| Snag — trap |
| Parody — show with striptease? |
| Aid Hal (anag) — flower with showy heads |
| Accept blame without beefing |
| Accepted without question |
| Aromatic herb — Timcan't (anag) |
| Infantry — unit of linear measure |
| Act — exploit |
| Confused — on the briny |
| Seabird — glutton |
| Ali had (anag) — showy flower |
| Ability to drink alcohol without evident drunkenness |
| It transfers property without liabilities |
| Southern African plant of the lily family — haunts a gap (anag) |
| Agrees without speaking |
| Creative or visionary, without immediate value |
| Alliance — old measure of distance |
| Snob failed (anag) — extremely difficult situation |
| Hamlet" extras |
| Iris adapts (anag) — indoor plant |
| Tummy sound — discover (an illicit activity) |
| Former US vice-president — dialect way of pronouncing R |
| Start of an elementary lesson |
| Ancient Egyptian symbol of life — khan (anag) |
| Elementary gases |
| Part of the London borough of Ealing — British historian, d. 1902 |
| Rubbish — baby animals |
| Anglo-Saxon magistrate — female bird — pass (a rope) through a hole |
| Satirize without mercy |
| Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme |