Clues Starting With e Easy to operate (4-8) Expert commentator (6) Excited? Silver-plated goblet, two thirds off! (4) Entangle (7) Even though (6) Each year end increase is an obstacle for auditors (6) Empty (of) (6) Explosive stuff (9) Eagle never crossing valley (4) End of scarf covered by moist part of cloth (4) Experiment involving long container (3,5) Eventually commit oneself (4,3,6) Excursion (6) English actor, Charles, b. 1946 (5) Easy reading – e.g. taut thriller – I ordered (5,10) Extravagant promotion (4) Eating (anag) — Moroccan spiced stew (6) Eloquent, sliding in car on ice (10) Extremely upset about snake, an unseen attacker (1-4) Endurance, suffering toenail rot (10) Empty seat next to nobleman's finally sat in by church founder (2,5) Edible fat emulsion — fighter who uses his head? (6) Egypt is regularly overturning complaint (4) English bowler moves around leg — wicket falls! (8) Exaggerated military attention to appearances (4,3,6) Employer's cat second to be taken (4) EastEnders tough guy is upset — that's plain (6) English playwright sure to leave university (4) Employee taking notes? (7) Echo about coastal inlet (7) Eradicate (9) Emotions (8) Exhausted (4,4) Everyone at university about to appeal (6) Exceptional whistle-blower is great on turf (10) Electric lamp (4) Edward VII's father (6,6) Eradicate (5,3) Ex-director of the Russian Federal Security Bureau, b.1952 (5) Engagement (9) English following type of stock car (9) Extremely ambitious politicians: one of them killed Shakespeare's Cleopatra (4) Enclosed by what pyramids must enclose (4) Expression of indifference (5) Eager (4) Exaggerate (6,2) Enduring stars in stage terms? (7) Emit cry of pain close to mummy, looking rather sickly (7) Engineers in open hut worried at that point (9) Entryphone (informal) (6) Edible flatfish (5,4) Expression of hesitant agreement (informal) (2-3) Exercise from a standing position and back, spreading arms and legs (7,4) Engraving in low relief on a brooch or stone (5) Eschewing even bits of theory, create lines of verse (6) Educated learner's initially expelled, with poor grade repeated (8) Exact straight line passed over centre of gravity (4) Emu I lift from the bottom entertains hip insider? (5) Evening things out, removing wrinkles at last (5) Elementary stages (of the alphabet?) (abbr) (3) Enthusiastic experts on computers etc (abbr) (7) Enormous (4) Excessive enthusiasm (5) Enrich soul performing a stage routine (6,4) Europe perhaps able to control movement (9) Erratic motion around Lagrange point as revealed by satellite (7) Experienced uplifting drugs like 1 down? (8) Elbow possibly cut by stake not a sporting injury (7,6) Exaggerated performance of car? Admits being misled (9) Ethereal (4) Ex-monarch of Persia (4) Extraordinary student I observed in class (6) Easy-going (4-4) Excessive maleness? (8) Embed Mike into one factory (7) Edgy and easily upset (6,6) Exodus was one of these with surging Red Sea put asunder finally (10) Edible root (5) Elite group in an organisation (1-4) Explain inclusion of tragic old man in contest (5,2) Elizabethan frill (4) Expose to ridicule (7) Ecstasy (7) Envy, resent (8) Eye infection (4) Example of animated epic with humans chasing monsters, ultimately (8) Extract from psychotherapist's article (3) End of equation should = 0 (6) Efficiently brief (5,3,5) Egotist from South America thus raced back (9) Execute dance, with Romeo standing in for Victor (7) Endless clues for Rod's basket and tack (see below) (6-4-5) Even in case of forgery one paper appears twice (5-5) Epigrammatic Japanese poem (5) Endless spin in many institutions starts around copier (8) Extremely hungry (8) Extremities of planet full of spirit (7) Earlier (6) Effort (7) European royal family has swamped Britain with revolting food (8) Evil king to fall (4) Everyone here is put on by firm (7,7) Everybody having bottoms raised, hands down (3,4,2) Exhausted (5,3) Engrossing thriller of a book (4-6) Extensive (4) Eager trainee