Clues Starting With

v

Viral internet item

Vote of opposition

Vehicle engine cover half made of such steel? (6)

Volume of whispers picked up (4)

Viral internet item

Vote of opposition

Varity of gypsum

Venetian magistrate

Very profitable

Very appetising (informal) (7)

Very large indefinite number (informal) (7)

Vermin control that’s screwed some rat up?

Voice, for example

Very excited about whisky

Vessel whose cargo is targeted by soldiers?

Vintage stockings (6)

Violent anger (4)

Veto about to stick! (5)

Victor gets an embrace and nothing more (4)

Very light rain

Vinaigrette, for example (5,8)

Village and fishing port in Highland, Scotland on Loch Broom

Virginia has first prospect

Vicar with ale brewed for royalist supporter (8)

Very small amount or margin

Vapour from hot water (5)

Very much liked to make a fuss with Communist following (6)

Very good fans, nothing less - fans of 10?

Vegetable convention, perhaps, held around Southern French city

Val takes it to be important

Very deep chasm

Varied people who take the plunge and go east (7)

Vulnerable, sensitive (6)

Venetian magistrate

Victoria’s spirit that’s pure 14

View from a theatre seat, say (9)

Vigour, informally (3)

Venom bound to stuff a bunny (8)

Very hard, inert element; symbol Ir

Vessel to contain storm?

Vileness, putrid, spreading in a day

Vacuous compassion I expressed after the writer tumbled over

Variety of wheat with a high gluten content used to make pasta

Venice? (anag) (6)

Very thin and bony

Vessel containing one last bit of pale amber liquid (5)

Voice, for example

Virginia —, Secretary of State for Health from 1992-95

Vessel shows skill

Vulgar supporter upset female

Venomous snake (5)

Vertical pillar or support

Valley in N Argolis, ancient Greece; site of a biennial athletic competition

Volunteers lied about being followed

Viktor —, 1935 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles, doubles, mixed doubles and men's team gold medallist

Viewpoint right for sportsman

Viewpoint right for sportsman

Virtuoso rounds lake and medium whirlpool

Valley area underneath emptied into rivers (4)

Volte-face, mentally speaking (6,2,4)

Venomous snake (3)

View or glance (6)

Vehicle to leave its load

Vehicle to leave its load

Very bad indeed (7)

Vehicle I’d taken round river, upset female figure

View or glance (6)

Vaulted recess in a church

Voice, for example

Voice, for example

View or glance (6)

Vulnerable or unprotected part

Variety of wheat with pale red kernels cultivated as grain for horses

Very old crack found in strongbox by freak

Value; earn (5)

Very shortly going to

Very unlikely (6)

Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot

Variety of long-grain Indian rice used for savoury dishes

Viscous substance used in road-making (3)

Very corrupt senior type (7)

Value puts pressure on crop

Very fashionable (2-5)

Victory? Sore loser back in touch is claiming one … (7)

Vehicle has one that’s useless

Vicky —, Best Actress BAFTA TV Award winner for 2010 drama This Is England '86

Victor, after food, becomes provider

Venus becomes celebrity after dusk

Variety of lettuce with a long slender head

Voice, for example

Victor gets western part of target

Vessel used when making soup (8)

Variety of chalcedony with alternating black and white parallel bands

Very short skirt worn by a ballerina

Village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; birthplace of explorer David Livingstone

Very happy with story that's upset editor

Vile stapler somehow given expensive veneer

Vagabond guards range

Varnish — he calls (anag) (7)

Vital to carry card with name to donate this? (6)

Very hot without right current

Virginia finds cover official

Very anxious (1,3,2,6)

Variety of eating apple with a pale green skin

Very well and appropriate baffle, as if playing inside (3,2,1,6)

Very excited about whisky

Vincent —, director, co-writer and star of 1998 comedy-drama film Buffalo '66

Very gregarious type (5,6)

Very small amount of insect in tin (7)

Vehicle turning up to meet plane containing Canada's foremost citizen (7)

Vidkun —, minister-president of Norway from 1942-45

Virginia finds cover acceptable

View potential customer

Violent outcome from Recife (6)

Verified what could be measured (4,4)

Variety of wheat with a high gluten content used to make pasta

Vertical pillar or support (6)

Very hard inert element; symbol Ir

V S —, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

Vertical pillar or support (6)

Vertical pillar or support (6)

