5) Painful (4) People from Zagreb, perhaps, overthrowing Castro Protest (7) Petrol station (6) Prepare to admit first blunder (7) Put on (3) Prefer (6) Portent (4) Pair in trouble given 50 or 30 days Paint a textbook Popular British biscuit (plain or chocolate) (6) Palladium rejected because screw contains iron (9) Pantry (6) Performs on stage (4) Police truncheon (5) Prolonged mutual hostility (4) Provinces concerning charity Personal (10) Pocket (7) Prepared (the table or a trap?) (4) Pass leads to simple poacher's goal (5) Perhaps Rupert Pupkin's on the air, somehow (4-4) Pantry (6) Performs on stage (4) Police truncheon (5) Prolonged mutual hostility (4) Part of oven is only for meat Poison that makes some live no more Profits in gas distribution President of France, 1959-69 (2,6) Pantry (6) Performs on stage (4) Police truncheon (5) Prolonged mutual hostility (4) Precise former spouse has to do something Pair involved in most woe Plant providing seeds and oil (6) Places in three directions indicated by the signpost? (5) Principally (6) Party, informally (4) Police, slang (4) Planet (5) Players drink before start of match Press some courgettes Prayer leads to our redemption, I gather (9) Physician left after a woman's protracted delivery (5) Put back a receptacle in side feature of a hotel room? (7) Proposal put in limp language (4) Pass by like time (6) Pig sound (5) Poker stake (4) Providing accommodation abroad - at full speed Pose (10) Passing comment? Nothing had an effect (4) Pull two out of shape (3) Player's first game (5) Pigmeat (3) Plant type (7) Permit (to overtake?) (4) Polish national dance music (7) Person raking in money in dock after court briefly disrupted (8) Put on something saucy? (5) Petty lies (4) Pointed tuftlike beard (6) Plaintive cries are heard in the principality Period of excessive behaviour (5) Prisoner or patient? (6) Page (4) Power cut all round makes a prominent story (6) Pub notice laid out in this funny-looking alphabet (8) Passionate desire reproved, having to be purified (9) Place to stay on holiday (5) Pace (4) Plaything (3) Prose composition (5) Poetry (5) Press club Pitiful tea bellman prepared Painful exclamation suppressed by the French is disreputable Pass on (6) Peel paste off (anag) — sugared fruit (6,6) President with a new flat (10) Penny swallowed by 7 — that's eaten at the end of the day (6) Part of two hospitals taken up in London area (4) Place to stay on holiday (5) Pace (4) Plaything (3) Prose composition (5) Poetry (5) Pickled cucumber (7) Pretend (5) Place to stay on holiday (5) Pace (4) Plaything (3) Prose composition (5) Poetry (5) Puzzle with tangled ropes Preserve a mischievous child Part of a chair (7) Possible alternative to meat (4) Part of the ear (8) Plunder pithead fort in 18 (7) Perish (3) Publicity seen by thirsty nymphs Pine or larch, for instance (8) Preliminary drawing (5) Pass round the port, my man? (7) Party at son's place, a cheap lodging (9) President leaves a drop of red wine (5) Permitted not to pay anything yet? (7) Put straight crooked dealing (7) Place at examination brings praise (7) Plant, initially from Umbria, cultivated here shows impressive adaptability (7) Plant pot leaked (4) Plant taking top off pipe after time (7) Prepared lean crab and another crustacean (8) Professor consumed gift (6) Presumably the odds are weighted in their favour (5,7) Pieces (4) Period of 24 hours (3) Ptrepared to caress philosopher Plant gardener's first rambling rose Prone to take legal action (9) Productive part of a factory? (4,5) Plant ground more millet (10) Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city (6) Protestant archbishop's first proscription overturned — past it sadly (10) Possibly pots palms for brightening up the street (4-5) Public speaker (6) Popular newspaper (7) Pets trained by a German sculptor Pleasure trip (6) Puréed vegetables, traditionally served with fish and chips (5,4) Performing with German in state dance (5) Parisian underground (5) Place (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Pickpockets? Detective inspector has second thoughts Person in the van covering for musician (6) Pretty female attending family celebration (4,2) Plant opened by appropriate tool, entered again (7) Pagans, ones about to procrastinate? (9) Parrot soared, everyone soared (7) Prosecute (3) Portent (4) Picture puzzle (5) Prise (5) Pop her in pants for dance Principal thoroughfare terminates oddly Policemen try to provide building material Put foot repeatedly in fruit tree (6) Prosecute (3) Portent (4) Picture puzzle (5) Prise (5) Plant some privet, perhaps, or some wretched geraniums Playthings for Guy's companions Party leader (5) Piece of music (7) Piece of torn skin (8) Prosecute (3) Portent (4) Picture puzzle (5) Prise (5) Performances by a team are fair attractions (9) Pigmeat (5) Poses a question (4) Pick-me-up (5) Paradise (4) Policemen heard in thicket Princess has second thoughts - and goes down Provice drug? Crack! Place of sudden prosperity (8) Party welcoming a break (4) Penny's dropping off bits and pieces (8) Party with a group of journalists — kids, not half! (5-3) Polish woman to call back (7) Pugilism (6) Primate (3) Permit (5) Pitiful father gets the twitch Particular (5) Pasta sauce (9) Parodic performance (4) Plot by Jack introducing primarily unjustified smear (6) Parisian in silence lying sprawled in charming manner (10) Priest has installed hot plate (6) Plates needed for this kind of food (6) Pace to travel past the street (6) Poker stake (4) Play on words (3) Professional cook (4) Pirates roving for money overseas Prize given to the French in a stable state Paint may be unsuitable Potato (in Indian cuisine) (4) Peculiar (5) Point the sailor steers by (4) Possibly reunites the followers (8) Pouring in, in a state of change (6) Pits (5) Primary source (6) Pixie (3) Put forward expert holding dud parts Pro (3) Popular — attractive (3) Pay back (9) Paul in debt, probably asking for a stroke? (7) Planet (5) Portly (5) Possesses (3) Provide food (5) Particle of matter (4) Plant not wanted by small daughter Pet for Dorset leader in Dorset resort Profession in the media (10) Pained from riding (6-4) Painful bill — object, spending time (6) Painless barking for dogs (8) President once with aspiration for boost (4) Planet (5) Portly (5) Possesses (3) Provide food (5) Particle of matter (4) Principal notice inserted in border in front of flower Poor diet Tom has skipped Pasta in fine long strands (10) Prompt — impel (8) Pre-1961 British coin (8) Planet (5) Portly (5) Possesses (3) Provide food (5) Particle of matter (4) Poor sample of trees Part of book taken out in theatre! Page bound to be easily bent Powdered seasoning (7) Put forward (7) Parisian thoroughfare (6-7) Period of maturing (7) Pleasantly cold (4) Pixie (5) Perform (3) People with this complaint may easily be spotted Prohibit support for musician Protective helmet worn by jockeys (8) Parking where taxis do for a lark (5) Play area has smooth hollow (7) Person enjoying liberty heartlessly imprisoning one who rescues cats? (7) Present at the sports stadium, lying down! (2,3,6) Pieces of tackle for the right fish (5) Pistachio, for example (3) Paper handkerchief (6) Perspires (6) Playthings (4) Perhaps the elders may be protected Put clothes back on? Correct! Part of Aida reportedly getting backing - that's what Verdi is famous for Provider of cover (7) Precipitation (5) Put straight tabloid's missing section with ferocious expression (7) Passivity I confronted primarily in country (8) Problem will put the game in disarray (6) Puts forward (9) Puts up (6) Pay the bill (4,2,3,3) Pantomime dame (5,7) Put nuts back, having no time when night's over (3,2) Plate (4) Put back in control, say? People are going to be forced to resign (5,4,4) Parisian right about director — 24 didn't want him (5) Partly uprooted catnip, roses and stonecrop (5) Pie mixed to provide a remedy for the gourmet (7) Private spite, we hear (6) Planet (5) Party drink (5) Paint or lime on us, perhaps Portable personal weapons (5,4) Piscivorous bird (6) Poor area in endless recession (4) Pie mixed to provide a remedy for the gourmet (7) Private spite, we hear (6) Planet (5) Party drink (5) Prophetic leader agrees to alter forecast Perhaps I learn about money in a northern county Principal sea Plant structure which becomes a seed when fertilised (5) Paganini's instrument (6) Propose (6) Pie mixed to provide a remedy for the gourmet (7) Private spite, we hear (6) Planet (5) Party drink (5) Panatella, for example (5) Partly under water from waves caused by a passing vessel (5) Pelvis (3) Premature (5) Precipitation (5) Post off (5) Principal eastern state of the USA Powerless South American island quietly coming up (9) Polish hero crossed by rebellious old Roman (7) Produce cover — it's certainly revealing (4,3) Plant at the heart of pagans' peerless medicine (6) Perish round the ocean through illness (7) Plant (4) Present age (5) Party, informally (5) Petty lie (3) Precious stones left in fruit Picture device arrived with artist Peril in untidy garden Part of a poem (6) Position in society (6) Pout (4) Powder used by first alchemists (4) Paying for fine inlaid top furniture item (10) Playing clarinet and briefly leaving performance (7) Painting has the power that a mechanic could make good use of (6) Place to disturb this obnoxious animal (7) Pitch (3) Players taking a long time dressing? Paddy has light brown tin-opener - odd! PM once was disheartened and upset leaving country (4) Putting up some resistance to what the easel manufacturer is doing (6,1,5) Puts on shows - they're associated with Christmas (8) Prophet (4) Price (4) Protective suit (6) Precipitation (3) Perplexes (7) Puzzle (6) Picture house (6) Period at the end of the day (7) Place for holiday transfer, ultimately — livid here, say, having lost all cases? (7) Plain holiday home providing accommodation for one (7) Proverbially it's not an indication of gold (7) Place firmly (5) Perch (5) Postponement causing aversion Poke gently with a stick Pasta and meat dish (abbr) (4,3) Pivot (6) Pull back (in horror?) (6) Playing safe, my risk wins multi-tasking aid (5,4,5) Proverbially it's not an indication of gold (7) Place firmly (5) Perch (5) Preferred (8) Proverbially it's not an indication of gold (7) Place firmly (5) Perch (5) Providing some collateral afterwards Pleasant and easy-going (7) Produced the rent (6) Pulsate (5) Push gently (5) Postpone (5) People correspond - by telepathy? Post Office trainees emptied containers Podium (4) Pushchair filled with tiny crawlers (5) Put up with conclusion to rude shenanigans (7) Put up with Rupert, perhaps? (4) Provide food from the crate (5) Pay attention; 50 and 10 are the same! 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Correct Player ranked according to their ability in a knock-out competition (4) Place selling deep-fried food (4,4) Pupil (7) Playground item (5) Put back an inverted spike Plans extremely sexy retro dance with origin in Ilford Politician is not arse, surprisingly Pantomime character regularly taking in victims Poor densely populated city area (6) Parts of a foot (6) Prominent rock on a hill (3) Praise some complex tolerance (5) Put money on the Spanish nut (5) Prison rooms (5) Puzzle-solving aids (5) Perfect society (6) Pop's Mr Keating (5) Precipitation (5) Praise former partner over large amount raised Provincial (7) Place for children and other young animals? 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Popular fast dance to swing music in the 1940s (9) People who work (or play) together (4) Put together our clothes, prepared to sign up (4,3,7) Prime ministers given a flatbread (5) Paradise (4) Person's residence (3) Painful (4) Pace (4) People finding hotel slightly inferior to home Perfect example (7) Page with dotty portraits lacking an introduction to Roy Lichtenstein? (3,6) Painter inspired by place of worship, making master free slave (9) Precipitation (4) Pimple (4) Purchaser (5) Peter Parker ultimately being more cautious Possessing heroin - after comedian... Provide disc to correct software problem without lead for laptop - if it crashes it could be disastrous Puritan and saint drinking wine — they may be in bed (9) Philosopher astride horse or kind of lamb (7) Peter amended tiny part of Bible giving reason to stick together (6,2,7) Put back together? (6) Perhaps I lament an illness (7) Plays the guitar and drinks on the street (6) Plenty (4) Parsley, for example (4) Part of speech: sailor taking in Democrat version Period of fasting: hour covers good duration Proceeding slowly (7) Paean, book for all to see in stock (7) Put back together? (6) Perhaps I lament an illness (7) Plays the guitar and drinks on the street (6) Plenty (4) Parsley, for example (4) Part of sovereign or ancestral state displaying little enlightenment Part of core curriculum to come up time and again Party in Spain (6) Plus or minus sign, say (8) Put back together? (6) Perhaps I lament an illness (7) Plays the guitar and drinks on the street (6) Plenty (4) Parsley, for example (4) Psychological disorder (8) Pardon the girl without a home (7) Photographic equipment can be a scream (7) People curse certain clothes (8) Pleasure craft (6) Player's first game (5) Private evening party (6) Principally (7) Peace, tranquillity (6) Pleased the worst grade ignored in clearing? Piano piece old double act put in the wrong order Pipe fitting is round, as it happens Projectile — backfire (9) Particular way of doing something (5,8) Part of the arm (5) Pawnbroker has a name like muck (7) Part of play understood when listening (5) Pops round for car ride (4) Picked up self-satisfied mood (4) Play the part of Cassandra, maybe (5) Prophets (5) Part of a whole (7) Pressed (6) Pinch (3) Pig's foot (7) Planet (7) Place bits of banjo in trash Parts of contests about a set of books Panto character's revolutionary container for bodily effluvium? Philosophical study of morals (6) Polaris (5,4) Protest article's purpose (6) Put down what the criminal has (6) Pick an artist for Sophocles' play (7) Piece of harness that needs to be adjusted right (5) Pub game (5) Primary source (6) Perfect (5) Perhaps a local date on musical instrument associated with cathedral city (4,2,4) Planet (6) Pitch (3) Piece of information obtained from US lawyer by corporation Pros and cons explained succinctly at first Public duck enclosure Psychiatrist's artist companion describing limits of outdoor school Personal (3) Pop group among 150 supported by a Jewish system of belief (7) Place rebuilt round the capital of Holland as a base for the services (6) Person next door (9) Part of Los Angeles (informal) (10) Proposition in maths or logic (7) Playwright (female) at rock bottom after upset (8) Paper that's made up of lies? (6) Place rebuilt round the capital of Holland as a base for the services (6) Person next door (9) Popular song and dance by Motown regularly feature in 6A fiesta Picked up important little bird Pop diva wearing fake sable stands outside Place rebuilt round the capital of Holland as a base for the services (6) Person next door (9) Pipe is turned back; new plumbing at last stopping flood Postpone (5) Pitiable creature (6) Presbyters' shrubs (6) Perfect (5) Perform (3) Protest is about money Particular types of briefs probed by leading journo Podcaster is keen to host a star Parent and child in charge of a secret group Place of damnation (4) Pigment derived from 1 across (5) Prompted college to replace verb in request by director (7) Professor shares unopened gifts (9) Paris seminar includes piece about Argentinian scoring maestro (5) Positive response to dodgy trade by Yankee recently (9) Partially fair-headed bird (4) Presume to drink with model (7) Particle of matter (4) Prosecute (3) Peel (4) Plan that woman snorting coke put to Hoskins Pietà sculpted by one in foreign capital Put up with large and powerful muscles Parsimonious leader feels bitter about getting gifts Person of long-standing loyalty (8) Pervert (5) Provide eg food (5) Pull apart, eg threads (6) Party? Good! Know direction of line for setter's home? (3,6) Put an end to drink (6) Perhaps Irish saga elicits something occult (6) Pen part (3) Pistachio, for example (3) Prepared (5) Plough (4) Postpone (5) Person giving blood (5) Pirouette (5) Prepare to try gas (not oxygen) when containing bad air (7) Product of mine, light and strong — the second one's superfluous for Americans (9) Prepare drink for 007, something fermented with hydrogen in it (5) Part of silver necklace for French author (5) Pay for youth leader to organise international agreement (6) Planet (4) Person from Rome (5) Picture puzzle (5) Provide food (5) Patron having been upset by agent Paid with radicchio, initially, that is found among mixed greens Pressure needed in bellows? I'm astounded! Pre-1982 UK youth detention centre (7) Pose and sit in odd places? This shows I crave attention (4) Phase one neglected in prehistoric period (5) Policeman carries little British idiots across the pond (6) Perhaps one of those who backed Holly in game (7) Polite, courteous (5) Petty lie (3) Plastic toys with a McDonald’s, primarily for recycling (9) Performing properly wearing clothes (2,4) Polite, courteous (5) Petty lie (3) Pound put on black - splitting responsibility - it's normally red Pop star's dicky heart finally giving way Part of a poem (6) Polite, courteous (5) Petty lie (3) Pavarotti for one bought enormous trousers Pivotal, critical (7) Prohibition (4) Pastry case with a filling (4) Play on words (3) Poor Eritrean servant Poet barely