losing end of decider on points (7) Ephemeral nature of rotting nectarines (10) Enrolment (12) Entrance or exit (6) European Organisation for Nuclear Research (4) Eats possibly, as some in France outside home (5) Exchange of views (12) Explode, as fool stands on foot (2,3) Examine permits for slots (7) Experience essential to keeping resort modern (7) Elegy awful, Gray initially admitted (5) English runner participating in Jakarta Marathon (5) Examine (7) Equal (5) Erstwhile; formerly (7) Entertaining company (6) Eat around six? Wonderful! (6) European travel: journey is a gratifying experience (3-4) Emphasise policy must follow European articles (9) Elaborate charade about time left for city feature (9) Extremists — cut fingernail (anag) (7,6) Everybody let son and daughter cut grass on 1/11 (3,7,3) Each master eats pastry (6) Effects (7) Elaborate on line in bill, leading man to appeal (6,3,5) Exile keeping unruly racists in order (9) Eighth planet from the sun (7) Elgar (anag) (5) Eight-sided polygon (7) Economic downswing (5) Easy win (4-2) Essential element of Depression: onset of hunger (4) East Midlands town doctor set child free (12) Eggs, when split by line, part (4) European region's loud people being grounded (8) Extremely sharp (7) Exercise authority (4,3,4) Excessive loss of water from the body (11) European with present trouble grasping English divine command (3,5,2,5) Established religious ceremony (4) Extraordinarily powerful article Poirot was on to (9) External route diverted (5) Error in casting Cinderela? (8,7) Exploited (4) Express statements of resistance in French and English (3-4) Eg including this artist is superficially damaging (5) Engrossed; hellbent (6) Earliest form of modern human in Europe (3-6,3) Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (5) Engrained dirt (5) Elated (8) Essential sign in heart oddly ignored (5) East German in mature comeback (7) Enough said, every now and then, on match (8) Entirely lacking (6) Everybody returns to embrace old woman (4) Everything under the sun I ever recollected (8) Emasculate (5) Exceptionally cold and definitively negative (7) Exist longer than (7) Enforces one's authority by coming down hard (6,3,4) Extremely disappointed; thoroughly fed- up (4,2,1,6) Excessively focussed on one area, rewriting adverse policies (15) Exchange of prisoners rejected (4) Ex-vice president good to go once more (4) European peak (3) End fuel crisis as required (7) Emperor is to keep sleeping, interrupted by lion (8) Examinations of any sales subject to corruption (8) Extremely talented person (7) Enormous honour presented by Home Counties (5) Equipment army used to imprison resistance (3,4) Embarrass person of substance when lot includes forgery (3,5) Expose bias on television, where radical thinking may take place (7,3,3) Example of punctuation almost unprecedented in official statement (10) Eccentric dispute in delta region (8) Excess (4) Enraged Indiana bank crushes strike (8) Emend a text (4) Evening party (6) Euphoric; cock-a-hoop (6) Eject (4,3) Exhaust me, returning to America retired (8) Encourage German to enter naked (5) Examine boss on the end of slavery (5) English physicist, remembered for his law of gravitation, d. 1726 (6) Entitlement (5) Elegant comfort (6) Extraordinary singer's last appearance live (4) Easily disgusted (9) Express exception (to) (5) Estimate based on experience — deduce sea gust (anag) (8,5) Educating ___ , 1980 Willy Russell stage comedy (4) Eventually finish parody, scratching head (3,2) Errant Don, I, with a fiasco for the fans? (11) European or American in book title (4) Excellent player (8) Expectorated (4) End of the line? (8) Entered cinema, excitedly (4,2) Everyone embraces first female to get academic qualification (1,5) Eeyorish (10) Endanger (8) Eccentric, Beryl? Hope that's exaggeration (9) Escape route (4) Europeans make eyepiece with high finish (5) Erstwhile plum duffer (5) Empress turned up when cross (8) Exert force; the Fourth