Vehicle turns round

Very short hairstyle worn by women such as Josephine Baker in the 1920s

Vehicle accessories — OK for cars (anag) (4,5)

Vijay —, Indian tennis player who acted in the films Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Octopussy

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Villainous ensign in the William Shakespeare play Othello

Very early, having time

Vehicle with five doors and a lot of space (6,3)

V C —, West Indies Test cricketer who took 5-93 against Australia at Georgetown in 2003

VIP's report? (3,5)

Very good stars showing blemishes (7)

Violent confusion

Variety of tangerine originally grown in Japan

Very fit — also dim (5)

Venomous snake that reputedly caused the death of Cleopatra

Valuable things (6)

Variety of liquorice (3,5)

Very productive

Violation of the rules in football

Very particular (5)

Valentino —, winner of the 2008 and 2009 MotoGP World Championship

Vijay —, winner of the PGA Championship in 1998 and 2004

Victory sign changes

View from another wing, beneath the lower part (6,7)

Vessel (expensive to buy and maintain!) (5)

Vital organ (5)

Vindictiveness (5)

Vessel said to have grounded on Mount Ararat (5,3)

Very light wood

Very little Brahms and Liszt? (6)

Very large narrow-necked bottle, often with a wicker cover (8)

Variety of basalt found in Victoria, Australia, used as a building stone

Vacate it, using trigger

Void described by bard

V-shaped stripe

Vapour from hot water (5)

View or glance (6)

Very bad article in French account of past events

Vanity Fair author (9)

Variety of turnip (5)

Very cold poles for birds

Vacancy for launch

Verify the rebuff (5)

Verify the rebuff (5)

Volcanic island in Indonesia partially destroyed in 1883

Very excited about whisky

Verify the rebuff (5)

Very enthusiastic study in painting (6)

Victor —, Belgian architect considered to be the originator of Art Nouveau

Very Liberal women labouring to secure victory promise (6,3)

Very extrovert principal wearing fancy shirt with flourishes (7)

Vic —, comedian who married model Nancy Sorrell in 2003

Visitors speculate about time

Violent disorder (7)

Variety of gypsum

Volume measurement

Valuable commodity (5)

Vessels brought back for game

Viral disease affecting children also called infectious parotitis

Very keen (to go?) (6)

Vessel built by Noah in the Old Testament

Vulnerable, sensitive (6)

Vicious person (9)

Value new sceptre

VIP on panel is a dish

Vehement or widespread protest

Virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology

Vicious dog (3)

Vehicle part worn round waist

Very poorly fed (4-7)

Victory on a river promises to be different

Vagrant we held in capital

Village in Vaxholm, Sweden; site of a quarry noted for its rare earth minerals

Visualise limousine with daughter, perhaps the Queen of Hearts (7,4)

Volcano starts to erupt terribly near Africa (4)

Vital cover one must leave (4,6)

Vengeful group that is wrapped in winter clothing (6)

Very little time (6)

Viktor —, 1935 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles, doubles, mixed doubles and team gold medallist

Vehicle in traffic, initially following another

Volley of shots from widely spread team (9)

Volley of shots from widely spread team (9)

Very small freshwater fish (6)

Volley of shots from widely spread team (9)

Venomous snake (3)

V S —, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

Vladimir —, author of the novels Lolita and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Valet shows where cash is delivered during prohibition (6)

Very hot or stifling place

Vegetable also called Chinese cabbage

Virginia to allow servant

Vegetable last seen in larder — a beauty!

Very small gnat with top of tail showing (6)

Very typical example

Vehicle test for roofless car

Very hot place to be confined in — so tax web (anag) (8)

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Value puts pressure on crop

Virginity somewhere in Berkshire

Versatile eccentric pulls a rope

Very old boxer turning up — there you are!