cuts out a line (5) Presume swimming is best (7) Popular prophesy with a Latin opening (9) Plant beginning to grow above ancient bar (9) Porter who looks after the mail (6-6) Pollen container in fragrant herbs (6) Puts a ban on professional writers (10) Preceded by a consort of Zeus (4) Powerful (6) Poke (4) Price (4) Polite behaviour towards others (8) Persuade with flattery (6) Painter of Rain, Steam and Speed (6) Put down pointless document (4) Prickly shrub that will keep animals warm, we hear (5) Party drink (5) Pine (5) Parisian from motorsport content to cancel challenge Poles leave American dollar bills to settle Pig getting bloody upset, attacking sailor Purely aesthetic (8) Pin-up about to tuck into a lot of raw food (5,4) Possibly dust a fastener (4) Performs with a new cast (4) Presses to get golf clubs (5) Pastime (5) Picasso's first name (5) Popular Indian leader, shut your face! (6) Phone for a jewellery item (4) Pallid (5) Paris river (5) Point to show direction Period when the sea is receding (3,4) Place where birds regularly settle at night (5) Perhaps Austin's plant is not good enough (14) Progressive finished university (9) Phone for a jewellery item (4) Pallid (5) Paris river (5) Put up with split ignoring line down middle Promoted clubs occupying one ground argued indiscriminately Person responsible for sacking John replaces lawyers in exchange Previous head of religious community Preparation that's brushed a test photo up Peatland plant — song has mumps (anag) (8,4) Principal post on a sailing ship (8) Part of a javelin (5) Phone for a jewellery item (4) Pallid (5) Paris river (5) Proprietor of farm, say, left warden no alternative Plentiful, copious (8) Perceive (3) Precipice, crag (5) Primary source (6) Possibly a feature of fair skin, except when reflected Person helping polish big gun in building Pastry top (3,5) Posh daily in top class city (9) Pleasant company in a glen when rambling (9) Put off playing a certain sport (13) Piebald horse needs a certain amount of liquid and nothing more (5) Piece of sacred music involving nearly everybody in hard task (7) Present schoolchildren don't indulge in it (11) Principal (4) Pile (4) Permits (4) Pacific ocean finally going purple around noon Port Jack Aubrey's opening is Iberian wine Post receptacle (9) Patronising — impish (4) Perhaps corn is marred by a folk entertainer (6,6) Postman? (3,2,7) Prizes for showing conflict in commercials (6) Plastic bullet (5,5) Pace (4) Prophet (4) Painful (4) Possible or likely (2,3,5) Pig sound (5) Pig pen (3) Part of accounting editorial is not tainted Poor writer's describing psychiatrist's brother Pinprick (5) Pets whose traditional enemies doubled at first (7) Peoples bringing cameras in and out (9) Persuasive mob from Fleet Street? (5,4) Primates (4) Perform (3) Plays for time (6) Precipitation (3) Patter (5) Pakistani city (6) Potassium - what a hawthorn absorbs, or dry grass Piece of garlic (5) Pub fight getting heated, we hear, in seaside town (6-2-7) Peter is thus made peer in a demoralising way (15) Perfect law that's been revoked (5) Paper probes drunkard with problem, which is yielding material (4,6) Peru's revolution meant to be overlooked (13) Pinch (3) Painful, naturally, to have it cracked apart? Possibly works on log cabins, but not top part Piece of vegetable or meat deep-fried in spiced batter (6) Pose kept up by horse flogger (9) Peru's revolution meant to be overlooked (13) Pinch (3) Precipitation (4) Presents Bluth has with extremely gorgeous wrapping Peru's revolution meant to be overlooked (13) Pinch (3) Place hidden by grass lay empty by all accounts Papal Order admitted sharing Latin publication Pursue (6) Petitions to a god (7) Player who finds the net (6) Prairie fare is nothing spicy (5,4) Pet with brown tail mostly missing — odd (7) Prisons (5) Poplar tree (5) Permanent marker? Presumed deviant ups dope around start of summer Pretty gutted act will restrict Penthouse? Pound Tom owes for no-frills sexual liaison? Progressive party for card players (5,5) PC World's opening — consent to having electronic support (4) Possibly resists those found in 11 across (7) Passes on (6) Poison (7) Pipe for firing poison darts, say (7) Person ridiculing authoritarian approach, but not loudly (7) Precious metal base is shining (5) Plant ovule (4) Parlour game (8) Powerful (6) People baptise sons in hilly region Prove superior as cleric filling bucket Permit 51 churches to keep name Page with Lima in the map redrawn for publication Paint (anag) — awkward (5) Play main piece, not initially audible (4,4) Place for climber to fix a rope in tricky ascent (6) Perhaps pull guy: knob (9) Possibly a set of drinks (4) Put on (3) Pose a question (3) Part of tortoise arguably shell-like Pooch fan (3,5) Plants that complete their life cycles within the space of a year (7) Place of complete bliss and peace? (8,4) Provided with food taken back to consume — best or worst (6) Prone to be standing up to with determination (6,4) Permit, or punitively deter, second name appearing in deed (8) Person who's active in so many directions? Just the opposite (6) Price to pay for rush to attack (6) Plump (6) Pungent (5) Person (5) Pimples (5) Pungent fleshy edible root (6) Pre-1989 name for the capital of Myanmar (7) Penny-pinching (6) Price to pay for rush to attack (6) Plump (6) Pungent (5) Person (5) Pimples (5) Price to pay for rush to attack (6) Plump (6) Pungent (5) Person (5) Pimples (5) Poet not allowed on the radio? Pass sentence (7) Pigs soiled ground? It's hardly earth-shattering news (4,6) Press coverage suspended at ten for negotiation (9) Philosophy is part of unusual sitcom (8) Pick up artist is European (5) Parts of camphor gas mixture can be explosive! (6) Plan to adapt attic to store clubs (6) Pay for rest (6) Part of remark needs a bit of articulation (4) Paper seen about in the morning (4) Propriety (7) Purchaser (5) Product stolen by courier Playing field correctly positioned for football, right? Think again Pigs in the middle fear empty troughs Prince of Darkness (9) Protective plate supports gemstone (8) Problem with this Roman vessel (6) Parlay has a king thus functioning (2,4) Payer regarding Spooner's dividend (11) Pilgrim's bad experience somewhere near Windsor (6) Put a black cover on the playing surface (5) Portly (5) Prison rooms (5) Peaceful, mild (6) Precipitation form (5) Pretty wife wearing shirt President wiping leader's bum Pixie (3) Prevailing mood of China? Cut power off first! (7) Point of departure for directors at the end of the season (11) Prima donna (4) Pallid (3) Pooped and wiped bum dirt with back of sleeve Pollarded tree forms curved structure Planter — digger — pruner (8) Punctuation mark (9) Paul worked with Troy on boat propeller (8) Practise again on a funeral car (8) Performs part of the Bible (4) Pantihose (6) Prophet (4) Profitable (8) Pay heed (6) Providing energy, dainty sweetheart for 24? (1,4,4) Pup with 24? (5) Procession where heart broken by 24? (7) Promise broken by Paul's wife in budgie smugglers, perhaps? (8) Pole blows up (4) Part of lettering on gold medal, perhaps (4) Please turn around in repose (6) Prosecute (3) Poetry (5) Proverb (5) Plunder (4) Prompt in securing book 8? Part of brain that mostly inverted everything? Nearly everything Preserve human remains (6) Person who has won all four Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards (4) Please turn around in repose (6) Prosecute (3) Poetry (5) Proverb (5) Plunder (4) Plants are fine around wet areas, gardener ultimately admitted Please turn around in repose (6) Prosecute (3) Poetry (5) Proverb (5) Plunder (4) Picture defeat by France Put an end to (7) Plastic disc used in outdoor game (7) Peculiar — individual (13) Power of memory (9) Place to pay the bill (4,4) Public acclaim (5) Pirouette on the cricket field? (3,4) Poisonous plant made nark convulsive (8) Powerful piece from rock band (5) Popular archaeological site has nothing in the shade (6) Put off by pressure working in new depots (9) Pages he put in series (6) Person with an oar (5) Photograph priest on base of Holy Cross Pitch (3) Playing card expert on vacation run to ground Porridge shock, as had bears Pay attention, Edna and learn to shuffle Palindromic supergroup (4) Part of a chain (4) Ponder, as referee, about extra time (8) Part of range seen after symphonist's fifth? (4) Predator concealing most of his weapon (8) Prodigal son immersed? (6) Picasso and Braque, for instance (7) PM once ignoring head of Treasury to protect Welsh woman and foreign nationals? (8) Permissions for king put in jail with occasional access (10) PIN number 1150? (4) Prayer ending (4) Portion (7) Preserve after death (6) Published books about United Plain and simple (7) Pound gets eastern family food dish (7) Plain stewed prune acting as a spirit? (15) Plough wealth into backward North East? Very funny! (6) Permitted to be said audibly (5) Print measures from the last manuscript (3) Parcel (7) Playthings (4) Perform stuff from Quince in Globe ... it holds up entrance Put off (5) Part sung in key, another key briefly eclipsing it (9) Platform where meaty sandwiches left (7) Possibly angelfish (5) Particle of matter (4) Poses a question (4) Peruse writing (4) Perish (3) Pants (5) Prosaic English studio edited Prepare to move out, perhaps, having apparently harboured cheat Plunder (4) Possibly angelfish (5) Particle of matter (4) Poses a question (4) Peruse writing (4) Perish (3) Pants (5) Part of document that's often used in footer? Person looked up to as an exemplar (4,5) Possibly angelfish (5) Particle of matter (4) Poses a question (4) Peruse writing (4) Perish (3) Pants (5) Person who does the dirty and/or boring work (8) Plunder (7) Produce attack to seal game (5) Poet who gives value for the text (10) Principles require writing off half of core debt (4) Perfect request for dessert (5,3,5) Passed over hard liquor when depressed (10) Promoted piece of exquisitely graceful diamond-based design (6) Predatory gull upset these birds (4) Period of time (4) Picture within another (5) Pig pen (3) Prior to (6) Prepared (5) Perverts dance on Sabbath Projection behind and above a horse's hoof (7) Protective footwear (5) Papers covering union conference’s opening often misrepresented it, on reflection (8) Pound payment up front: squander and be unhappy (4,4) Play with a dessert dish (6) Polite expression of a dance (6,2) Put to bed? (5,3) Precipitation form (3) Provides refreshment as serving staff ignore one (6) Part of the batten drilled as support for climbers (7) Pretend to force one to accept the faith (4-7) Purchaser (5) Prison rooms (5) Pushed brief to reject rather terse legal interpretation, initially Prince Andrew, perhaps, probed by northern state Panel discussion about imprisoning unemployed Poles receiving money in Germany to encourage nervous workers? Particular flyer's articulations being excellent (3,4,5) Presented learner with sale hammer (5) Petty lie (3) Personal influence over others (informal) (4) Piece of poetry (5) Person one is talking with (12) Press endlessly saying things without meaning them (4) Patience, say, I manage to keep in company, getting arm twisted (5,5) Pavlova with hot topping getting huge praise (7) Pooh-pooh bust said to interrupt boom, perhaps (7) Pungent and sour - about right (5) Put in lodgings in part of town (7) Pointed beard (6) Play on words (3) Presumptuous to include iron and carbon? It’s ideal Pressure on terminus still to come? Produce that is left in yard Pungent and sour - about right (5) Put in lodgings in part of town (7) Pointed beard (6) Play on words (3) Place to stay overnight (5) Petition (often to a deity) (6) Public address system (6) Pungent and sour - about right (5) Put in lodgings in part of town (7) Pointed beard (6) Play on words (3) Powerful through taking charge after revolution Part for hooter has taped harmony to listen to Professional tried hard after losing the lead Part of the leg (5) Prepare (the way) (4) Plan is to get back and wander round (8) Present silly, but not sick, unorthodox opinion (6) Put down other end that's damaged (8) Parts of the decimal system (6) Principal (4) Plant part (4) Permits (6) Playground items (6) Perfect (5) Pop group heard in eastern European and central Asian regions Person from whom one is descended — no traces (anag) (8) Place to live (9) Part of a car wheel (6) Put flags on quiet little street (4) Pay for being the least celebrated act? (4,3,4) Plenty (4) Paradise (4) Progressive group starts to attract support round city in Texas Post-war lunch reported bit by bit Possibly retaining western influence Piece of grave writing (7) Plant air can ruin (6) Pressed on board (6) Playground item (6) Poorly (5) Playthings (4) Posh females splitting fish dish Pivotal (7) Prize (6) Positive American's sincerity is not all there (3-2) Pop Art — with the Radio Times withdrawing complaint (9) Perhaps saps complete military training (4,3) Pointed remark (4) Plaster — my pugs (anag) (6) Person bagging degree, Cambridge's ultimate blue (7) Punches ain't less brutal (4,4) Piece of floss is a long fibre (5) Put off being freed unfortunately (5) Pugilist (5) Pub game (5) Pistachio, for example (3) Plunders (7) Pair of performers (4) Pinafore (5) Practitioner of a winter sport (6) Picture book? (5) Poets, we hear, making clangers? (10) Problem for wizard, this being the case at times (3,3,4) Piece of drapery left at the back of various seats (6) Part-owner? (5) Pilot required to take this post (3-4) Palatable old joke? (5,8) Pottery glaze could be the result (6) Plucky American fellow going round back-street (5) Players bearing with poor performer Public dispute about hotel’s downfall Provide better weapons for military at back, munitions at the outset Public perception of glossy publication? That is about it! Pained expression in sea off Nice that may be cutting Person easily deceived by recycled article in Palace location Piece of drapery left at the back of various seats (6) Part-owner? (5) Pilot required to take this post (3-4) Palatable old joke? (5,8) Pottery glaze could be the result (6) Plucky American fellow going round back-street (5) Parts of the brain exercised by Opera Bastille? Public stage with section covered by garbage and booze Policeman sent up to secure border bend Punctual (2,4) Person of wide learning (8) Plea of being elsewhere (5) Professionals working to influence legislators (8) Piece of drapery left at the back of various seats (6) Part-owner? (5) Pilot required to take this post (3-4) Palatable old joke? (5,8) Pottery glaze could be the result (6) Plucky American fellow going round back-street (5) Possibly a pint of emulsion (5) Precipitation (3) Provide food (5) Putrefy (2,3) Parlance (5) Pitch (3) Planet (6) Publish record yield Prisoner gets medicine, perhaps, to obtain sense of right and wrong Public transport (3) Projectiles for weapons (abbr) (4) Plus (3) Practised covering vehicle in vermilion? (9) Promotes distributing sedatives across river (10) Pair avoid introduction to a work (7) Pests (informal) (9) Police team taking top off chain guard (5) Provided inverted crannies designed for gnomes? (10) Place associated with fever epidemic (6) Presented a rear view across a river that's cut off (8) Police finally after father who released a bull (4) Possibly steal the smallest amount (5) Painkiller found in Paris, perhaps (7) Perhaps eager to concur (5) Puddle (4) Piece of small shot (6) Penetrate (6) Perceive by touching (4) Person looking down barrel had to play along Puts back without thought and altogether foolishly (8) Producer whose business is expanding? (6) Pure wit went into this review (5,2) Possess (3) Purchase (3) Possesses (3) Panto character (4) Poster positioned without any sun at first caught light Publication awarding stars to eateries (8,5) Pet cat (informal) (5) Polaris (5,4) Ponies lone wolf disturbed all at the same time (2,3,4,5) President's affirmation in code (7) Picked up two words to do with roulette, which I detest (4,5) Prohibit style of beard (5) Press agency thanks ship (4) Polish again, only to get a snub (6) Permit (3) Popular newspaper (7) Piano player (7) Period leading to inevitable extinction Perfectly (2,1,1) Pastoral poem (5) Party: go to one to consume drugs (6) Put up painting of leaf (5) Portly bishops hold the prophetess back! (5) Plan to put on the screen (7) Powerful business leader (5) Polite, courteous (5) Prattling on, making sudden attacks about former monarch Portly bishops hold the prophetess back! (5) Plan to put on the screen (7) Powerful business leader (5) Polite, courteous (5) Portly bishops hold the prophetess back! (5) Plan to put on the screen (7) Powerful business leader (5) Polite, courteous (5) Pay homage to (6) Prone or supine? (5) Preparing to face bowler — out! (2,6) Priest in some religion (3) Peace or suffering round New York? (7) Perceive (5) Pig pen (3) Poker stake (4) Prose compositions (6) Punished author who supposedly prioritised catching hare, we hear (6) Present-day sage adapted old maxims (6) Putting slip in ballot box - it may resolve a moot point (7,4) Pigmeat (5) Partisan (3-5) Polish (4) Painter (6) Pressure to abandon ship? Take painter Plant of purple hue is in need of water, I fancy Party (informal) (5) Physical forms showing vital statistics! (7) Pronounce indistinctly (4) Pacifies (5) Perish (3) Possible cause of downfall of crazy family Prepares for the theatre with wine bottles emptied during drink Promise of partnership after politician displays desire Picked up instruction for starters and ingredient for pudding Plug