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keep going | Don't stop monarch entertaining another Poe, for example (4,5) |
back | Support a play or a player (4) |
footsie | It's played in secret - by legend and son, that is (7) |
landmarks | Recognisable features, with a thousand in exaltation (9) |
thames | Controlled by banks, this divides capital (6) |
beryl bainbridge | Nothing right from Booker, sadly, that is by darling B, the author! (5,10) |
carouse | Party with two runners? (7) |
aesthetics | Number lacking article on study of arts (10) |
normalised | Nation into old language, Germany as usual (10) |
bonkers | They're thumping mad? (7) |
streptobacillus | Germ in toilet, pal scrubs away (15) |
red star | Tailless warbler is ideological symbol (3,4) |
presentations | Shows Prost and Senna tie when racing (13) |
plumb line | Lead on a string (5,4) |
hedged | Worked in fields, but got laid off (6) |
tall tale | Everyone in the race gets a drink, which is hard to believe (4,4) |
thorough | Careful nevertheless to hold on to gold (8) |
streak | Take off, with all taken off (6) |
bridges | Links good, when embraced by some forming unions (7) |
infestation | Swarm of relaxed, fit Etonians (11) |
leewards | A nautical way to pull fish up by pole (8) |
bubbly | Overflowing with good spirits and champagne (6) |
gotcha | Barbarian arresting head of conspiracy with a "You're nicked!" (6) |
la ronde | Leonard is upset by film with Simone Signoret (2,5) |
dry land | Firm ground for the US in the twenties (3,4) |
nitwitted | Ulster was a tease, being foolish (9) |
cross fertilise | Create extra strain for a biologist (5,9) |
camberwell green | Start crossing at caution, clearly before signal to proceed in London (10,5) |
chubby | Caroline's first partner, a man of substance (6) |
eremitic | Reclusive boy taking issue to heart (8) |
lie downs | Idle criminal has siestas (3,5) |
split end | Lock trouble revealed by open door? (5,3) |
broadly speaking | Generally having a regional accent? (7,8) |
scamps | Monkeys: small groups of like-minded individuals (6) |
in hand | Being prepared to receive cash thus in payment? (2,4) |
empower | Authorise soldiers to return holding prisoner (7) |
promenades | Walks made person fit (10) |
aesthetic | Each test one plays is artistic (9) |
river trout | Four in awful terror finding note on something to eat (5,5) |
voice | Sound round gripped by gripper (5) |
fibre optic | Brief topic set out in cable (5,5) |
loophole | Means to avoid quiet little vacation in Cornish town (8) |
grimms | Brothers putting together macabre writing (6) |
sacred ibis | Wild seabird is stealing heart of dicky bird (6,4) |