Vigilant dealer taking part

Vessel that returns blood from the head (7,4)

Vessel shows ability

Very hot without right current

Vexing article about ginger

Victory was doubly his (7,6)

Victory was doubly his (7,6)

Vegetable brought back in bottom of boat

Vessel too short for waterways

Vivacity of Bizet and Rossini in operatic overtures

Value for money (4-9)

Verona production featuring Romeo went on for too long (7)

Very strong person (5)

Very — large — epic (informal) (4)

Very strong person (5)

Venomous American chess player opening with sacrifice of knight (5,5)

Vastness, enormity

Virginia finds cover acceptable

Visibly astonished (4-7)

Volume turned up after seabird bites head of injured auk (9)

Volunteer to remove top from box

Very hurt (3,2,3,5)

Visitor numbers (8)

Verse from Roderick

Vexed about YMCA moving tree

Very small amount of money

Villain appears day after day in tree

Very happy upholding story by journalist (6)

Village hospital has charm but not suitable for everyone (6)

Very long or tiresome

Very hot without right current

Very legitimate request (7)

Very small annual with white flowers having a mainly coastal distribution within the British Isles

Vessel for flowers

Vikram —, author of the novels The Golden Gate and An Equal Music

Vessel set in motion

Vilify a number of Romans breaking ceasefire

Volunteers and politician forming compact (4)

Vegetable product used in food manufacturing, beauty products, and as biofuel. (4,3)

Verbally, one suddenly attacking country (6)

Violeta —, president of Nicaragua from 1990-97

Very early, having time

Venetian prince

Vigilant dancing in Swan Lake? (2,4,4)

Victor pursues money, being an earner

Venting of emotion (8)

Viking raid — no help is secured by hooter (5)

Vital organ (5)

Vegetable — drink (6)

Viewer more adventurous — what's being screened? (8)

Viewer's screen's made of metal with authentic coating (7)

Valley in N Argolis, ancient Greece; site of a biennial athletic competition

Value new site with friend

Vehicle about to appear on right

Very dry, or boring

Virginia has first look

Very excited about whisky

Valuable things (6)

Variety of plum (9)

Vicious dog (3)

Village near Wells, Somerset, noted for a nearby limestone cave

Vicar's assistant (6)

Vicar obliged to hold tree (5)

Very tall building

Virginia has Nero moving city

Viking vessel (8)

Volcano in SW Italy on the Bay of Naples

Voice, for example

Victor misses top of target

Very excited about whisky

Very extensive garden's first seen in shade

Vessel with wine is shaken (6)

Victims of ridicule making objections audible (5)

Victor —, rugby union prop whose 1992 England Test debut was against Canada

Vague family member with hard heart

Valuable bit of information (6)

Very surprised to find publicity about labyrinth (6)

Villainous ensign in the William Shakespeare play Othello

Virginia's batting on both sides — to no avail

Vehicle that's hit, but not at first

Views from master with time to go into particulars (9)

Very keen pupil pulls up

Variety of lettuce with a long slender head

Very foolish (4-7)

Very pleasing, delicious

Victory sign under construction in old battle

Venetian boat (7)

Voltaire exuding anger could become a sort of green (5)

Victor —, actor who played the male lead in 1949 film drama Samson and Delilah

Valeria —, third wife of Roman emperor Claudius I

Voluntary decision not to act

Venomous snake (5)

Visibly, it's where drinkers are left in charge (2,6)

V V S —, India Test cricketer who hit 281 against Australia at Kolkata in 2001

Ving —, actor who played Marsellus Wallace in 1994 crime drama film Pulp Fiction

Vase to get by merit, we hear

Virginia —, winner of the 1989 Badminton Horse Trials

Very excited about whisky

Vessels of the Royal Navy in America (4)

Valved brass musical instrument with a penetrating tone

Vicious dog (3)

Vessel contained by vessel! (4,2,1,6)

Very hard inert element; symbol Ir

Very quietly putting beer around fruit

V-shaped cut (5)

Vegetable served up by inn outside Northern Ireland retreat (9)

Very hot situation: cubicle door finally blown (8)

Very antiquated — invalidate UN (anag) (12)

Very hot without right current

Veils to conceal flowers

Venice trips to see show (6)

Violent confusion (6)

Very English trebles, song surprisingly Italian (8)

Venezuela's capital (7)

Vincent —, director, co-writer and star of 1998 comedy-drama film Buffalo '66

Variation of chess involving two players, three boards and a referee

Venezuela's capital (7)

Voice, for example

Vera managed to dance

Venezuela's capital (7)

Very much depressed, man's time in game (4,5)

Volkswagen buzzer let loose (6)

Vicious act (9)

Village tragedy (6)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Varied selection (5)

Viral disease of dogs (9)

Vegetable that's cold and tough

Vehicle taking lad to get a large container

Villain who tricked Othello into murdering Desdemona (4)

Visitors to Sicily should see it before coming back (4)

Vegetable; main ingredient of the soup borscht

Venomous sort of chatterbox losing face (7)

Venomous language (7)

Verb and noun together hide a preposition (4)

Vote to return to the dance (6)

View obstructed at first? Hold tight!