that can connect two or more pieces of equipment to the same electric supply (7) Possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive (5,8) Protestors posted outside a building during a strike to encourage others not to go in to work (6) Playing techno, that man has a piano for a song (2,3,5) Puck and Tramp — perfect! (7) Pavement edge (4) Period of 10 years (6) Pen part (3) Perhaps a job for Dean of College - she worked in the Isle of Wight Plea for half open international agreement (8) Prophet (4) Paradise (4) Popular comedy item, though half-hearted Part of army, say, one with soldiers? Right about that Poems intended to be sung (4) Pull or throw with much effort (5) Pub diet? (5) Perhaps begged for a meal when lazy? (9,2,3) Political philosophy as an alternative to viagra is taken by some, but not all (9) Pointed tool (which killed Trotsky) (3,4) Plea for half open international agreement (8) Prophet (4) Paradise (4) Put off, he left port Prince Henry has iodine in medicine bottle Plain article brought into house Primate revealed by stream in part of India Pole playing a part in television or theatre Plea for half open international agreement (8) Prophet (4) Paradise (4) People waiting in line for a letter, we hear Pleasant-smelling (8) Prerequisite, necessity (11) Piled-up work (7) Precarious (2,4,3) Participant in computer pastimes (5) Papal headgear (5) Pinch and run (4) Pull over to identify urban district (4) Putin's ridiculous contribution (5) Possibly avoid client with farewell speech (11) Punctuation mark (5) Planet (7) Privy to (2,2) Panatella, for example (5) Prison room (4) Point a weapon (3) Pests in silver mine Painter of The Night Watch (9) Player's offence in court? (4,5) Precis of two books about dissecting fly (10) Poor condition of apologetic country (5,5) Protect, guard (6) Public speaker (6) Playing leapfrog, female ignored climbing-frame in garden Petty dispute (4) Poor chap tried going for almost nothing (4,5) Place to have food and gather (5) Peculiar collector's item given to American (7) Present age (5) Posh food (6) Providing many things at once — is no bum (anag) (7) Pole is three times wounded — he takes high risks (4,5) Prepare to find egghead in awful tragedy (3,5) Portable computer (6) Produce eggs (3) Price paid for lettuce and last of beetroot Put in prison one after the other, so we hear Perform a vocal duet in an American prison? Portable charcoal-burning brazier with a grill for cooking (7) Plaster for walls and ceilings (6) Presumably she wouldn't have voted for Brexit (6) Plaster over gashes used up, Charlie gathered (6) Poles placed around a number of ways (5) Provide exorbitant wages - with which industrial disputes are often concerned! (7) Power, force (6) Poke (4) Pimples (5) Purser is reeling in shock Press (4) Poem for the young (7,5) Professorial position? (5) Poles placed around a number of ways (5) Provide exorbitant wages - with which industrial disputes are often concerned! (7) Power, force (6) Poke (4) Pimples (5) Poles placed around a number of ways (5) Provide exorbitant wages - with which industrial disputes are often concerned! (7) Power, force (6) Poke (4) Pimples (5) Painters, perhaps, in dire straits Pet has no time ultimately for teacher Part of foot alongside claw Publication for the young (5) Plant that twines around others, smothering them in the process (8) Pub round back of village shortly to be renovated (8) Part of shirt about to sever (3,3) Pupil loses a pound to one who gets paid (6) Premium (5) Pitch (3) Pistol case (7) Prophets (5) Promote (9) Partner's steep parking charges (6) Pressure of rubber company making ten hollow samples (6) Perspire (5) Pick-me-up (5) Posy (7) Prize (5) Puts on (4) Perhaps a teddy bear, somewhat fed up? Penniless family seen in street Plant in sea, perhaps (5) Prickly plants (5) Pub game (5) Period of 24 hours (3) Part of speech (7) Pernickety (5) Prison sentence (4) Personal ambition that's a setback for the team Phosphorus is put on many bits of land Prepared slalom course, for example (3,3) Pry (6) Playful skip or leap (5) Primates (4) Plaything (3) Part of a lock, part with a spring Poles holding on – on something that spins continuously Plaza (6) Play a shot in the lead (5) Poet is fired (5) Planet (4) Plant ovule (4) Proverb (5) Part of Ulster recollected by Graham Perch or pole fixed in foundation Perhaps I belong in base Perforated (7) Poet is fired (5) Planet (4) Plant ovule (4) Proverb (5) Put up beams in the auditorium Painless treatment for dogs Projection in the neck (5,5) Poet is fired (5) Planet (4) Plant ovule (4) Proverb (5) Pleasure-seeker, curiously, might have done this Pol Pot country (8) Put together advance to break plot (7) Passion of East Ender trying to sound more tough (6) Presumably they will only strike when there's no security risk (6,7) Purchase (3) Pale purple colour (5) Pile (4) Poisonous plant — edible marine snail (10) Pamphlet (7) Plant of the pea family with clover-like leaves (7) Possible explosive bad mood stops Jack learning about religion (9) Possible crossword feature: article on setter (5) People stand to get them (5) Point the teas out (4) Press can take nothing in concerning intercession (9) Painting of whisky maker's existence? (5,4) Perceive (5) Painful (4) Police wrong to stop little nursery rhyme character Pass into law (5) Position taken, comment worthy of ridicule? (5,5) Pass horse, on climbing (5) Pattern emerging in rural location, having cut line in London (4,6) Post off (5) Perceive sound (4) Private evening party (6) Pungent (5) Picture puzzle (5) Pinch (3) Pudding about to be brought back for poor scholar Performing murder? Good! Protagonist hides somewhere in New Zealand Post-adolescent (5) Prompt move to Vietnam, avoiding north (8) Put the show on again, as the agent did (11) Provides three times as many young choristers (7) Post a bet (5) Prayer ending (4) Propriety (7) Primary source (6) Payment to author from people in palaces? Poser with poem written in 1050 Power of recall (6) Peculiar drink (3) Put the show on again, as the agent did (11) Provides three times as many young choristers (7) Post a bet (5) Plan produced by doctor getting behind Players crossing line move cautiously Paintings etc (7) Plant with purple, red or white dangling flowers (7) Pre-digital computer (6) Performer on ice (6) Part of safari sent up People in boats one rams at sea Person who looks foolish by attempting to look with it (7,6) Poetic word for 'soon' (7) Person in command (5) Panto character made to change Partly capturing Italian city Price — prize (5) Piece of true information (4) Problem-solver's headgear? (8,3) Pronged tool (4) Paper, large amount, for an appointment (4,4) Poor quality pile I donated to church (7) Picks up something essential to actual practice (9) Pen part (3) Partial or total darkness (5) Pace (4) Professional killer (6) Play ultimately lacking a little bit of spirit (4) Punctuation mark (6) Part of the qualifying match Pocketed equipment for a ball game (8,5) Particularly weak area (4,4) Popular Victorian opium-based painkiller (8) Party with dancing (informal) (3) Possibly into soul - that's the answer (8) Precious metal (6) Precipitous (5) Pallid (5) Plunders (5) Pair of performers (3) Period of darkness expected at first after energy cuts Port? Yes, foreign wine Possibly care for some land (4) Player's first game (5) Princess, bashful but very attractive Prone to gossip? (6) Puzzle first published in a British newspaper in 2004 (6) Pieces from a bursting shell (8) Police club (9) Public square with room for pedestrians (5) Personal contacting device (5) Present case for scholarly dissent (6) Prevent doctor taking care of adult as a temporary measure (7) Poetic movement's message largely accepted by spiritual leader (7) Problem — children (5) Producing a reasonable amount of money (7) Prone to 9? (6) Phantom (5) Perch (5) Pressed (6) Principal bullfighter (7) Protection for the head (6) Punctuation mark (5) Plunder (6) Panto character (4) Prosecute (7) Phantom (5) Perch (5) Pressed (6) Principal bullfighter (7) Protection for the head (6) Punctuation mark (5) Plunder (6) Panto character (4) Pay to carry on Principality ignoring capital drinks Pile of banknotes, say (3) Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (5) Proverbially calm stretch of water (8) Phantom (5) Perch (5) Pressed (6) Principal bullfighter (7) Protection for the head (6) Punctuation mark (5) Plunder (6) Panto character (4) People from Basra? Phone city in Alabama Part of a royal seaport in Portugal Pale purple (5) Punches salesperson upset by Foreign Office charges (10) Part of body overcome by chemical imbalance (4) Protection from sun on wild ground (6) Pets possibly calm — it's mad noise that is troublesome (8,7) Proposes job's outside India's