Clues Starting With t The Met Office? (8,4) Time off saved duty at work (5,4) Tape 100 like me, endlessly (8) Testing parking shelter (8) Time, between a day and a month, tense on Parisian hill (10) Tech giant, soft at heart? As if, dear! (5,2,2,3) Topless, dotty host (4) Training is going as intended (2,6) Try reading out opening bits of Secret Agent (5) Text corrector (9) The Seven Seas (6) Termination (6) Trench in meadow ending with silt (4) The driving idea originally conjured up for supposed royal prerogative (6,5) Top clue cunningly constructed? This one is word-wise! (7) Television (as opposed to film) (5,6) Trend (7) Throw-out before a score? Attempt might pay off (5,1,3) Turn right, then Green St and stay? (12) Try to be a loveless, awful source of power (7) Trained gudong, one working with hunters (3,3) Two-way conversation (8) Taken for a ride (6) To hand (9) Tasty morsel (6) Type of race put down again (5) Toy filled with wrong fuel, sadly (9) This could be the apple of the teacher's eye? (5) Thought supreme deity initially mad (8) That hurt! (4) Try, with great effort (6) Three-legged rugby player? (3,4) Teams on radio? They think out of box, primarily (5) Territorial map is wrong to include northern land near this? (7,8) Time one German given clubs (he's a golfer) (5,5) The French female admitting mistake, largely shown up – seriously! (3,4) Tropical storm (7) Things you ought not to tell? (5) Team getting on with protecting injury (9) This childish fight can escalate rapidly (8) Tourist needs face mask going round city centre (7) Turn to see ladies joining king's circle (4,5) Text about new hit fashions (6) Type of film only showing in visible and ultraviolet light? (4) Timid setter's crossing river (6) Turkish delight at last — after starter of olives, am not upset! (7) Type of house (informal) (4) Tavern (8) Talks quietly to dogs slipping lead (7) Tactic (4) The man's receiving little knock in instances of corporal punishment (7) This person, about to stop affair, is creator of 27 (7) Take back grappling iron left in a risky way (8) Tolerate (7) Treat pet with trip to resort with gentle sounds (6-6) Tool (7) Tableware (5) Take the consequences of one's actions (4,3,5) Thin porridge (5) Tried firs chopped up and cooked (4-5) Treacherous behaviour (4-8) Thought fun is late starting (6) Toff in uniform was in the army secretly (10) Translating English literature, pens second half of proverb (6,2,7) Trainee officer (5) Turnover, spectacular at first, is contained by Pacific island (6) Two litres covered by one-time liquid softener (9) Typical sort of characters, as in 'serfs', maybe (4,5) This with 26? A film criminal (8) Teacher content in the end, is one good at multiplication? (6) TS Eliot's 'cruelest month' (5) Take away (6) Too old (4,2) Traditional motifs in piece of music caught by solver in France (5) Tardily, woke Liberal goes on record, boring new voters (9) Tense following refusal. Little drink? Absolutely (3,4) Tense, nervous (4) The short opening suits a plant (6) Take care of doctor who stepped in a puddle (6) Tattooist's tool (6) Take food (3) Toddlers kept engaged by this dramatic series? (9) Twinkling finale for virtuoso part in duet (7) Type of heavy rock music — thermal hats (anag) (6,5) This 'title' could be 'tile' (7) Thirteen Enigma Variations Elgar originally pictured within Nimrod puzzled composer (10) This wine would struggle to be nastier (7) Tries and dismisses following court's conclusion (5) Tribe's difficulty dividing African country (8) Transitional (7) Try to persuade some regular guests (5) Top theatre's first Evita cast to mesmerise (9) Test disheartened pupil before English lesson (7) That tastes good! (informal) (5) Tower of a mosque (7) Turn out in the end (9) Tortilla — lead chain (anag) (9) Take to task (5) Twisted (5) They are often lit up outside pubs (7) Try uplifting sign given by an enormous number (6) Took the test again after returning a shocker (5) Try to gain favour by flattery (6) Tycoon with no money from a common male ancestor (6) Tough husband wearing drag (4) Terminal at Heathrow initially breaks rules (7) Traditional English folk fun — micro-darnings (anag) (6,7) That bloke with nice bum about to join conversation (5,2) Tilt to one side (4) Turmoil (5-5) Traveller to work (8) Tex-Mex food for another journey, it's tacos apparently for starters (6) Tip of little finger sliced off, black (4) Throne issue for PM and POTUS? (7) Tight-fitting trousers (3-7) Ten-year period (6) Tool for cutting metal (7) That's one in the eye for scholar (5) Tackle receiving poor pay in intermediate period (3,4) Thus raised concern about untrained playwright (5,5) The end of Ronaldo's last game broadcast (5) Tiny tick (6) Tin and nickel originally covering old gun (6) Twining honeysuckle — booed win (anag) (8) Target ring furthest from the bullseye (5) The fellow with right awkward clues — a labouring individual (8) Total nonsense (that may be eaten!) (5) Too perfect? (7) Tag describing article found in English mine (7) They review problem with motorway sign (9) The Spanish earl gives out tips and is delayed (5,4) Top plate of an internal combustion engine that holds the injectors and spark plugs (8,4) Transient (8) Trunk blood artery (5) Transparent plastic paint (7) Toasting or pitching implement? (4) Thing (4) Tacit (8) The netherworld (4) Things found in yachts regularly after back-to-back parties (7) Trouble with Cats? Musical rubbish (4,5) They say you are each in love with this museum (6) Tiny amount of money for exercise area's crazy (7) Theatre is nothing to heartless devil (5) They may subsidise part of service, but only with one rupee (6) Time to block low ball in sporting event (9) Tempting figure's about to eat doughnut pieces (7) Take (to be true?) (6) Tactical move (6) Titters infuriated some bars at the end (7) Toothy smile (4) This type of clue is back — without a couple of letters, it's a killer! (4) The Guardian has coverage of gastric haemorrhage as a sign of desolation (10) Tot up (3) Toyed (with something) (8) Tea-maker (3) Turns down (7) Tonic (4-2-2) Time fades (anag) — negativity (9) Take in — hoax (4) The indignant take it as a violation (7) The quality is not entirely the same (5) Took a tumble from deadly hill (4) Talk and smooch freely, when abandoning a city (9) Teachers sorting out the classrooms (13) They should bring you round (8,5) Turning aside cast in Cold Feet (10) Talk on 50A light (3,4) Twice the trouble and strife in such a state? (6) Thoughtful towards others (11) Toxic gas, Rn (5) Tenant (6) The end of acts in play touring old city (8) Tiny piece (4) Toady (4) Typical report on patient's condition in absence of coppers? (2,6) The Senior Service (4) Talk too much (about) (2,2) The Sistine Chapel has many such paintings (6) Tasty paste from West Asia used all round Britain (6) Terrible slur spread about pedigree dogs (4,8) The French kiss is sloppy (3) Thick-skinned individual marched awkwardly around yard after start of parade (9) Target protest (6) Tyrant locking last of opponents in garage (6) Twelfth Night's cross-dressing heroine (5) Thirteen rugby league players (4) Temporary (7) Tube for transferring liquid from one container to another (6) Tiger Moth has to fly last bit of the journey (4,8) Tiny tree developing — it never stops (8) Treasures former PM's wife's keeping shut up (9) Take a firm line with trendy little girl — end of argument (6) The swine won't appreciate them (6) Takes cab (anag) — inferior position (8) Trendy supplement found in salmon, for example (7) Take off topless summer wear (7) Training inept GI forces — how long might it be? (5,2,6) Talk over (7) Thin on the ground (6) Talked about a lift — making arrangements (6) Trouble inside — punch unwelcome visitor to house (7) Thing (or person) that is no longer useful (4,4) Tentative (8) Taking action against something bad before it becomes worse (8,3,3) The ------: period 1804-15 in France under Napoleon Bonaparte (6) Tendon; gristle (5) Take a firm stand (6) Taking the driving seat, change