| something to start with, as opposed to former love | 50 |
| spied confused telegram that's vile | 35 |
| singer thus in favour of holding a note | 39 |
| sounds wrong to get by with fainting fit | 40 |
| steven van ......: long-standing guitarist with bruce springsteen's e street band. | 82 |
| some draft sources | 18 |
| stepping on it helps you go up | 30 |
| spot in front of a stream? | 26 |
| Surprise search | 15 |
| Snippet, bit left | 17 |
| Soldier with long service | 25 |
| Short-term enthusiasms | 22 |
| Share in venture | 16 |
| Small slab of butter | 20 |
| Shapeless mass, pulp | 20 |
| Secured a shoe | 14 |
| Small quiet river | 17 |
| Slide back, revert | 18 |
| Someone who is intolerant, dogmatic | 35 |
| Severe weather | 14 |
| Series of regular occurrences | 29 |
| Strand of hair, maybe | 21 |
| Shine, especially star | 22 |
| Sharp-pointed fastener | 22 |
| Small salad root | 16 |
| Sparkle, twinkle | 16 |
| Sopranos, altos, tenors, basses | 31 |
| Shrill, high-pitched voice | 26 |
| Severe woe, distress | 20 |
| Small brochure | 14 |
| Shrank from fearfully | 21 |
| Star providing heat and light | 29 |
| Stack things | 12 |
| Score standard in golf | 22 |
| Slender breed of hound | 22 |
| Silt, slime | 11 |
| Solidified water drip | 21 |
| Strip of roadway | 16 |
| Solution containing salt | 24 |
| Smarten up, tidy | 16 |
| Somewhere for reflection? | 25 |
| Steady water flows | 18 |
| Something frightening | 21 |
| Suddenly fled, especially horse | 31 |
| Silly absurd talk inf | 21 |
| Stained a different hue | 23 |
| Spells of dejection | 19 |
| Splashes liquid | 15 |
| Strong telling-off inf | 22 |
| Sucks up to | 11 |
| Single unit computer | 20 |
| Smirk sweetly | 13 |
| Small one-roomed flat | 21 |
| Step down or step up again! | 27 |
| Space gives layabout a little turn | 34 |
| Similar to half-common story | 28 |
| Set off to find ET on a television inside | 41 |
| Struggle for Lester, drunk after whiskey | 40 |
| Standard; regular | 17 |
| storage medium disrupted by waveform is badly damaged | 53 |
| sensible cap restricts university courses to begin with | 55 |
| sheep and working dog changing places | 37 |
| socket on preamp regularly dropped connection | 45 |
| slip from medicine ball that hurt patient | 41 |
| subs may be fools losing heart | 30 |
| study of space attached to golf and food appreciation | 53 |
| select actors after school production for internet transmission | 63 |
| singer and civil-rights activist simone | 39 |
| scottish girls | 14 |
| so far | 6 |
| second half of an inning | 24 |
| steal from | 10 |
| seasonal novelty song that begins, “i was working in the lab late one night” | 80 |
| seldom seen | 11 |
| short but intense training program | 34 |
| small amount | 12 |
| sonic ...... (sound made by a high-speed aircraft) | 50 |
| states, slangily | 16 |
| stein-like beer mug | 19 |
| sf-based nba team | 17 |
| seat for a ventriloquist's dummy | 32 |
| something flipped by a reader | 29 |
| small parts of big machines | 27 |
| school, we’re told, is demolished | 35 |
| spoke about india after the man paused | 38 |
| stuff that’s made for mussolini? | 34 |
| so among classicists | 20 |
| sadly fearless tones make others sit up and listen | 50 |
| starts endless low grade rows | 29 |
| strangely, dieting is no problem for diner | 42 |
| so careless, cooking stews | 26 |
| swimmer tucking into wine swayed unsteadily | 43 |
| seam establishments | 19 |
| sch. with campuses in eunice and alexandria | 43 |
| swerve | 6 |
| spots for splashing | 19 |
| start to sink? | 14 |
| speck on a hearth | 17 |
| starter starter? | 16 |
| souvenir with short sleeves | 27 |
| sword's handle | 14 |
| shook hands on | 14 |
| state bird of hawaii | 20 |
| supply with food | 16 |
| soccer chant word | 17 |
| some rap performers, for short | 30 |
| splitting costs? | 16 |