capital (6) Perhaps dispel great anger through an atrocity (7) Prior to (6) Put flowers in this (4) Planet (5) Plate (4) Psalm about lights Please ask for umpire's decision Put off in high-altitude terrain Plotting (something) (2,2) Pig or fowl? (6) Parts (of a whole) (5) Picture king amongst group of pieces leading to check (6) Power gap filled by party leader (9) Place for wild animals always keeping a lot of the other ones upset (7) Put clothes on (5) Pull along (4) Poke (4) Perishes (4) Potatoes (5) Prima donna (4) Paid male escort (6) Protein substance — nut gel (anag) (6) Person fiddling with cold radiator (7) Physical movement of body from Viagra? Not excited with it (11) Pixie (3) Pinch (3) Precious metal (4) Pose a question (3) Performer who has light meals? (4-5) Perfect society (6) Planet (5) Pungent (5) Pick-me-up (5) Pig pen (3) Presenting an obstacle (2,3,3) Polite (in an old-fashioned way) (7) Permits (4) Playing field's to one side (5) Put it another way, agent needs free share (8) Planet (7) Perceive (5) Public speaker (6) Pistachio, for example (3) Polite, civic (5) Prison rooms (5) Purchaser (5) Put information on the internet (4) Poem that's outstanding, say (3) Planet (7) Perceive (5) Public speaker (6) Pistachio, for example (3) Polite, civic (5) Prison rooms (5) Purchaser (5) Poetic muse (5) Poem that's outstanding, say (3) Planet (7) Perceive (5) Public speaker (6) Pistachio, for example (3) Polite, civic (5) Prison rooms (5) Purchaser (5) Perhaps Shorty and Chalky commit identity theft? (9) Prize book received by Christmas (5) Political theory of some zany brothers? (7) Plants gun, if deceitful (5) Place Crete developed for vessel (10) Picture Rita fuddled after wine (8) Public disturbance on last cruise (6,6) Put up (5) Passenger ship (5) Picture puzzle (5) Publicise in an exaggerated way (4) Produce (5) Picture house (6) Painting of a person (8) Press (4) Pantries (7) Peruse writing (4) Pompous jargon (informal) (12) Party member in demonstration having to make haste (5,4) Prophet (4) Plant ovule (4) Primate (3) Provides food (6) Professional killer (6) Practice and study of government (8) Pity for another's misfortune (8) Policeman getting stoned, in a dreadful state (12) Person in Black Sea abroad catches old vessel (7) Parent into Jack Kerouac at last — it's On The Road (6) Pupil hasn't started rewarding activity (6) Praise former auction item given back (5) People without help for a girl (6) Perplex in a negative way? (7) Perhaps Sid felt smothered (7) Playful skip or leap (5) Plagiaristic jazz fan? (7) Put down again to be transmitted, we hear (6) Public relations officer examines objections (8) Pamphlet (5) Pick-me-up (5) Personnel (5) Pressing (6) Prepared (5) Plagiaristic jazz fan? (7) Put down again to be transmitted, we hear (6) Public relations officer examines objections (8) Pamphlet (5) Pick-me-up (5) Personnel (5) Pressing (6) Prepared (5) Plagiaristic jazz fan? (7) Put down again to be transmitted, we hear (6) Public relations officer examines objections (8) Pamphlet (5) Pick-me-up (5) Personnel (5) Pressing (6) Prepared (5) Point out sadly the leader isn't good enough (3,2,2,2) Punishment for being in good health and spirits? (4) Pulped fruit or veg (5) Plaything (3) Press into service in Chinese port (8) Pit shown up in urban settlement (8) Posy (7) Prayer ending (4) Parody, imitation (4-2) Paying for the service of dumping rubbish (7) Public houses are about to encourage vagrants (7) Private feud (8) Presumably it occupies the middle ground (11) Paper quantity (4) Puddle (4) Provincial (5) Public speaker (6) Postpone (5) Planet experiencing a change of heart (5) Pleasure craft (6) Painful (4) Produce eggs (3) Planet experiencing a change of heart (5) Pleasure craft (6) Painful (4) Produce eggs (3) Planet experiencing a change of heart (5) Pleasure craft (6) Painful (4) Produce eggs (3) Proverbial sayings with teeth? (4) Peruses writing (5) Put in context, entertainment has such a range (6) Put off when wrongly freed (5) Pretend it's what missionaries try to do (4-7) Pleasant French resort (4) Private evening party (6) Pitch (3) Pointed beard (6) Place, locate (7) Plant (4) Purchasing power common to an associated group of states! (6) Putting one's foot down when doing business round the East (8) Pledge oneself to perpetrate a crime (6) Potatoes (5) Podium (4) Play on words (3) Predicament (7) Purchasing power common to an associated group of states! (6) Putting one's foot down when doing business round the East (8) Pledge oneself to perpetrate a crime (6) Potatoes (5) Podium (4) Play on words (3) Predicament (7) Purchasing power common to an associated group of states! (6) Putting one's foot down when doing business round the East (8) Pledge oneself to perpetrate a crime (6) Potatoes (5) Podium (4) Play on words (3) Predicament (7) Prove it's not true brute has changed (5) Peace's way out (6) Prima donna (4) Price (4) Pig pen (3) Pressed (6) Personal integrity (6) Prises (6) Planet (6) Plunders (7) Pilot's compartment (7) Prison room (4) Person receiving money (5) Pen part (3) Piece of office equipment made of plaster (7) Pakistani city (6) Portly (5) People who sit in the van don't (4,1,4,4) Puts fellows ashore - they're not used to the sea (8) Puts on (4) Picture house (6) People who sit in the van don't (4,1,4,4) Puts fellows ashore - they're not used to the sea (8) Puts on (4) Picture house (6) People who sit in the van don't (4,1,4,4) Puts fellows ashore - they're not used to the sea (8) Puts on (4) Picture house (6) Plant container has different fertiliser (6) Player is not miscast as this distinctive character (11) People below the nobility (6) Pistol case (7) Presidential colour? (7,5) Punctuation ends without beginning orders (8) Public discussion while clothes are drying out? (6) Purchase (3) Put confidence in fund held for others' benefit (5) Paces (5) Prickly plants (5) Polite, civic (5) Perceive (5) Pub game (5) Protect (5) Plunders (5) Panicked and ran off without quiet father returning (7) Prime Minister of paradise? (4) Part of Mr Magoo's cartoon gets an Academy Award (5) Part of a golf course (7) Personal belongings (7) Play (5) Prose composition (5) Pacifies (5) Popular pet (3) Piece of music used by a reckless trapeze artist? (5) Permanently watery land (5) Paradise (4) Person's residence (3) Piece of music used by a reckless trapeze artist? (5) Permanently watery land (5) Paradise (4) Person's residence (3) Piece of music used by a reckless trapeze artist? (5) Permanently watery land (5) Paradise (4) Person's residence (3) Pop has written about a Greek poetess (6) Please get out and pass by (6) Private evening party (6) Place (3) Price (4) Prayer ending (4) Pointed tuftlike beard (6) Pointed tooth (4) Pronounce indistinctly (4) Present to view, exhibit (4) Potato (4) Policeman, slang (3) Prima donna (4) Perform (3) Pen fluid (3) Possibly train as a craftsman (7) Permissive characters? (7) Prepared (5) Pitch (3) Paris underground (5) Planet (7) Prepared (5) Pitch (3) Paris underground (5) Planet (7) Prepared (5) Pitch (3) Paris underground (5) Planet (7) Poster quickly amended (6) Play dishonestly (5) Painful (4) Paper quantity (4) Pushing on behalf of minor in guardian's care (7) Phantoms of the press, etc. (8) Prime position of tree on street (5) Peruse writing (4) Prison room (4) Prejudice (4) Population count (6) Perfect (5) Pants (5) Perhaps I can't earn when under hypnosis (2,1,6) Post that can kept or broken (11) Possibly ninety-ton unimportant person (9) Poor Ted is destroyed by a missile (7) Pig pen (3) Part of the theatre where people go to the pictures! (7) Prose isn't upside down (7) Produce of Bordeaux is unusually clear before the last of the port is added (6) Plunder (6) Part of the theatre where people go to the pictures! (7) Prose isn't upside down (7) Produce of Bordeaux is unusually clear before the last of the port is added (6) Plunder (6) Place on ship offering a bird's-eye view (5-4) People from Denmark (5) Premature (5) Parry precedes this counter-attack (7) Plant (4) Perfect society (6) Pith helmet (4) Precipitation (5) Part of book that could prove chilling? (5) Poet is a distributor of drugs (7) Picture house (6) Paradise (4) Poke (4) Purser is put out by bolt from the blue (8) Probability of disagreement? (4) Purser is put out by bolt from the blue (8) Probability of disagreement? (4) Purser is put out by bolt from the blue (8) Probability of disagreement? (4) Provides a route and makes no charge (5,4) Perfect concept followed by a learner (5) Puts up (6) Prises (6) Podium (4) Painful (4) Parrot type (5) Primates (4) Possibly married a lover (7) Permit (3) Press (4) Pretend (5) Phrases about angels (7) Proof (8) Primary source (6) Prepare to pray (5) Parsley, for example (4) Plea giving one bail, perhaps (5) Person getting on and coping (8) Pins are taken out of Iran (7) Possibly points to part of the engine (6) Plant that's always on hand? (4) People below the nobility (6) Planet (5) Point a weapon (3) Postpone (5) Plea giving one bail, perhaps (5) Person getting on and coping (8) Pins are taken out of Iran (7) Possibly points to part of the engine (6) Plant that's always on hand? (4) People below the nobility (6) Planet (5) Point a weapon (3) Postpone (5) Plea giving one bail, perhaps (5) Person getting on and coping (8) Pins are taken out of Iran (7) Possibly points to part of the engine (6) Plant that's always on hand? (4) People below the nobility (6) Planet (5) Point a weapon (3) Postpone (5) Part of the house used as artist's studio (7,4) Provides compensation about French country (6) Pen end (3) Plaything (3) Pig-pen (3) Pickling solution (5) Purchase (3) Pub is a bad hole to avail oneself of (8) Piles (5) Principal bullfighter (7) Plough (4) Pencil rubber (6) Pagan (7) Points to a girl to follow (5) Pale like a bird (5) Pugilist (5) Purchaser (5) Panics about a sailor making biscuits (9) Price of stocking could be so great (7) Puerile (8) Powerful (6) Panics about a sailor making biscuits (9) Price of stocking could be so great (7) Puerile (8) Powerful (6) Panics about a sailor making biscuits (9) Price of stocking could be so great (7) Puerile (8) Powerful (6) Pant (4) Percussion instrument (4) Put up (5) Pinch (3) Postman's apparel providing physical protection (4,2,4) Picture card (4) Poetry (5) Pen fluid (3) Pose a question (3) Perhaps Ed lost to the most senior (6) Playing old games can make you contented (8) Portion (5) Policeman (3) Put one's foot down and made an impression (7) Paper woven into nearly all the clothing (7) Permit (3) Pitch (3) Perform again (4) Popular pet (3) Point one away from one (4,6) Person against work correcting prose (7) Previous (5) Pelvis (3) Postmortem examination (7) Pal (4) Point one away from one (4,6) Person against work correcting prose (7) Previous (5) Pelvis (3) Postmortem examination (7) Pal (4) Point one away from one (4,6) Person against work correcting prose (7) Previous (5) Pelvis (3) Postmortem examination (7) Pal (4) Polish image of an Italian stream (7) Pistachio, for example (3) Proportion (5) Playthings (4) Prosperity comes from a change in the law (6) Pride can stem from these awkward situations (12) Part of a meal from Ireland is here (4) Prepared (5) Plant type (4) Push to the newspaper office (5,4) Precipitation from Iran? (4) Possibly has a knock-out hat (5) Parade when April arrives (5,4) Pig sound (5) Protective eye covering (5) Pelmets restyled for service establishments (7) Permission to make a bequest (5) Primary source (6) Pelmets restyled for service establishments (7) Permission to make a bequest (5) Primary source (6) Pelmets restyled for service establishments (7) Permission to make a bequest (5) Primary source (6) Prostrate through untruthfulness? (5) Paradise (4) Picturesque (6) Past events (7) Prance (6) Permitted by law (5) Plant ovule (4) Professional payment - dispatch mine back inside (7) Pressed clothes (6) Putting shepherd god in charge creates sudden fear (5) Perspires (6) Produces eggs (4) Poke (4) Principal character taking fashionable but illegal drug (6) Part of a plane, for example - a wrecked plane (5) Pinch some territory before getting frail (5) Prisoner's room (4) Put on (3) Potato the seaman put back in pastry dish (6) Presumably not the way in for this sort of game (7) Pardon me being involved in nasty mix-up (7) Prise (5) Photo book (5) Precipitation form (3) Puts one's feet up (5) Potato the seaman put back in pastry dish (6) Presumably not the way in for this sort of game (7) Pardon me being involved in nasty mix-up (7) Prise (5) Photo book (5) Precipitation form (3) Puts one's feet up (5) Potato the seaman put back in pastry dish (6) Presumably not the way in for this sort of game (7) Pardon me being involved in nasty mix-up (7) Prise (5) Photo book (5) Precipitation form (3) Puts one's feet up (5) Person in command (3) Put your foot down! (5) Patient restaurant employee (6) Pariah joins striking actors (7) Paradoxically they may have seats in them (6) Private teacher (5) Pigmeat (5) Prairie wolf (6) Possibly soaring like an Italian woman (7) Playground item (6) Parrot type (5) Perfect (5) Pantihose (6) Protect the 100 remaining (5) Permission to go (5) Principal (4) Pull along (4) Part of a fight and then a whole one - it's fair entertainment (10) Perish (3) Pale purple (5) Pen fluid (3) Part of a fight and then a whole one - it's fair entertainment (10) Perish (3) Pale purple (5) Pen fluid (3) Part of a fight and then a whole one - it's fair entertainment (10) Perish (3) Pale purple (5) Pen fluid (3) Partly deaf and are for high jump (4,2,7) Put money into fashionable clothing item (6) Posh food (6) Prise (5) Particles of cut wood (7) Processed meat (5) Plant from another batch (4) Prophets (5) Pinafore (5) Pit (4) Preserve after death (6) Permit (3) Pinch (3) Prime cut of beef (7) Paper handkerchief (6) Provides some relaxation in the spring (7) Parched with heat (4) Pastry dish (3) Provides some relaxation in the spring (7) Parched with heat (4) Pastry dish (3) Parched with heat (4) Pastry dish (3) Pops tags around temporary substitutes (8) Part of the leg lower when young? (4) Produces an outline of game, say (6) Put flowers in this (4) Plant (4) Provide support beneath the peg (8) Part is to be adapted for country lovers (8) Perish (3) Planet (6) Provincial (5) Pries about cutlery items (6) Pen part (3) Produces eggs (4) Pistachio, for example (3) Provide food (5) Prepared (5) Parson finds man had been lying down (8) Permanently watery land (5) Peruse writing (4) Previous (5) Public finished with the end of the ballot (5) Permit (3) Powerful businessman (5) Playthings (4) Public finished with the end of the ballot (5) Permit (3) Powerful businessman (5) Playthings (4) Public finished with the end of the ballot (5) Permit (3) Powerful businessman (5) Playthings (4) Put your foot in it (4) Professional cook (4) Peruse article in colour (4) Place where dates are processed (5) Part of a fight in a ring (5) Promise of rough passage as mayor sets out (6,3) Pinch (3) Poetry (5) Phase (5) Pansy's other name (5) Preserving choice fish (8) Possibly earn a place in the sporting world (5) Perfect society (6) Perform (3) Plays for time (6) Portent (4) Period of 24 hours (3) Pelvis (3) Puts one's feet up (5) Paved area (5) Puts one's feet up (5) Paved area (5) Puts one's feet up (5) Paved area (5) Penetration able to be seen (7) Perhaps resenting it being fascinating (11) Player's first game (5) Pigmeat (5) Part of speech (7) Perfect (5) Pudding ingredient (4) Permit (3) Pioneering political group? (7,5) Put clothes on again to get better (7) Pronounce indistinctly (4) Public speaker (6) Petty gangster (7) Put rubbish in this (3) Professional examiner who expresses his dissent (9) Panatella, for example (5) Pull with a rope (3) Purchase (3) Privy to (2,2) Puts out a seat and has a meal (4) Perspiration (5) Poetry from overseas (5) Persevere with the reformed priests (7) Prepared (5) Pinch (3) Poetry from overseas (5) Persevere with the reformed priests (7) Prepared (5) Pinch (3) Poetry from overseas (5) Persevere with the reformed priests (7) Prepared (5) Pinch (3) Patient caretaker? (5) Plan to get old money? (7,6) Plays no piano songs (4) Pleases terribly, but it passes (7) Previous (5) Payment as hill tenant, seeing flood coming (7) Print for the permissive society? (11) Party, slang (4) Pudding ingredient (4) Poker state (4) Prime minister? (7-5) Pulls with a rope (4) Pistachio, for example (3) Places to sleep in the county (4) Possibly debar facial hair (5) Possibly slain with tacks (5) Part of a film in which Stephen Hendry takes part? (5) Priests take in many on August 1st (6) Primary source (6) Pen end (3) Primate (3) Part of a sect or society to which members are attached (5) Pigeon house near the top of the roof (5) Put somehow into unusual ecstasy (7) Propriety (7) Parrot type (5) Part of a sect or society to which members are attached (5) Pigeon house near the top of the roof (5) Put somehow into unusual ecstasy (7) Propriety (7) Parrot type (5) Part of a sect or society to which members are attached (5) Pigeon house near the top of the roof (5) Put somehow into unusual ecstasy (7) Propriety (7) Parrot type (5) Perch (5) Policeman, slang (3) Prisoner's room (4) Poke (4) Perform again (4) Procrastinate (5) Paper quantities (5) Piles (5) Planet (5) Pallid (5) Pencil rubber (6) Pantihose and shirt out of sight (6) Picture house (6) Posed a question (5) Piece of school furniture gives comfort to the learner (5) Profligate deserted (9) Pattern composed of French symbol (6) Public transport