gear after a short distance (2,6) Tied house right behind field (7) Time-saving hairdo? (5,3) Top actress playing for them, say (10) The Lord has one for each letting in light (6) Ties rocking horse's tail with pin (13) Thatcher's revolting for jailing opposition leader and the Queen (6) Tackle a backlog (5,2) Transport bacon — ham's off! (6,3) Trained stagehands do it, confounding expectations (7,3,4) They'll cheat hotel over chops with right stuffing (7) Took a picture featuring African browser (5) Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull (7) Tip of tape measure going round collar (5) Tango close to body (5) That's all there is to it; it's that simple! (4,4,5) Twisted swordplay? (4) Three-pronged spear (7) Two successive lines of verse (7) Train a gun (4,3) This can't be! (13) Tending to scare off star Liam (8) Truncated fancy bra raised temperature (6) Two Labour leaders set to sack head of union for business grouping (8) Type of sugar (8) To do with trade and/or traders (10) Tell (6) Taking down and out to get £1,000 (6) Thread-like structure in living cells carrying genetic information (10) Treacle (anag) — daughter of Agamemnon (7) Thicket or dense growth of trees or bushes (5) Tall, nearly cylindrical, military cap, often with a plume (variant spelling) (6) Talkative person (10) Take it easy (5) Till (4,8) Tiny amounts (5) Type of tuna (8) Teacher of the Torah (5) Trouble over sphincter, tender (7) Table includes boundaries from your old player (6) The Bluegrass State (8) Tours in France, say — plane came with parts around middle switched (5,4) Tipped off (7) Taking everything into account (3,4) Taverns in France avoided by north Europeans (4) Taps into source of mineral pigment (5) Turn down end of alley, following retreat (4) Type of clue about a ragman? (7) Tiny hero of English folklore (3,5) To boot (4) Turbulent river in Europe, as far as the Guardian is concerned (7) Terribly quaint and ultimately obsolete (7) The hapless are to speak (5) They say thin is right (4) The religious leader crossing river brings drink containers (9) Tower officer is no vegetarian (9) These leaders could be real idiots (10) They might be fancy, sleek — can be worn by many? (9) Tasty fruit left out? It's rotten, one's no good (10) Taking a while and requiring patience (4-9) Tacit (8) Tawdry items (3) To survive on regular contributions, it's problematic (7) The corrupt accept this: to live, cut by ridicule (5) There's no end to early morning link-up — whatever you want! (3,4,2) Tam o' Shanter poet (5) Traditional pantomime — No. 1 bus stops (anag) (4,2,5) Take (or pull) back (7) Tranquilise (6) Thawed out (7) Theatrical friend in hotel, having forgotten new address (7) Temper! Losing head a lot (5) Thug (7) Thaw (2-3) Toilet paper (3,4) Type of printer (6) The very thing left by critical attack when the axe drops? (4,3,3) Test, say (7,5) Takes the blame (7,3,3) Two strips of beach (6) Twist a short tournament for tropical tree-dwellers (9) Tea display vehicle (7) Take in most of cuisine before start of lunch (4) Traditional square dance for four or more couples (9) The necessary spot of sweetener in tonic (4) TV (6-3) Truth (6) Tunic or nightie? Not tight, that is a fabulous creation (7) Team batting at the Queen's pleasure? (6) Tormentor who would make Shelley more smart, when read out? (10) Tentatively propose sin as a tyrant's thing (10) Trade vehicle (3) Transferred from one vessel to another (9) Trump's behind troubles and torments (7) To be honest (4,4,2) Think a lot of diamonds get hidden in a bog (6) That was close! (4) Target centre (4) Thoroughly corrupt (6,2,3,4) Threefold (10) Torso (5) Took out someone a bit past it (5) Tough but very much present! (2,5) Thin — steep — complete (5) They may make one clutch! (4) Titled lady no one associated with a lord, somehow (5,5) Teeter (6) Turkish capital (6) Taped (anag) — expert (5) Troops set back a party sign blocking way (4,2) Tyrone town evicts German with a place in Nebraska (5) Tied position in a game at tennis (5) Truck for moving goods or troops (5) Teacher (5) Tapped in (5) They protect the Crown (7) Turn provided by senior cricketer (7) Troy besieged by messy rebels with special structures (7) Top of double-decker bus to crash into reservations (6) To the audience, type of TV view material (5) Transport gold in two hands by end of day (5) Thin sheet used in baking biscuits or cakes (4,5) They say you again got entangled with an American native (6) Timekeepers extremely eager, but not this one (12) Traverse (3,6) The clear, upper air; an anaesthetic (5) Tolkien's tree-like forest creatures (4) Tomb's terrible curse: help! (9) Trouble for each major enemy (7) Trousers that come sizes 8, 12 and 16? (4,5) Three stumps (with two crosspieces) (6) Throaty (8) Tedium (5) Truth (6) Things that read like 'senile felines' (11) Ta! (5,3) Third person by eighth vehicle? It may be fruitful (10,4) Tibetan mountain guide (6) Tiny pieces (6) Tore to pieces another composition of Verdi (5) Trial cast upset opera producer (9) Trumpets opinions, well-argued, very, very loudly (6,3) Time spanned by piece of music fine for composer (6) Told a story in song (4) Tissue connecting muscles to bones (6) Tropical fruit eaten fresh or used to make jellies (5) The other side of a circle shown by black lines (7) Take flight, holding line of the sun (5) The latest slavish followers of sitcom vanish, if convulsed! (7,7) The Italian boy's high dives becoming reckless (3-7) Threatened to change the decor (8) Term for mountainous area with lake and wood (6) Temporary shelter (4-2) TV show judge's entertaining pooch? (7) That's disgusting! (5) Time to switch off! (6,3) Tiny flow of liquid (7) Tells off (6) Think too little of — me, nude artiste (anag) (13) Traveller's things (7) Travels round with some soldiers and privates (6) Threw party, embracing new game (8) The wrong word for it (8) Tapered tuck in dressmaking (4) Tug (4) They may be dark or creative! (4) Took horse round in this? (5) Team golfer wearing short fleece (7) Taxes one with millions and more than one job (7) Trickery (5) Time away (7) Three-parter (7) Trade (4) Temptation to clean out account with purchase (10) Tries on pants off the shelf? (2-5) Tick brown cans you need to recycle (7) Turn out (5) Test quirky uniform in zoo, initially (4) Tall clock part (8) Typically stand in line with key (4) Tramp pursuing former wife finally set off (7) Tiny plant or animal organisms that drift in water (8) Tongue-in-cheek (6) Tropical island I see in middle of Slough (4) Terminated (5) Trudge along (7) Talk about current lawbreaker at sea (6) The ----, Irish area under English rule (4) Terrible Russian ruler? (4) Trophy I had as boy archer (5) The nose one looks down? (5) The start of everything, a very noisy affair? (3,4) Tidy home, given command (2,5) The sort of letters one finds in a crossword (7) This employee makes pittance at first (4) Thoroughfare (4) Tango's predecessor (6) They look into wrong mark given to swimmers (1-4) Take in — convert into money (7) The writer's holding capital back for part of computer system (6) Twist in tornado? (4) Turn up to either building, though not hospital (9) That man in violent slide reversing car (6) Tackle an unpleasant situation (4,3,6) Tea drunk by queen in Royal Gala, say (5) Takes off part of the weekend, given flowers (9) Tepid (8) Team having only clubs? (3,6) Taken for granted (7) Torpor (8) To block noise, sheriff covering those with these? (8) These are black and white underwear items on non-binary third person (6) This country is back — after having an illness — that's just for starters (5) Try to be seen in reflected light for practice (9) Type of terrier (3,4) Tiny dot in a cathode-ray tube screen image (5) Team attending pub strip in window (7) Tenancies cancelled, excuses being made (4,3) Turn away 50% of travellers in distress (5) Totally unworried (8) Troublemaker on broadcast intended being heartless, creating harm (10) Travellers gloomy, drinking beer? Quite the opposite (8) Telling a