Clues Starting With p Palace player going too far in a large undergarment (8) Pirouetting priest in party is slippery (5) Person to copy European-style bread sandwiches (4,5) Praise dropping a train network for non-union shenanigans (8) Polish shoe with stockings (4) Primarily Transcaucasian, besieged inland locale: it's strategically important! (7) Properties that provide disappointing rents for the owners (8) Play away? It will turn into farce (9) Prey (6) Pass out of sight (8) Part of horse's foot (4) Preposterous (6) Performers walk in the auditorium (6) Pound troy — half-forgotten weight (7) Party with yob carrying drug to distribute (4,3) Potato (informal) (4) Plans for achieving set objectives (7) Place in position (7) Pause in activity (5) Pre-eminent (8) Powerful weapons used by English archers in the Middle Ages (8) Protect game — it could get you on film (6,4) Playing by ear? Try hybrid fruit (8) Pulling muscles earlier in inattentive state (11) Perhaps Merkel's eaten 40% of icing that's used on cakes (8) Primarily modernized African democracy, although governor's a strongman called Andry Rajoelina? (10) Perhaps krypton might make you angriest? (5,3) Precipitator (8) Piece for a lone singer or musician (4) Player's token in Monopoly (3,3) Part played (4) Party attended by composer leaving new widow (7) Politician covered in sauce rises suddenly (5) Proves company is involved in fraudulent activities (8) Pomegranate syrup, used in drinks (9) Preserve order initially, drunk among native Americans (8) Put link next to a contract (7) Players holding an ace in this? (7) PM's body parts in Spooner's speech (3,5) Primarily, someone honouring 'Infallible Ali'? (4) Protective garment (5) Preliminary survey (inf.) (5) Prestigious group of US private universities (3,6) Puts play off, its bill being remarkable (8) Perfunctory wash (informal) (7) Pristina is its capital (6) Perhaps email in the latest style? (4-6) Pepper pot shaken over fried carbon-free mince (7) Primate (3) Poach cycling ducks (5) Prolix (4-6) Prepare (3,5) Person opposed to 27 backing place for better learner (5) Pulse in broth that needs stirring (5) Potty rough, nipper's rear pulled out (4) Prison appropriate (4) Party supporting Johnson ultimately, in principle — this heavyweight must be fired (10) Perhaps fillies west of Tennessee oddly lacking judgment (5,5) Persuade Greek character: talk up trinkets (10) Primarily obscenely / greedily / lecherously eye? (4) Part in a play; function (4) Prophet (4) Passage between rows of seats (5) Principal role — heavy metal (4) Passion leading to hot dispute in airport (8) Prepared to go round a bottomless piece of ice that's steep (8) Parasite in rotten leaf (4) Platform for public speaking (7) Pot belly (6) Parasite's brief panic about pound (4) Philosopher's very cheap cars (8) Plant donor leg set by doctor, initially (9) Prone to an outburst against rough calico around neck opening (8) Peers around rough entrances crossed by golfer (5) Part of a stage in front of the curtain (5) Peer ranking above a viscount (4) Proved to be the case (6,3) Pinkie (6,6) Police rank (8) Padded mattress from Japan (5) Public figure giving hint (8) Pro card player's inspired about project (8) Pastry crust of canapé, something consumed in bits (9) Poet, reading the Iliad, mostly stunned (5,9) Post mountain-climbing setter in building (9) Pun (4,2,5) Part of an egg (5) Personnel (5) Plank 8? (3-2-4) Provide enlightenment and exalt leader stepping down (5) Parasite seen in experimental test tubes (but eradicated) (6) Post-It's regularly showing trident shapes (4) Put to one side (6) Players need these for maximum clearance (3,6) Pass Charlie what's laid on in the bathroom (1,3,1) Powerful rescue vehicle is a great help (5,2,8) Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content (7) Person of equal standing (4) Pale blue colour (4) Pirates (anag) — shlep (7) Possible reason we can't cross the river here? One's left work, in short (8,7) Police station (informal) (3,4) Person living beyond their hundredth birthday (11) Purpose shown by predecessors of foe (3) Private patients are treated here (6) Pilgrim, speaking directly, left home (8) Phone up after pressure is checked (5) Panic room beneath sadly unfinished (5) Profundity (8) Preoccupied with excretion (12) Putting around and through miniature windmills etc (5,4) Prayer with invocations by the priest and responses from the congregation (6) Plain case has lost ivory top (6) Pays for machine to make furniture (9) Pressure to withdraw conservationists? It's happened before (9) Process essential to commence expansion (5) Plant found in back parts of Thanet Castle (6) Places to go that are wildly insular (7) Preferred course of action (3,2,2) Prospective husband (6) Period of one's greatest productivity (6) Plant not out by hedge (7) Pakistan's capital (9) Pigeon's murmur (3) Pub requires no money for a sort of smoothie? (8) Principal's lines are sparkling (6) Pub bar (6) Play country in Africa — no trouble over touring (9) Passing nurse in van (9) Puppet with strings attached (10) Protest: gather it is audible? (6) Platinum anniversary (10) Philistine giant (7) Punctuation mark missing from ones grammar (10) Passionate (6) Pointed criticism of second pub? (4) Presenter and what her voice may come from (7) Perhaps seen from Torquay hotel window, ie waves crashing (3,4) Pretty fine appearance (4) Prison staff returning drug to Chalky or Dusty, say (8) Party chief's area of knowledge (6) Passes on (6) Practice of growing