is almost bankrupt! (3) Paradise (4) Proverb (5) Pugilists (6) Particle of matter (4) Precipitation (5) Prior to (6) Possess (3) Pig pen (3) Precipitation form (3) Plant part (4) Plant ovule (4) Precipitation (5) Prior to (6) Possess (3) Pig pen (3) Precipitation form (3) Plant part (4) Plant ovule (4) Precipitation (5) Prior to (6) Possess (3) Pig pen (3) Precipitation form (3) Plant part (4) Plant ovule (4) Paradoxically, a spiritless community (5,4) Peel (4) Produce eggs (3) Possibly cited a proclamation (5) Permits, tolerates (7) Post off (5) Public pool (4) Private evening party (6) Punctuation mark (5) Pelvis (3) Principally (6) Primary source (6) Person's private book (5) Part of a capital place for worship (6) Precipitation (4) Principal (4) Proverb (5) Play for time (5) Person from Rome (5) Petty lie (3) Principal (4) Proverb (5) Play for time (5) Person from Rome (5) Petty lie (3) Principal (4) Proverb (5) Play for time (5) Person from Rome (5) Petty lie (3) Place where The Spinners turn up (4) Plunder (4) Principal (5) Public estimation (6) Person from Poland (4) Pair of performers (3) Player's first game (5) Provide food (5) Pleasantly cold (4) Poorly (5) Plant left inside the lid (6) Place is arranged for part-time policeman (7) Push-bike (7) Prose composition (5) Personal integrity (6) Precise contribution to reflex actions (5) Pressed (6) Precise contribution to reflex actions (5) Pressed (6) Precise contribution to reflex actions (5) Pressed (6) Put villa in an awful state to no avail (3,2,4) Plant (4) Pimple (4) Proof (8) Period of instruction (6) Presents (5) Prophet (4) Pamper (6) Pouring out of a meeting (7) Possibly charged for a supply of electricity (7) Possibly pertain to an artist (7) Prise (5) Perch (5) Plunders (5) Practical house at Westminster seen round (6,5) Paper said to vanish (9) Planet (5) Processed meat (5) Point of a pen (3) Poker stake (4) Portion (7) Photographer (7) Provide food (5) Personal pride (3) Possibly the heart of the planet (5) Perhaps bad seed is given lower value (7) Pinafore (5) Prison rooms (5) Paper handkerchiefs (7) Possibly the heart of the planet (5) Perhaps bad seed is given lower value (7) Pinafore (5) Prison rooms (5) Paper handkerchiefs (7) Possibly the heart of the planet (5) Perhaps bad seed is given lower value (7) Pinafore (5) Prison rooms (5) Paper handkerchiefs (7) Puts down the melodies (4) People will be out for the count when this takes place (6) Pierces with a horn (5) Puddle (4) Pudding ingredient (4) Playthings (4) Performing well when filling in questionnaire (2,4) Poke (4) Puts on (4) Principal (4) Paradise (4) Proportion (5) Pressed clothes (6) Posed a question (5) Propriety (7) Pitch (3) Private evening party (6) Plunder (7) Prepared (5) Point a gun (3) Plane in trouble in Asia (5) Possibly forces tiepin into a book illustration (12) Planet (5) Peepers (4) Pickling solution (5) Plane in trouble in Asia (5) Possibly forces tiepin into a book illustration (12) Planet (5) Peepers (4) Pickling solution (5) Pastoral doctor is curt (6) Places indicated by directions on the signpost? (5) Potatoes (5) Prisons (5) Pig pen (3) Play in small village (6) Presumably his job involves not letting go (6) Petty snub (6) Please become dead to the world (6) Purchased (6) Paved area (5) Profits made in London, for instance (7,5) Picks different teams and transfers one's loyalties (7,5) Perspire (5) Plant type (4) Prise (5) Period of 24 hours (3) Propriety (7) Pugilist (5) Pry (5) Precipitation form (3) Prayer ending (4) Propriety (7) Pugilist (5) Pry (5) Precipitation form (3) Prayer ending (4) Propriety (7) Pugilist (5) Pry (5) Precipitation form (3) Prayer ending (4) Plume (7) Pigheadedly hold back in jam (8) Praise is partly a reflex to love shown (5) Pitch (3) Paradise (4) Prosecute (3) Passenger vehicle returns from trade centre (4) Pace (4) Painful (4) Proportion (5) Postage label (5) Permit (5) Place for a break (6) Power extracted from fruit (5) Percussion instrument (10) Pretend to sing (4) Proverb (5) Pen fluid (3) Place for a break (6) Power extracted from fruit (5) Percussion instrument (10) Pretend to sing (4) Proverb (5) Pen fluid (3) Place for a break (6) Power extracted from fruit (5) Percussion instrument (10) Pretend to sing (4) Proverb (5) Pen fluid (3) Pet set off, leaving a vegetable (3) Prime cut of beef (7) Point a gun (3) Put up, build (5) Portly (5) Pilot's compartment (7) Puddle (4) Pen love letters out and pen in (7) Peter has rival in fight for South American water (5,5) Plan or contrive secretly (4) Principal bullfighter (7) Puts one's feet up (5) Planet (5) Perceive (5) Part of a sheet typifying English painter (4) Promoted team relegated - that's topsy-turvy (6-4) Player's first game (5) Pointed beard (6) Package (6) Painful (4) Pungent (5) Posh food (6) Piece of work for man of patience (3) Precipitation (4) Party, slang (5) Piece of work for man of patience (3) Precipitation (4) Party, slang (5) Piece of work for man of patience (3) Precipitation (4) Party, slang (5) Pity as hymn comes out with similar feelings (2,8) Perfect (5) Precipitation form (4) Plays for time (6) Parched with heat (4) Poor (5) Photo book (5) Paper handkerchiefs (7) Protect (6) Period of 24 hours (3) Pass over wild region (6) Praised when made remark about damaged lip (12) Papers to be filled in by groups of pupils? (5) Point me out a spice (7) Points out part of engine (6) Prison room (4) Postulate (5) Plug, bung (7) Performing animal consumes a drink (7) Pointer on a timepiece (4,4) Police officers, slang (4) Performing animal consumes a drink (7) Pointer on a timepiece (4,4) Police officers, slang (4) Performing animal consumes a drink (7) Pointer on a timepiece (4,4) Police officers, slang (4) Proprietor of beastly place near the eastern tip of Scotland! (5) Plant part (4) Press clothes (4) Plant type (4) Part, subdivision (6) Part of 9 Across to take around for sale, we hear (5) Polish, maybe - certainly European! (6) Prominent structure we located in rocky height (5) Prying person (4,6) Planet's path (5) Public transport vehicle (3) Prickly bush can be found in bog or semi-desert (5) Printing the correspondence column? (11) Permit (3) Planet (5) Paint-mixing board (7) Prophets (5) Procedure regularly followed (6) Paint-mixing board (7) Prophets (5) Procedure regularly followed (6) Paint-mixing board (7) Prophets (5) Procedure regularly followed (6) Puts some flags down (5) Particular inclinations to write church music (9) Private evening party (6) Person from Denmark (4) Polite, courteous (5) Paris underground (5) Potato (4) Pig pen (3) Portly (5) Practical joke (3-4) Post money for gamble (5) Planet (7) Passerine songbird (7) Photographer (7) Pinch (3) Post money for gamble (5) Planet (7) Passerine songbird (7) Photographer (7) Pinch (3) Post money for gamble (5) Planet (7) Passerine songbird (7) Photographer (7) Pinch (3) Post money for gamble (5) Prise (5) Photograph a kind of dragon (4) Pass on (5) Past events (7) Poker stake (4) Protective eye covering (5) Perfume container could be found in a chest (6) Produces current character unit assessments (9) Postage labels (6) Pencil rubber (6) Perform (3) Picture within another (5) Possess (3) Perceive sound (4) Pace (4) Petty lie (3) Performance there at the Globe, perhaps (7) Pantry (6) Perfect (5) Performance there at the Globe, perhaps (7) Pantry (6) Perfect (5) Performance there at the Globe, perhaps (7) Pantry (6) Perfect (5) Poe is apt to be confused, but that's appropriate (8) Picture house (6) Plant (7) Purchaser (5) Petty details (6) Premium (5) Pass required for the officer (3) Precipitation (5) Pledge to raise expectations (7) Person's residence, slang (3) Private evening party (6) Pious platitudes (4) Pinafore (5) Party for levelling out class differences? (6,7) Possibly trees to favour (7) Pitch (3) Painful or weak (4) Pig pen (3) Party for levelling out class differences? (6,7) Possibly trees to favour (7) Pitch (3) Painful or weak (4) Pig pen (3) Party for levelling out class differences? (6,7) Possibly trees to favour (7) Pitch (3) Painful or weak (4) Pig pen (3) Prose composition (5) Plant (5) Put in a different form (7) Pulling in the direction of part of the aircraft (6) Pick-me-up both ways (7) Pile made by social workers (3-4) Poor attempt to follow a friend (6) Present age (5) Put on (3) Patella (7) Private teacher (5) Petty officer took tarnished shield and rubbed it (8) Place where I take a saint, being a holy man (10) Prosecute (3) Parched with heat (4) Planet (5) Paper handkerchief (6) Powerless actor gets suspended (9) Plant ovule (4) Perspires (6) Paradise (4) Prayer ending (4) Protective eye covering (5) Possibly ape is reddish-brown (5) Punishing plane perhaps (5) Port not touched (4) Part, subdivision (6) Police vehicle (6,3) Primary source (6)