long, far-fetched story (8,1,4) The noble art of self-defence? (8) Train — bus (5) Type of service available en route to popular escape (8) Training expert in silence, perhaps (5) Thin core becoming small — it could shock you (5) Troubled sleep is over for bears (6) They reflect as lion, say, moans audibly (4-4) Tom, Dick or Harry? (6) They put the squeeze on Hypnos, cast outside Troy (7) Tending to shake, a bit like a flight case? (9) Tossed (6) Terrible (9) Thin sea or freshwater fish (3) Tone in empty bar: call from landlord to stop drinking outside? (6) Thin coating (4) Twin having fallen from campanile? (4,6) Tight trousers splitting finally, vehicle held overhead — strain every sinew (4,1,3) Thinly sliced raw fish dish — his aims (anag) (7) Timber European found below crest (9) The bad guy in Othello (4) That's tasty! (3,3) Throughout the text (6) Tea (3) Toy figure (4) Treaty (anag) — talk (6) Thick stone removed (5) Tom is horribly damp (5) Trouble is generated about money — producing this? (12) Trumpeter might need this spokesperson (10) Trough carrying rainwater (6) Thwart (9) Thrive (7) Tanker carrying crude (5) Timid (13) Trinidad's island partner (6) Tartan trousers worn by Scottish regiments (5) Type of soldiers covering partners with return fire (4,5) Trunks almost all removed — smashing result for swimmers (7) Title of cricket ground's cool (8) This is one prompt to pen line (4) Taking off coat in Swansea, turning it upward (10) Those who hate foreigners (10) Tinned meat (4) Tiny songbird with a large high-pitched range (4) The pursuit of pleasure (8) Tend (5) Transport for baby (4) Tender and considerate (4) Threat from soldiers on crack (6) Throw about rum that's cheap and nasty (6) Thick unpleasant smell above climber (6) Tolerating nothing that may start epidemic (7,4) Taunton is its county town (8) Those beginning to scheme against reigning monarch (4) Test confidence without restraining me (4) Taxonomist in mid-life gets posher housing (10) Thrilling (12) Temporary living quarters (4) Turn computers into a dishonest business (4) Type of company stock (9) The body of male college members useless with scrambled egg (3,3,5,3) To extend my range as Duke, I write poetry (9) Taps closed, gas turned up for warming drink (6) Tear-jerking bulb (5) Time off (5) Throw party, performing Blue Moon on dropping tab (14) The greatest dessert for a legendary caveman (3,4) Twirling aristocrat let go of hot guy here! (7) To any extent (2,3) Tawdry — shtick (anag) (6) Theatre, films, TV, pop music etc (7) Travel and again back around the Home Counties and then back south for fruit (9) This convention is full of people, say (4) Transparent cover for her hat? (6) Ten Arabs concocted arsenic poison (8) T Greig's men ordered spice (4,6) Training for help with communication difficulties (6,7) Type of caviar (6) Transport to hotel with infant, one with large eyes (8) Terrified by a concoction for roughage (7,5) Time in Ross-on-Wye area (4) Two daughters interrupting irritating type, who poses a problem (7) Toiletries container (6,3) Tunisian built on second peninsular peak (5,5) TV connector, zero switches, piece behind back of clock (7) Times by four (9) Throwing lines on river catching a fish (7) Trip out (6) Talking point (5) Tragic figure's return followed by artist (7) Through defending American government, Republican is an enabler of Congress (6) Terrible avarice is perhaps a staple for the rich? (7) Temporary interval of calm (4) Thin, wasted (9) They make things happen (9) Try to seduce (5) Tin provided strong smell (5) Titaness turning out to be most unpleasant (8) Trees flourished, it's said, in leading industrial nations (5,5) Top course for bobby (4) Table support (7) This makes one eat like a horse (7) Thrash metal about right for band (6) Tenor, out of practice, is however reliable (6) Thin piece, sliver (5) Test (4) Trim round notice for procession (6) To line, add a new tree (5) Train expert in roses in a different way (6,7) Tunnel in progress? (5,3) Two ends have to