different things in a field in sequence (4,8) Passages in ancient Greek city by lake (6) Plan once again coming from socialist platform? (7) Piccadilly hotel (4) Pure ecstasy after flower festival in church (4-5) Particularly large stick raised over boy's bottom (7) Pain in the neck (8) President's withholding the last of human remains (5) Peer pressure ultimately applied against a heartless prince (4) Punch and Judy operator (9) Pickled herring fillet (7) Potential success is in doughnuts or fried onions with salt (6,4) Prison (informal) (7) Policy of separate racial development (9) Plant with bitter leaves used in green salads (6) Personified sleep getting endless hype? Not so! (6) Pub hosts fellow with ukulele, initially as a joke (2,3) 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) 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) 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) Person who takes the risk for a new business (12) Pleading for Quarex? (6) Production (6) Presentiment, apprehension (10) Pennant, decoration (8) 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) 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) 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) Pray continue busy meeting, cutting in all over the place (2,2,5) 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) Profession of both Chekhov and Zhivago? (8) Persistently pursue (5) Pole tossed in Scottish games (5) Politically progressive (7) Papal court (5) Part of the mind acting as a conscience (8) 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) Portable radio transmitter/receiver (6-6) 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) Physical reaction to something hair-raising (5,7) Prolific detective sounds like he could become gloomy (7) Paperwork (abbr) (5) Policy supported by Unionists ready for the future (5,2) Praise highly, though out of key (5) Parody (7) Parliament, for instance (11) Plug — promote (4) Piedmont province known for its sparkling wine (4) Phrygian 'Mother of all Gods' equating to the Greek Rhea or Demeter (6) Proof (8) Paper size (8) Pretend to be an impresario (3,2,2,3) Pope endlessly fiddling with his holy principles (10) Pipe for channelling smoke (4) Pragmatic sort (7) Putty-style sealant (6) Plump (6) Person fluent in many languages (8) Prisoner and guard meet head on (7) 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) Pleasing to the Scots? (4) Painting with concerning mark inside mount (9) Punk band raises excitement at the start (9) Perfumed (7) 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) 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) Poker-faced (7) Praise — honour (5) Place where contests and spectacles are held (5) Proust's character is weak, going in opposite directions (5) Prison visitor's not a Charlie (7) Party almost sounded scornful of the modern state? (10) Planner not so sensible, squashing resistance (7) Poet who wrote The Scholar Gipsy (1853) (7,6) Pistol — 1966 Beatles album (8) President dismissing Republican to get refreshment (4) Person who gets paid cash advance (8) Part of the mouth (4) Punctuation mark (5) Place, in a legal sense (5) Person who determines the final content of a text (6) 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) 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) Perfectly fit and well (2,5,2,4) Policeman (informal) (5) 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) Persian language (5) Put more plainly, tenor and soprano's parting was overdue (9) Praise diverse kingdom of old (6) 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) 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) Precluded (6) 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) Prove superior (7) Pizza dough turnover with a savoury filling (7) Paris-based jewellery and wristwatch manufacturer (7) Party — hit — try (all informal) (4) Passes a law again (2-6) Persistent animal gets exercise daily, using leads (6) Piece of luggage, one for Sherlock? (4) 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) 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) Pearl producer (6) Parent's sister (6) Poke around (7) Pulls grass up (5) Partially decomposed organic material (5) Proposes another point of view (6,2,7) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Pretty — spectacular (6) Pay particular care to understand this (4,4) 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) Pestilent crop stripper (6) Period when hostilities, interrupting aid, end badly (9) 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) 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) Place to rest one's bones (7) Piece of music available in bookshop, usually (4) Person suffering from adverse circumstances — 1961 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms (6) Place of retreat (6) Protection from decorating etc. (4,5) Papal court (5) 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) Placed (5) Pledge — guarantee (6) Play in the street (4) Perhaps Harrovians and partners, entering drag race (11) Put up with (7) Pastoral verse (7) Proposition from those folk holding Scandinavian capital (7) Parisian street (3) Plant protection — woman's hat (6) Put out (10) Press; herd (5) Plant louse; garden pest (5) Pasta pockets (7) Photographic cameo superimposed on to another print (5) Projecting ridge (on a mountain or underwater) (5) Process apt to go wrong, ignoring ace candidates (9) Puzzle — Ian Rankin's inspector (5) President upset writer