Estate (5) EU slang involved in a Catholic prayer (7) Extremely suggestive text sent to musicians (6) Edge into church for sin (5) Enough to correspond after a date (8) Excessive pride (9) Ebb (4,4) Express difficulty finding temporary solution (5,3) Extra note is switched for two (8) Embarrassing predicament (6) Epithet; additional title (3-4) Embarrassing error; crusty white bread (7) Endlessly chilly in depression (3) Easy shot, we hear, over key stronghold (7) Extremely canny gentlemen edit what's produced by pen (6) Earth's one source of electricity consumed by factory (6) Expert missing home went on cutting rose from Cape? (7,3) End of flight, outdoors and in (7) Exhibiting confidence (7) Establish (5) Expose more of text, namely by revolutionary movement (6) Enclosed what's written, but not using word processor (6) Equip with masts or sails (3) Electric discharge between two points (3) Energetic (8) Expressionless (5) Expert insight for furnishing (9) Easily bent (6) Entered; explored (4,4) Exercises to improve oxygen levels (8) Expensive fur (coat) (4) Endlessly regular, in his place (5) Equally skilful with either hand (12) Enjoyable (8) Everything for Montgomery? (3,4,5) Endorsement of commercial choice (8) Embellish (5) Essential — lively (5) Evaluate (8) Eatery within media company short of meat (6) Expert wished good riddance? (8) Epic story (4) End of road — politician in criminal case bunks off (7) Explosion (5) Enticed (7) Each class function (7) Each cat essentially spies a tree (6) Escargots (6) Extreme poverty (6) European bridge: one should start leading hearts (7) Edible green seeds (4) Equilibrium (7) Emotionally excited (3,2) Entertainment venue close to bath full of chlorine (9) Escapes including receipts? They shouldn't really be seen (3-5) Ecological style of writing about to be promoted (5) Extremely upsetting (3-9) Even-tempered, calm (6) Eyesight problem making distant objects appear blurred (6) Elation (anag) — protection for 18 (7) Edge into church at a war zone (6) Expedient appreciated by bored pupils? (5-4) Expression of frustration about European taxes (5) Eccentric has row in Cyprus (6) Engine on rails (abbr) (4) English rock band formed in the 1960s (6,3) Embarrass (9) English writer upset about first letter from Greece — or a later one (5) Endless military drill (informal) (6-7) Elegant (4) Emit gas and perhaps smoke around gallery (8) Effect of over-indulgence (8) Essex town providing staff for plane, maybe (11) Eg Romeo dismissing Juliet's second film sequence (7) Euro MP worried about current mass market (8) Entourage (7) Entertainer who performs dance routines with a python or boa constrictor (5,7) Examiner buttons lip for a term (9) Elastic synthetic fabric — expands (anag) (7) Escapade (for a bird?) (4) Exercise for the stomach muscles (3-2) Eisteddfod winner, dull, turned up (4) Eccentricity of Foreign Office manual lacking introduction (6) Extravagant queen gets aquatic beast (5) End the French tax levied by French king! (6) Encourage in doing wrong (4) Everything (3) Encroach (on) (7) Endeavour of a worker to come in sober (7) Exaggeration, overstatement (9) Elaborate, embellish (9) Earl employed to cover up one showing signs of old age? (4-6) Empty shores in which you'll see bird moves quickly (6) Expelled (6) Empty talk (4) Endorsement (11) Even Shylock didn't demand this extravagant payment (2,3,3,1,3) Endlessly surprised by web (4) Essentially, newcomer tackles code of silence (6) Earth caught by radio interference over the moon (8) Equipment used by climbers (3,5) English classical composer, d. 1934 (5) Enemy runs away from front … (3) Endless beauty in cojones — for those showing them? (7) Essential (5) Early washing machines (4-4) Every seven days, leader apparently turned up submissively (6) Engineer can request a book, needing to start afresh, it's said (4,2,6,3) Extraterrestrial's son's declining wits (6) Everybody in church retains a friendly relationship (8) Event that fails