be played to be fair (4-6) They make bouquets by hand, draping large gold heart in roses (8) Times alluding to England coming first is stirring (8) Thin French pancakes (6) Trains heading for Euston with fees to carry pet (8) Tube is heading north, getting call to leave east (6) Temporary relief (7) Tavern's opening has beer enthusiasts returning — it's over the road? (6) Tango to mimic Diet Coke, regularly finding means of copying pop (4,4) Take away dude misbehaving in front of court (6) Trouble from school next to motorway — that is loud (8) This minute chicken's split at the back? (2,3,4) Tap or tango (5) Team from busy Cheshire station on the air (4) Transmissions from an English port in case of hostilities (9) The Return of the ___ , 1878 Thomas Hardy novel (6) Touch (4) Travelling salesperson (abbr) (3) The one expensive motor cuts power (2,5) Transport valuable metal criminal stashed in vacant house (7) Two setters in water — this keeps us dry (9) The ultimate customer (3,4) Takes liberties quietly and then gets back to business (8) To sit down outside wood is most foolish (7) Too sad, the fragments belonging to a nation (9) Talk about exercise in run (7) The study of fossils (13) Tangle (4) Thrashed (8) Too many laid into such a pudding? (4-5) Tempt to enter apprenticeship (6) Thankfulness (9) Thin slice (6) Time for an old political journalist (3) Take off after sign of approval — lounge finally is carpeted (6,3) Thailand? I'm confident it's mainly Buddhist (5) Time went quickly when discussing complaint (4,3) Told Pip to give up (4) Take (an exam) again (5) They're mine workers on leave (5,3) Trendy bright female, at heart, is a poser (6) Trained guardians removing grid where it gets quite hot (5) Troop learns to avoid the regular drinkers (6) Trips (7) Twilight (4) Turn to corner to fix things (3-3) They're put down on canvas? Beat one's that's run out of craft in the main? (8) Training part that's boring (5,3) Tinker's follower? (6) Type of tuna (8) Trespass (8) Type of flatfish (6) Text of an opera (8) Trollope's fictional cathedral city (10) Traversed (7) Tanned hide (7) This writer lacked a single bit of inspiration? You surprise me! (1,3,2,4) Turn upside down (6) TV (informal) (5) Type of tyre (6) Took a dip, evenly spread, having too much on one's plate (7) Transience of intrinsic nature said to follow Welshman (11) Torn (6) They help to run vessel laden with fish (6) This person's overturned umpire's rule (8) Tech trouble ends in god-awful irritation (6) Things to cover (that may be hidden?) (6) Thought to have left out light meal (9) Transport official parking in trendy part of town (9) To show fear, ruler cried out (5) Team ban that's not part of the main article (7) Throughout the text (6) Top darts score? (6) Team always has large number following (7) Taken plenty turning over both of 18's banks (6) Turning pale, question filling for dental problem (6) Total possessions — type of car (6) Tail bone (6) Time to take a different position in the issue of sight (5) Tips of shark's teeth: evil, edged like a sword (5) Traps set for little fish (5) Temporary setback (6) That won't be a problem (2,5) Titillating (5) Tortilla chips topped with melted cheese and spices (6) Transparent panel inserted in an otherwise opaque material (6) Time to remember rising in Dublin and Rome? (6) Top actress gained ally in play about drama's opening (7,4) Three-day rock festival held at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, NY (9) Tool for turning or lifting grass fodder (7) Tibetan or Mongolian priest (4) Timber turned out beautifully (6) Through these you can see jockey ride lions — wow! (5,7) Try underground in trade, reversing basic principles (6,5) To begin with, lack of energy overwhelms wild fling's durability (4,4) Truncheon William shortened, adding wedge perhaps (5,4) Tailor (tiny and agile) creates warm atmosphere (9) Tense and nervous (2,4) Take control by force (5) This ham's potentially a huge success (5,3) Thrillers maybe shot while in Glasgow (6)