Volatile or lively

Version of soccer

Vivid — acute (7)

Vessel for cut flowers

Voice, for example

Vehicle not transporting box

Very hungry bird with mouse, rejecting head and tail

Very strong person (5)

Very excited about whisky

Vow to put pressure on sill

Vitally important (9)

View, glance (6)

Variety of gypsum

Vegetarian's showpiece

Very slow girl eats up single calorie (7)

Virile politician gets cannabis? (4)

Very hard worker under the first 10 (7)

Ventures — quips (7)

Vase-like vessels

Veins around creepers

Very bad lad Freud cured

Vessel with graduates aboard

Vera organised dance party

Vow to put pressure on sill

Varied stars rejected food around old city (10)

Very keen to make a comeback as a singer (4)

Verse from Epsom?

Violent criminal (7)

Vagrant — fishing boat (7)

Vapour from hot water

Ventilates sari, perhaps

Visual aid gets royal person (not king) backing doctrine (5-3)

V —, cricketer whose 2012 West Indies Test debut was against Bangladesh at Mirpur

Viking taking part in invasion or settlement

Volunteer no longer liking queen?

Vain prisoner in the chair, so to speak

Viewpoint right for sportsman

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Vote with workers in messy situations — their constituents are diverse (8)

Vacation in alcove

Violent local windstorm (7)

Vital organ (5)

Visiting many places in Canadian province for us (2,4)

Victims of wars less involved with negotiator about end to confrontation (4,11)

Veer around after Catholic pupil: smart

Vets manage with small underwear

Vessel taking care of flower

Very good marks, for example, in test

Verified fact (5)

Very excited about whisky

Vocal organ (6)

Vladimir Nabokov's novel about Humbert Humbert's obsession with a young girl (6)

Vessel off course? (7)

Vegetable left in coach for insect

Very unusual (13)

Virginia finds cap acceptable

Very inferior (informal) (6)

Very tall person (5)

Viewing organ (3)

Very tall person (5)

Viewing organ (3)

Very tall person (5)

Viewing organ (3)

Variety of lettuce with a long slender head

Val —, author of the novels Blue Genes and The Distant Echo

Vessel for small fruit

Volley of gunfire

Volcanic island in Indonesia partially destroyed in 1883

Visit registered prophet

Vividly shocking (5)

Vets idea for concocting a tranquilliser (8)

Very deep chasm

Vice perhaps affected inspiring student (5)

Vladimir —, 1956 Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m gold medallist

Variety of chalcedony with alternating black and white parallel bands

Vegetable, we hear, that's scorched

Very hot yet was composed (6)

Verse has singular beat unknown by leading academic (6)

Very light wood

Vigorously, deviously or subtly

Vegetable of the brassica family with purplish leaves (3,7)

Venetian blind part

Victor learned to extract uranium for green stones (7)

View of the set perhaps (7)

Variety of wheat with a high gluten content used to make pasta

Very good speed for a very bad sailor (6)

Very good speed for a very bad sailor (6)

Very good speed for a very bad sailor (6)

Violent behaviour (5)

Value fools to a point (6)

Virginia Woolf novel — Kathleen Hale's Marmalade Cat (7)

Very small nocturnal fox inhabiting deserts of Arabia and N Africa

Vehicle for hire (7)

Virginia has cover that's legally effective (5)

Very large lorry (10)

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Very busy legal expert initially ditched one doing filing? (10)

Vassal fed, swallowing tablet after pork pie (8)

Very large lorry (10)

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Village in South Ayrshire, Scotland; birthplace of poet Robert Burns

Very large lorry (10)

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Vigorous campaign (7)

Vigorous, I shake the talc around (8)

Very strong person (5)

Vegetable is raw, needing seasoning (5,6)

Visible understanding? (7)

Venuste —, 1996 Olympic men's 5,000m gold medallist

Very early, having time

Version of prose tale that's a bit of a bloomer! (4,5)

Vitamin deficiency

Vladimir —, president of Russia from 2000-08 and since 2012

Valuable copier ordered by American

Vital component of an internal combustion engine (10)

Verse of a poem (6)

Voice changes a lot

Victor —, Danish pianist and comedian who died in 2000

Vagrant has the French stamp

Very positive man serving from the East in hotels (4)

Very bad criminal hid silver with no end of liquor (8)

Vase concealed by furniture (3)

Volcanic island; second largest of the Hawaiian Islands

Viewed part of the act, say

Very old university — get irritated about ending of generous grant (9)

Venetian baroque composer, died in Vienna 1741 (7)

Valley (of which there are many in Yorkshire) (4)

Vet raised broken plug

Visit father at home

V, X or C? (5,7)

Violent confusion

Village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; formerly a centre for runaway marriages

Visitor had an idea, we hear

Violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground

Very shortly going to

Villainous ensign in the William Shakespeare play Othello

Very nearly (6)

Veg giving little brother dreadful colic

Vessel with greenish fluid in hand on top of palm (9,4)

Valuable thing (5)

Venetian boat (7)

Very bad doctor attached to feudal arrangement

Volunteers to get poet a jacket

Very important person (5)

Valiant (anag) — European (7)

Very soon (3,6,3)

Vision aids (7,6)

Village north-west of Cambridge to which a women's college, established in 1869, moved in 1872

Very poor baby, small but avoiding extremes

Valiant baritone's last seen in mixed choir

Very happy once with taxi worker (9)

Venue for sporting events (7)

Vessel, one that suddenly goes up and down? (7)

Vegetables from parks (6)

Venetian painter — shade of red (6)

Vegetables from parks (6)

Vegetables from parks (6)

Virginia has first look

Vehicle parts left amid tools

Very upset (informal) (3,2)

Vacuous Carry On Henry's opening is carefree (7)

Vigour, force, etc. (6)

Very tall building

Volunteers fast to get gift

Very small amount of dessert

Virginia in a temper to cause devastation (6)

Vegetable organism round the East of interest to astronomers (6)

Very strong person (5)

Virginia in a temper to cause devastation (6)

Vegetable organism round the East of interest to astronomers (6)

Very strong person (5)

Very brief moment (5,6)

Virginia in a temper to cause devastation (6)

Vegetable organism round the East of interest to astronomers (6)

Very strong person (5)

Victoria —, Spanish actress who played Lorraine de la Pena in 1994 comedy-drama film Jimmy Hollywood

Virginia gets animal to depart quickly

Vague family member stripped bark

Valetudinarian's drink (3)

Vessel after it has lost its cargo? (7)

Violet-blue (6)

Virtuoso solo passage near the end of a piece of music

Vision of Barney nursing sore wound (9)

Valley's width in metric unit (3)

Very deep chasm

Variety of lima bean with large pale flat edible seeds

Very cold and resentful

Vessel found in Zambia or Tanzania

Vulnerable, sensitive (6)

Very excited about whiskey

Vet's demeanour strangely enterprising (13)

Vicar's upset collecting one pound in coins (6)

V J —, England cricketer whose 1982 Test debut was against Pakistan at Leeds

Viral disease affecting children also called epidemic parotitis

Vigorously contest red card, but acknowledge one's error (5,9)

Vase-like vessels

Very strong person (5)

Vehicle’s emergency extra

Vicente Blasco —, Spanish author of the novels Mare Nostrum and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Very difficult and confused situation (8)

Very edgy about whiskey

Volte-face (5-4)

Virgin soldiers accepting assistance?

Vicissitudes (3,3,5)

Vainly free, perhaps (3,7)

Viewers not starting? That's right

Vehicle required for advancement?

Velvet-like fabric (6)

View affects space and time

Very fierce about women using bad language (8)

Voted parrot-fashion? (6)

Vegetable protein developed from fungus used in cooking as a meat substitute

Vincent —, French composer of the opera Fervaal, which premiered in 1897

Victory over old worry

Vast form of barrels

Volcano back in Canterbury

V-shaped stripe

Very warm sheltered place

Veers away from some poetry

Voice, for example

Variety of tangerine originally grown in Japan

Very enticing cooking, fried too (2,3,3)

Very keen leader dismissed by king of Israel

Vagrant gets a coach

Vocally celebrate destiny

Various birds on roof of edifice (7)

Very dangerous poison (7)

Venerable revolutionary I satisfied in bed (7)

Volcano in SW Iceland that last erupted in 2000

Viewers last in queue? Certainly!

