| 20 answers for: Dairyman/woman's daily journey on their float, to ... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| MILKROUND | Dairyman/woman's daily journey on their float, to deliver the bottled lactation of a cow or even a goat (4,5) |
| MILKRUN | Pertaining to the safe regular round of a dairyman/woman, a term for a routine flight or other uneventful journey or mission (4,3) |
| LYDIA | A woman's daily round (5) |
| SODA | Therefore dad hasn't finished the bottled water (4) |
| TRIPE | As food, the stomach lining of a cow or other ruminant |
| HOOF | Foot of a cow or horse, eg |
| FARMSTEAD | An agriculturist, crofter, dairyman/woman or granger's house, place or toun together with its barns, granaries, milking parlour, stables and yards (9) |
| SAMPLE | A sip of wine, specimen of blood, taste of cheese or even a test ride on a bike - a word for a small quantity to show what the whole is like (6) |
| CHOKER | An asphyxiator, strangler or throttler, whether a lump in the throat, necklace, person or even a vegetable in the form of a globe; or, tight stock or collar attached to a clerical robe (6) |
| REFRESH | A keyboard's action of F5; or, to give new life or vigour to a drink, one's make-up or even a dusty archive (7) |
| SUGAR | A sweet lump in a bowl or proverbial marital chair, the former for dulcifying food/drink and the latter for honeying one's daily journey or life's fare (5) |
| CLAMSHELL | A cargo door, cockpit canopy, eyelid, flip phone, laptop, takeaway box or even a type of jawed excavating bucket on a crane/truck, all reminiscent of a "vongola's" hinged shuck (9) |
| HAMELLDAEME | The holiday destination of choice for Scots unable to afford the Costas or even a trip Doon the Watter (11) |
| EDWARD | King who abdicated for love; or, the original name of A A Milne's silly old bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, who floats to fetch honey in a tree, high up above (6) |
| CHICANERY | A tricky word, from either French legal quibbling or a golf-like game of mall, for artifice, cheating, deception, guile, sharp practice or wile, towards an enemy or even a pal (9) |
| TOSS | Flip something up into the air (it might be a coin or even a salad or a pancake) (4) |
| ABBEY | Home or building for a friar-like prior, a lazy lubber monk, a monastic choir or even a Downton squire (5) |
| COMMUTE | To reduce severity of the punishment, make AC/DC split the daily journey (7) |
| COCOZELLE | Name, from "cocoon" or "little bag", for soft floss silk or thread with which to embroider a fine garment, handkerchief, linen or even a rag (9) |
| SIGN | An emblem, horoscope identifier, plus/minus, portent such as a lark, shopfront message, silent hand gesture, symptom to hark, trace/trail of an animal or even a UFO's flash in the dark, all from "toke |
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