badly (6) Elbow say brownish, seen from underneath (5) English grasped by kids completely, as they say (5) Easily bent into shape (7) English dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 (6,6) Experience financial hardship (4,3,5) Eh? (4) Enclosed kitchen fireplace (5) Entertain a Greek goddess (5) Even (5) Enigma Variations composer, d. 1934 (5) Expected successor to position or estate (4) Elves are beautiful in elegant stripy tops (7) English poet who's liable to lash out? (7) Ex-pat changes first name to Charlie for some protection (6) Endless slander I attributed to old girls and boys (6) Excitable and unpredictable (8) Expensive (6) Examples of popular positions (9) Editor turning stingy leads to our sort of attitude (9) Easy task that keeps learner secure (6) End of life, an evolution (6) Extra soft at the front, like such bras? (6) Engage in sport or cheat at it (4) Employ pundit, regardless of pressure (5) Edit clue, first of four condemned as underhand (9) Earth's level area included in test (9) Excessive (5) Expression of amazement (5,2) Even-tempered, calm (6) Endearing (8) Entr'acte (9) Exhausted, having ridden a storm (7) Emit a steady light without flames (4) Encourages recount — you might say 'pardon' (9) Even a smidgen of evidence (4) Eagle's nest? (5) Echoing musical with two notes raised (9) Entering eg Qatar, granddaughter went abroad (9) English playmaker Jack heading for nightclub in drag (7) Extinct primate (6) Experienced person (3-5) Examine intensely (or superficially!) (4) Ecstasy among RC saints confused scriptwriter (9) Elected with no change in Washington, pure and simple (8) Establish residence in US city overlooking eastern tip of Florida (6) Episode going wrong in end? It encapsulates Conservative (8) Et cetera (3,2,2) Execrate (5) Early Mediaeval period in Western Europe (4,4) Excuse — excuse me! (6) Elsinore's philosopher/statesman possibly becoming rasher? (6,5) Exhaust Spooner's dim individual (8) Exclusive party in extremity adopting new name (3,5) Edible sour leafstalks (7) Edible black marine bivalve (6) Excites readers? (7) Expression wears thin when spoken (6) Exchanging introductions, discover friendly energy supplier (4,4) Express ignorance about Italian's title (6) ET? (5) Encore! (5) Eccentric, but excellent, casserole (8) Everything you say is never wrong (8) Elaborate hindquarters indeed (8) Ease (9) Endless commotion outside? Inside you once played (5) English fashion, eg clean style (8) European test report (5) Eccentric aunt carrying type of bomb in both hands — it's normal (7) Exactly the sort of thing I like! (3,2,3) Express glee seeing officer caught up in boring duty (7) Escaped (3,3) Elderly student spoiling gigolos rotten (13) Expression of postprandial satisfaction for Shakespearean character (5) Evaluate (6) European facing question — competent and calm (7) Exchange (4) Engrave with acid (4) Enter and rob (6) English county (abbr) (5) Extra time to follow chaps who do yoga? (10) Extremely coquettish kind of yellow jumper turned up where one goes at night (7,3) Exam not fine for a learner (4) Extra benefits (from a job) (5) Extremely comfortable — advocate getting new investment (8) Everyone in the group heading off — he wasn't free (5) Evidence of digging in the garden? (8) Extreme body parts (4) Excessive pride, arrogance (6) Extremely shyly signifies approval in church meetings (6) End on the back of chair, awkwardly seated in ceremony (9) Emotionally affected (5) Expedite (6) Exercise to become hard when tender at one time (7) English public school's opening grounds (7) Established novelist links up on air (8) Evil spell (5) Even Dad's starting to recede (3) Endorsement printed on a book cover (5) Egocentrism (4-8) Exploit source of inspiration when lives lost (6) Enters the exam, exhausted, to get prize (6) Edible shellfish, source of mother-of-pearl (7) Evergreen shrub with glossy fragrant leaves (6) Extremely sharp bend (7) Exalted (5) Expert, authority (6) Exceedingly (5) Ease up (4,4) Embellish (speech or writing) with different material — learn dirt (anag) (9) Extremely picky (13) Explorer's hut revealed a secret (10) Engineer examined such a dramatic device (4,2,7) Exhibition of cowboy skills (5) Elder statesman from Germany with zero cash abroad (5) Exhorted earnestly (5) Endure (4) Extra-marital affair (5) Exhaust (3,2) Eagerly desirous (4) Eager to cause carnage, shortly bid to relax (12) English archdeacon of a smooth nature (4) English county (9) Enduring without complaint (4-9) Entertained (6) Excessively fastidious (9) Edit makes cardinal turn? (6) Eschewing all booze (8) European country since 1993 (8) English play around island (4) Either of the Bear constellations (Major or Minor) (4) Excuse expert fabricated ahead of time (7) Eg you exploded about line in speech containing nothing bad? (6) Exchange first two pieces in game as gambit (6) Excuse criminal getting cheated (7) Embodiment of perfection (5) English-American Hollywood star, born Alexander Archibald Leach, d.1986 (4,5) Electronic pioneer keeping in farmyard sounds (6) Experts over piece of meat bringing in one to make ham (10) Excessively fond (7) English south coast county (6) Established way of behaving (6) Every so often (4,2,1,5) Extremely unpleasant (8) Educational institute (7) Edgar Rice ___ , creator of Tarzan (9) Exciting (8) Enlisted — sort of writing? (6,2) Employ information technology in low-key, on-screen assistance (8) Entreaty (6) Exciting piece from Bremen (thus in German) (9) Eat meat having dropped article inside loin and leg (4,5) English poet, sensation (7) Essentially deem ancient times a misery! (6) Epic English poem — salaried post (anag) (8,4) Energetic person (6) Examine outskirts of city, one looking quite attractive (3,5) Established diary has entry for November evening, Tory leader admitted (4-8) Eyes other blokes, discontentedly (4) Elastic hair fastener (9) Erroneously pick up what someone's saying (7) Emperor, you heard, in 15 (7) Even money, in truth (6) Elasticated activity from a great height (6,7) Excessive exploitation very nearly blocks river (7) European sophistication (6) Excess of sales over costs (6,6) Engine-less light aircraft (6) Every other change neatly arranged (11) Engineer questions exchanging money for new false reports (9) Entry made by Walter shortly appearing in a social gathering (10) Exceptional performance, kind rendered in Shakespearean role (6,2,7) England cricketer batting — good, getting established (7) Engage as a participant (7) English old gold coin one has for giving a lesson (9) Even — out of tune (4) Easily assembled dwelling (6) European — post (4) Extreme beliefs upset moralist — nothing's left between us (9) Extra time in bed in the morning (3-2) é: what's over this letter — urgent (5) Extend a period of validity (5) Ethnic group in Equatorial Africa (7) Extends merger of tech giants (9) Enforcer-in-chief's right — extremist spilling his guts (8) Extensive landed property — needs me (anag) (7) Examine reverse of Turner? Yes, surprisingly (7) Eric Clapton's rock band, formed 1966 (5) Erasing mildly abusive word about a Conservative (8) eg Gothic novel not following Frankenstein's lead (4) Enticement, lure (4) Eurasian caribou (8) Electrically charged particle (3) Easily offended (13) English proceed initially to Split for self-inflating experience (3,4) Eat like a rodent (4) Eat like a bird (4) European writer grasps Latin (4) Extended short story (7) Endures (5) Enlightenment — of dietician (anag) (11) Energy of mob riot (4) Essentially alters fake ivories, smuggling in article (9) European monarch twice hosts one stranger (6) European recalled study about Czech, say, enduring oppression? (8) Embarrassed North American sadly overturned portable stove (10) Expressing emotions beautifully (7) Expert to study din round second old city (11) Eastern money brings expression of disgust over time (4) Excessive quantity (7) Exacting (5) Edge past river; this one? (5)