Valuable things (6)

Vinegar, say, has right to be strong

Vital statistic

Very small piece (of anything) (5)

Vessel filled with hock for fathers (6)

Very tall person (5)

Visitors speculate about temperature

Very funny sex with a Dolores (6)

Voice, for example

Very excited with whiskey

Victorian taxi (6,3)

Very slow speed

Vegetation of a particular region (5)

Violent racist reformed by Democrat (7)

Vast sea west of Australia

Vigilant prince consort ditches bishop (5)

Volume finished with old size of paper (6)

Viewers excited at first? That's right!

Very fast job, as the reformation (9)

Vacating house before nuclear meltdown is very hard (9)

Vessels that liven up parties (3-8)

Viewing organ (3)

Village in France; scene of a 1346 victory by the English in the Hundred Years' War

Variety of wheat with pale red kernels cultivated as grain for horses

Violet almost changed colour

Very French (4)

Very young child

Views small supplies not starting (7)

Vehicles caught leaving concerning crime (5)

V S —, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

Villainous ensign in the William Shakespeare play Othello

Village in Somerset housing an 11th-century castle

Vessel in felucca or tanker (5)

Vessel opening after day (7)

Vessels in decay loaded with iron on banks of river (3,7)

Vessel in question south of Cuba, originally (4)

Visitor to ancient city is first from train

Variable stayed constant

Vehicle ride broke down, getting conveyed (7)

Vehicle I got rid of has ceased to exist

Vessel that may be put in bin?

Vehicle followed by second in French comedy, treat with superficial sweetness (10)

Vehicles drawn from a vehicle amongst others (8)

View, finally, that is most extensive

Vagrant wore drab clothes

Viewer's following celebrity astronomer (9)

Very tall building (10)

Vehicle beginning to cross a river

Variety of agate with different colours in layers (4)

Variable resistance, so threat is disguised (8)

Vowels heard in comfort

Variable resistance, so threat is disguised (8)

Vehicles coming and going in a particular locality (7)

Variable resistance, so threat is disguised (8)

Vagrant seen before parking vehicle

Volcano in Vietnam

View or glance (6)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Visit judge, ever the foppish fellow (8)

Very wrong to drink drop of Glenfiddich, a couple of fingers (1-4)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Verse for the young (7,5)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Virtue of Patricia, exceptional niece (8)

Violent action: coup leading to control by enemy forces (10)

Virtuous type to go on bike or walk? (6)

Venture into sordid areas (4)

Viper gives the total? (5)

Vase-like item (3)

Very strong person (5)

Very strong person (5)

Very strong person (5)

Vessels for baseball players

Vessels which, coming up, may be waiting for the wind (6)

Vehicles honked, first travelling to the rear (5)

Variety show (5)

Virginia upset young female subordinate

Very old, and swimming in Tyne

Verse set to music for high fliers?

Vessel seen earlier outside church

Very good buy (4)

Vital organ (5)

Variety the spice of long adventure films?

Variable level holds key when reversing fundamental theory (10)

Violet almost changed colour

Villain of operas Callas appeared in

Vigilant, but breaking down later

Very light brown (4)

Vulgar supporter returns at start of football (4)

Vampire actor, he punctured child's skin and drew blood (7)

Visions of 500 packets of paper (6)

Valiant energy in new choir

Very much out of shape

Valuable commodity (5)

Valuable commodity (5)

Valuable commodity (5)

Virginia briefly gives vent to hypochondria (7)

Vessel seen in Victoria or Tasmania

Visible location for a tavern, we hear

Virgil's first language: poetry

Very tall person (5)

Volley of gunfire (5)

Victim of offhand attempt to abandon centre (8)

Vessel for flowers (4)

VIP's sea trip producing no reaction

Victim of trickery expected to hold power

Varnishes Otto's agreed to put on slates (6)

Video deception by leaders in dubiously elected executive presidencies fooling all, kindling enmity (8)

Very cold — incisive (6)

Vehicle has all soldiers heading off with speed in upper region (3,5,4)

Violent storm (7)

Vessels taking sheep over river

Vexed in church before reading letters

Virginia acted strangely and quit

Vehicle's way over left side of carriageway, by a river (9)

Valuable rock for cutting and polishing (8)

Very large pair regularly exposed in the Sun (5)

Views hole: golf club’s not right to tackle flag (7)

Very much the opposite (6)

Vertical supporting post (9)

Vain image unit is dull (13)

Vast expansion of G & T — one tucks in (5)

Viewing organs (4)

Vehicle taken right across Manchester, initially

Violated (anag) (8)

Very many of you on the beach?