touring Delaware … (5) Pen extremely legible type (5) 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) Performer's return after a gap (8) Playful old chef using lime tips in beer (7) Poet expressing pain after desire waned (10) Playing on computers or other electronic devices (6) Pressure applied to a US felon (4) Pop's broken tea service (5) Pastoral (7) p.a. (6) Possibility of future success; view (8) Portable outdoor shelter (4) Part of cow I fed partner (4) 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) Piece of chewing tobacco (4) Passage from a longer piece (7) Poor urban neighbourhood (6) Princely companion of Shakespeare's Falstaff (3) Passage from one end of Salonica to the other? (4) Peewit (7) Petty (7) Party allowed by Yard? That's chicanery! (9) Pooh's feline friend (6) Place (4) Prophetic sign (4) 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) Part of a fork (4) Plain (9) Protein present in wheat (6) Provisional — hesitant (9) Pinnacle of achievement (4) Pitiful person (6) Puberty (11) Perfectly suited (5) Positions men take up in Waterloo and Austerlitz? (6,8) Plant once again lush, climbing (5) Power (8) Pollen-producing part of a flower (6) Pluck — intestines (4) Pay; job specification (5) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Poor handwriting (6) Paleozoic fossil with a three-part exoskeleton (9) 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) Participating (7,2) Pal (4) 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) Pinpoint (6) Pack of cards for fortune-tellers (5) Previous (5) Positive articles regarding all the gods (8) Place of refuge (5) 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) 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) 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) 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) Plunge (4) Path of a projectile subject to gravity (8) Precious gem (4) Purgative, emetic (5) 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) 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) 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) Prevent from happening (6) Pop-up breakfast food (5) Prejudice (7) Precise (4,2) Patella (7) 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) Pass from one person to another (8) Parade prop (5) Popular musical instrument, extremely tactile, but untouched? (9) 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) Particular feature of something (5) Padded part of an easy chair (7) Parsley-like herb (7) Police officer once excited with strip (9) Person who deflects negative attention from someone else — gliding north (anag) (9,3) Procedure (6) Portent (4) Pugilist (5) Place for bees (6) Produce shoots (6) Perhaps 2000 or 2020 players struggle to control Real's midfield (4,5) Perhaps 11p fur? (6) Port in endless disorder (3) 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) Place for parking unwanted items? (5) Personal (3) Put to practical use — like some fruit? (5) Paddington Bear's favoured garment (6,4) Previously (4) Pop turned back as I entered to say goodbye (5) 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) Provide more weapons (5) Part of speech (6) Parliamentary official — cold bark (anag) (5,3) Political leader holds back gentleman, a solid figure (5) 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) 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) 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) Pub found by green, say, showing distinctive features of a place (5,6) Prepare round figure in part of a theatre (5,6) 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) 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) 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) Pungent red pepper (7) Pronto (2,4) Pole dancing doctor lubed after rotation? (5) Poles securing trained part of plant (6) Place to lie low (7) Plant mould (6) 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) People — music genre (4) Penny's annoyed by design originally being copied without permission (7) Pisa can't be rebuilt by leaders (8) Period leading up to Christmas (6) Prince's saying more protection (7) Physical coming-together? Duke is accepting restraint on movement (10) 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) 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) Parasitic insect (4) Praise (4) Part of core curriculum to come up again (5) Present opportunities are in store here (4,4) Payment demanded for stored electricity? (6) Periodical (8) Poplar or pine? (4) Philanthropist abandons half the Hebridean islands (4) Portable two-way radio (6-6) Pay — our men earn it (anag) (12) Perpetually angry people irritating to barmen (4-1-3) Pony carriage (4) Praise highly (5) Part of a shoe (5) Praise — honour (5) 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) Post-lunch get a paper, nobody around to hamper reading (9) 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) Piece of cake (informal) (6) Put upon (6) Picturegoer gutted about some current spoiler? (8) Pounds given to one with potential for debt (9) 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) Papal legate (6) 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) 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) Plus plenty more (3,4,4) Prepare to sail (5,6) Proverbial madman on tail of nervous wreck (7) Plan and direct a course (8) 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) Petty fit (4) Pasta parcels (7) Percussionist hero accompanying Romeo (5)