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abacus: Swearing from Swedish 70s pop band
abalone: Solo act from Swedish 70s pop band
abomination: A country which indulges in laying explosive devices
absent: Smell given off by stomach muscle
abstruse: Ceasefire in war between stomach muscles
allegro: A line of lower limbs
amen: Adult males who attain the highest grade in exams
amenity: A rather ungenerous hot drink
American: A jolly container
Americanise: A jolly container observes
baguette: Sack had dinner
banditry: Woody plant with bow legs
bank rate: Explosive box
beanstalk: Non-spherical legumes converse
bearskin: Large omnivorous mammal’s relatives
bidet: Twenty four hours in the life of a social insect
biweekly: Attracted to both sexes but in an unconvincing way
brassy: Watery expanse of women's upper clothing
broking: Monarch of one’s hip-hop group
busty: Hot drink on public transport
converse: Criminal poetry
cabaret: Arrangement of taxis
cannelloni: Enclose in a metal container a leg joint at a reduced height
carbohydrate: Frequency with which a vehicular arrow-shooting implement can be concealed
census: Feel us
chamois: False guitar distortion sound
circuit: Set of tools to create knights of the realm
cobra: Fellow undergarment for women
cocoa: Fellow fellow
concussed: Jailbird swore
daisy: Last letter of the American alphabet during waking hours
debate: Remove lure from hook
decamp: Get rid of effeminate behaviour
diarist: Change the colour of a hand/arm joint
discount: Insult Dracula
divest: Colour undergarment
donation: Country of female deer
dryad: Not a wet commercial
dunking: Manure monarch
dynasty: Suffer a terrible end
enquire: Become member of singing ensemble
Euro: I’m not going to propel this boat
exact: Get rid of effeminate behaviour
expect: Former spouse bitten repeatedly by bird
eye strain: Freezing locomotive
faeces: Oceans of charges
farcical: Distant harvesting tool
fiancé: Charge levied on oral contribution
finance: Penalise social insects
flighty: Hot drink drunk by winged insects
focus: Enemy insult
foreshore: Certainly
forfeit: But five can’t get in
friar: Chipmunk
futile: Not many decorate bathroom wall
gallows: Posh young lady is in debt
gastric: Sleight of hand with flammable vapour
gelignite: Set fire to sticky substance
gloomy: Adhere my person
goosy: Ocean of sticky stuff
groupie: Cultivated urine
hackneyed: Necessity for newspaper reporter
halo: Dried grass well down
Hebrews: Man makes tea/beer
helmet: Rendezvoused in Hades
herbicides: The woman as well
hightails: Altitude sickens
hip hop: Upper leg bone jump
horseflies: Description of Pegasus
hotels: Garden tool recounts
hundred: Fear of Attila
iambus: Subjective assertion of personal existence as mode of public transport
ice cold: First person declaration of act of castigation
icily: Ungrammatical first person admission of one’s lack of sense
impacts: Mischievous spirit performs
incense: Innate ability to find hotel
incognito: Leg joint with foot digit at interior of toothed wheel
indigents: Non-mainstream male toilet
inductee: Fashionable drink made from waterbirds
in-law: Trendy rule
instinct: Hotel smelled very bad ungrammatically
jargon: Glass container missing
juniper?: I didn’t touch her
keep up: Main baby dog
kinky: Monarch solution
knighthood: Nocturnal head covering
knowing: So can’t fly
lactose: Be deficient in foot digits
legate: Lower limb had dinner
light ale: Story of falsehood
limbo: Arm crossing
litotes: Hot drinks made from false foot digit
locomotion: Subdued confusion
macro: Be deficient in foot digits
mambo: Lady tie
manganese: Leg joints from a Japanese comic
matrix: Fun and games in late spring
methane: Tarzan refers to self as Scottish noble
microfilms: Speaker’s black bird uses a camcorder
mind out: Dig uncertainty out of the ground
miscount: Fail to meet Dracula
mountaineers: Aural organs of highlands
mousetrap: Belt for communist Chinese leader
naked: Young goat imitates horse
neon: Leg joint in operation
nitro: Line of seats in the dark
nomad: All sane
nubile: Latest invective
one-stop: No longer at the pinnacle
orchid: Mineral child
outcry: Weep more than
outfox: Expose bushy-tailed canine as gay
overhaul: Drag too much
ozone: District of debt
pacy: Give money to have a look
panicky: Pot yucky
paperknife: Give money according to cutting tool
papoose: Toddler comments on father’s activity in toilet
particle: Light-hearted stimulation with fingers at expected standard
peaty: Hot drink made from spherical legumes
perverse: Happy feline poetry
phoenix: Costs nothing to get in
picador: Choose an entrance
poultry: Get opinion of woody plant
précis: Speak to God to get eyes
pulpit: Drag hole
quadrant: Diatribe from one of four siblings of equal age
quayside: Door opening implement produced audible expression of longing or regret
rabies: Social winged insects capable of producing beams of light
rampant: One trouser leg for male sheep
ransack: Managed bag
reeking: Crown monarch again
refill: Underwater ridge infirm
retail therapy: Counselling for animal having its tail put back on
right angle: Cereal snarl-up
rope up: Propel young dog with oars
routines: Regret adolescence
rumpus: Cat drunk on Caribbean spirit
saline: Utter part of script
satiate: State woman had dinner
saucepan: Espied width
sciatic: Room at top of house for audible expressions of regret and longing
scintillate: Do wrong up to 20.00 hours
scrutineers: Copulate with metal aural organs
serialise: Visual organs for breakfast
sewer: Prosecutor
shorty: Hot drink at the waterside
slightest: Cunning examination
sorghum: Painful mouthpart
spiking: Monarch of secret agents; Bond
taco: In debt to the tune of a nail
tax exile: Island of copulation between nails
teacake: Hardwood pain
template: Short-term worker not on time
texting: Injury caused by cyber scorpion
throaty: Fling hot drink
tiny: Bind leg joint
tirade: Cravat robbery
toucan: But one can’t
trifling: Attempt throw
undefined: Discovery of knickers
undergo: Not travel far enough
unit: Exhort listener to make a woolly jumper
urchin: Make mistake with end of jaw
utilise: Exhortation to listener to plough optical organs
vagrant: Unfocussed diatribe
valiant: Lowland social insect
vampire: Anger of sexy woman
wake up: Calculate mass of drinking vessel
waxing: Smack and vocalise musically
werewolf: Enquiry as to lupine presence
windows: Moving air is in debt
work-ups: Used to be drinking vessels