Vogue featuring answer about eclipse (9)

Violin bows (12)

View or glance (6)

Victor did, and returns same as 18 (3)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Very tall person (5)

Very busy certainly with head-to-toe treatments

Very little time to look (5)

Vegetable baked in its skin (6,6)

Vivid railway worker's uniform

Very latest (2-2-3-6)

Violent person (5)

Various actors who lived in Yugoslavia (6)

Very hot curry (8)

Venetian magistrate naked on vacation, showing butt

Visual adjustment subject to forcible separation (8)

Very hot — or very nippy? (10)

Venomous snake (5)

Very small piece of cloth turns into fruitcake in illusion

Very keen to do something (7)

Viral infection (9)

Violent attacks (8)

Very keen on acting with coaches and a lorry (5-6)

Very fast-moving river current (6)

Very keen on acting with coaches and a lorry (5-6)

Vice and anger could become a source of resentment

Vintage director's filthy material

Very keen on acting with coaches and a lorry (5-6)

Victorian hiding small crystal

Vigour I am contributing to a country (9)

Very brief affair around end of February

Vexation, distress (7)

Venture to secure unknown amount of money for social enterprise

Very distressed copper knocked back plonk

Vampire beaten by sides of ricotta with fresh vegetables (9)

Votes, official but incomplete, and blunders

View through rose-tinted spectacles — see Iliad (anag) (8)

Vagrant went first and got trodden on (8)

Visible in the distance (6)

Vagrant went first and got trodden on (8)

Vagrant went first and got trodden on (8)

Vegetable producing sticky stuff in shelter from wind (6)

Vital organ (5)

Vapour of boiling water (5)

Voices heard in paper, reportedly? (5)

Victoria's position (7)

Victoria's position (7)

Victoria's position (7)

Very black bit of porridge in vessel that serves the ship

Vessel's brace that starts creaking 5D

Very large piece of meat saved to take back (4)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vehicle with seats for about 10 passengers (7)

Volleyball player races into spectator (6)

Vague exercise is what one might do with fat fingers

Valedictory utterance (4,5)

Vamoose! (informal) (4,2)

Very attractive male ready to dance (6)

Vehicle will travel as freight (5)

Vagabond polishing off last of beer and a port

Verb form — I fit in vine (anag) (10)

Very pleasant detailed figure in computer game (5)

Very enjoyable sandwich tasting, sharing one left

Viral disease (5)

Vikings coming from north or south-east (5)

Vessel NATO designed to carry second missile

Very popular bar more insolvent?

Very tall person (5)

Very disappointed (4,2,1,6)

Vast extent of land area is lost without uranium (7)

Victory for one girl in vessel

Very keen to be entertained by bog-standard entertainers

Very delicate material provides comfort

Vegetable wine's gone over seat (7)

Vehicle back on the road or under it, possibly (6)

Vessel used for brewing (3,3)

Very fat or fleshy (5)

Vessel used for brewing (3,3)

Very fat or fleshy (5)

Vessel used for brewing (3,3)

Very fat or fleshy (5)

Venetian transport (7)

Venomous snake (3)

Veiled legend in grand finale (6)

Virgin, say, feeling on edge

Very little consolation! (4,7)

Vehicle on last journey to pick up hikers here, finally

Vehicle, say, in track event getting withdrawn (6,3)

Very disorderly (7)

Very serious (informal) (7)

Vague impression (6)

Vertical pipe inside a building (5)

Verbose in speech supporting tongue action (6)

Volkswagen with answer for something red and Italian?

Vandal toppled crane that's shrouded in fog (9)

Vase-like receptacle (3)

Vet ran out of the inn (6)

Valuably commodity (5)

Very dark brown or black (5)

View or glance (6)

Villain we roughed up with bros

Very good! (informal) (5)

Vegetarian — robs our hive (anag) (11)

Various flares needed by the company out of doors (2,6)

Various flares needed by the company out of doors (2,6)

Victor Grey maybe skips second drink

Various flares needed by the company out of doors (2,6)

VIP's moving appearances in public (10)

Valuable commodities (6)

Vicious dog (3)

Vandal, one revealing plot following detective's case (9)

Vandalism may be wonderful

Visionary's italicised translation (10)