| somewhat leggy stripper almost in place? | 40 |
| sudden attack advanced: bishop into wine endlessly | 50 |
| support given about engaging eastern poet | 41 |
| sailor binding leg – old man up for procedure across the atlantic? | 68 |
| socialist penning article on yen to hand | 40 |
| solemn person from belgrade maybe reduced debts | 47 |
| some codger playing golf is abandoned – this includes dash for the tee | 72 |
| something in the ocean sank with ease unfortunately | 51 |
| street in a rough part of town | 30 |
| strong speller? | 15 |
| spinning woodshop tool | 22 |
| sophs, in two years | 19 |
| some cushioned inserts | 22 |
| serviceable | 11 |
| sandwich cookies with lighter wafers and less creme | 51 |
| small drink amounts | 19 |
| spectacles that may spook spaniels | 34 |
| sparkly decoration is good? rubbish! | 36 |
| spot where a bishop works? | 26 |
| split apart | 11 |
| salsa option, familiarly | 24 |
| swallowing things? | 18 |
| showed deference, in a way | 26 |
| stole | 5 |
| some breakfast pop-ups? | 23 |
| speechless | 10 |
| solicits | 8 |
| some social workers | 19 |
| state of annoyance | 18 |
| st. patrick's place, for short | 30 |
| some postal rtes. | 17 |
| sudden change of course | 23 |
| sandwich supplier | 17 |
| sweet-singing bird | 18 |
| sen. majority in 2023 | 21 |
| southwestern people | 19 |
| sandwich made using a press | 27 |
| simple earlobe adornments | 25 |
| singer ...... pop | 17 |
| screenplay framework | 20 |
| sausage, not the spanish hotel | 30 |
| savage upset italian in the undergrowth | 39 |
| stepped on a vague amount around stadium | 40 |
| scarecrow screened with mum, zero wiggled about | 47 |
| soldiers meet noisy writer to celebrate | 39 |
| skirting around love with relative | 34 |
| sport needing a six-footer? | 27 |
| such a decree splitting a medal is really painful | 49 |
| study article in church law | 27 |
| snack shifted to one sea chest | 30 |
| section due to lose leader | 26 |
| sticker put on dummy bird | 25 |
| string not quite double | 23 |
| sailor sees nothing in mammal lover | 35 |
| see study about something inside? | 33 |
| silly old lady smothers jack with charm | 39 |
| shrub's secretion left one higher | 33 |
| small chuckle not unusual when about to attack | 46 |
| sometime eastender joins fools afterwards | 41 |
| snow in vessel displaying confection | 36 |
| seize power at university, holding on in france | 47 |
| soviet force embarrassed bv host | 32 |
| spike holding back a television language | 40 |
| sports presenter from lancashire i'd upset | 42 |
| second tea or coffee | 20 |
| sitcom add-ons | 14 |
| stick to five lines | 19 |
| short break unnervingly kept, no one learned | 44 |
| sell one's odd fruit | 20 |
| swimmer embarrassed by unhelpful clue | 37 |
| soldier to use explosives on crafty raider | 42 |
| shortly, vague european to enter tavern | 39 |
| so old-time dancing range | 25 |
| secret place for diy, he got out of awkward spot | 48 |
| sign of omission perhaps, too tricky | 36 |
| single sound keeps wayward regent in country | 44 |
| so cheerful when throwing line in | 33 |
| some swimming to end of bay is drawn out | 40 |
| six-footer misleading dope ian from perth? | 42 |
| small bank employee speaking of the stars | 41 |
| savage heifer? a little bit | 27 |
| self-contained shoe, single square inside | 41 |
| shatterproof as a foreign holiday around isle | 45 |
| suspend fish on end of rod | 26 |
| satisfied poor noah with large toxic compound | 45 |
| skip back through vent i'm opening | 34 |
| shabby number with a drab sort of lining | 40 |
| slice, good and hot, kept at bay | 32 |
| stop in desert with or without caravan | 38 |
| slogan of game family | 21 |
| slightly wrong advice when rearing young leaders | 48 |
| short of energy, add cold metal | 31 |
| sweden to have insufficient spare capacity | 42 |