Verbally control pets and come down heavily (4,4,3,4)

Variation on a Haydn theme: Hearts Neglected to Set a Match Date (4,3,3)

Voracious fish — bad RC aura (anag) (9)

Very young child (4)

Very difficult task (informal) (7)

Vital organ (5)

Very dirty fighting? (3-9)

Vital organ (5)

Vagrants given transport to outskirts of Paris

Visionary, prophet (4)

Vital organ (5)

Vagrant has nothing to put on top of cooker (4)

Vague relative has a right

Very large vehicle actor might strive for (5)

Vote against (3)

Very nearly (6)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vessel for flowers (4)

View, finally, that is most extensive

Varied characters Croat actor played, for example (7)

Very small can with yellow front

Volcanic rock turned up by little creatures

Very bad letters from Lamb, say

Vicar takes bucket outside to come out on top

Vaudeville (5,4)

Virtuous acts he arranged (6)

Virtue! My word! (8)

Very seldom (6)

Vacuous American? Very much so! (3,3)

Victory by monarch with one eye closed (7)

Very tall person (5)

Violent mental confusion (8)

Very loud — girl patients (anag) (12)

Victory by monarch with one eye closed (7)

Very tall person (5)

Victory by monarch with one eye closed (7)

Very tall person (5)

Velvet-like fabric (6)

Venezuelan capital (7)

Value more highly (6)

Very unpleasant engineer least seen in British yard (7)

Vital organ (5)

View or glance (6)

Very eccentric (informal) (5)

Vehicle towing a vehicle - or rather the towed vehicle (7)

Visual aid (abbr) (5)

Very unusual escape route? (3,3)

Vital organ (5)

Very tall building (10)

Viewing organ (3)

Vessel I had given to Eros (5)

Very big soldier and worker (5)

Very big soldier and worker (5)

Very big soldier and worker (5)

Vehicle having to leave freight (5)

Vegetables often taken by the doctor (5)

Verdict justifying the search? (7)

Vetoing too much government (10)

Vetoing too much government (10)

Vetoing too much government (10)

Valuable thing (5)

Vicious dog (3)

Very strong person (5)

Very tall person (5)

Vicious dog (3)

Vicious dog (3)

Vicious dog (3)

Version of football (4-1-4)

Vegetable decay on vehicle (6)

Victor gets an embrace and nothing more (4)

Victor gets an embrace and nothing more (4)

Victor gets an embrace and nothing more (4)

Various frogmen (6)

Very strong person (5)

Vaulted area beneath the Highland farmstead (10)

Vaulted area beneath the Highland farmstead (10)

Vaulted area beneath the Highland farmstead (10)

Veronica can get a move on. OK? (9)

Verve lacks nothing in strong blow (4)

Vagrant on a merchant ship (5)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Vain, too, about round of applause (7)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Very hard for a pop star (7)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Very nearly (6)

Validate the same bill for a second time (2-5)

Venomous snakes (4)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Vapour from hot water (5)

Virginia briefly gives vent to hypochondria (7)

Venomous snake (3)

Visionary put on A1 course (7)

Very small, informally (5)

Visionary put on A1 course (7)

Very small, informally (5)

Visionary put on A1 course (7)

Very small, informally (5)

Van came out to see the Palaeolithic person (7)

Valuable commodity (5)

Vulnerable, sensitive (6)

Val and Reg get together on the grit (6)

Val and Reg get together on the grit (6)

Val and Reg get together on the grit (6)

Viewing organs (4)

Vital organ (5)

Very wise man sees Sun and Moon out together (7)

Very top treatment for being poor (7)

Very wise man sees Sun and Moon out together (7)

Very top treatment for being poor (7)

Very wise man sees Sun and Moon out together (7)

Very top treatment for being poor (7)

Victory in Europe was attainable for the green representative (9)

Very short notice given to a girl (3)

Vital organ (5)

Vehicle on a road made of glass, possibly (7)

Valuable commodities (6)

Venomous snake (3)

Very happy or cheerful (6)

Various wines will produce virility (5)

Vegetable fat could be old, I see (4,3)

Vulnerable, sensitive (6)

Very strong person (5)

Variety of mineral required for those working on the track (7)

Vessel for flowers (4)

Vegetable shoot (6)

Victor loses his head nearer the centre (5)

Val leaves at half-time to bury... (5)