| NOSEDIVE | Learns, it's said, how to plunge headlong (8) |
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| REPEATED | Again said how one had an aftertaste as it did (8) |
| EXTOLLED | Rang at once and said how good it was (8) |
| SUBMERGE | To plunge, sink or dive below the surface of water (8) |
| RATLINES | In rigging the steps, learn it's different (8) |
| LATRINES | Heads learn it's unusual (8) |
| DEGAULLE | Which leader said "how can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" (2,6) |
| BLANCH | From French for "white", a word meaning to extract colour; to make celery pale through etiolation; or, to plunge almonds, tomatoes etc in boiling water to loosen their skin (6) |
| PLUMMET | Plunge headlong, having encountered Victoria to begin with (7) |
| DIP | To plunge temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid (3) |
| DEMERGERE | To plunge down; cf deponere stirpem, to plant |
| DIVE | Plunge headlong into water |
| LEAR | Who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| AMERIND | One said how he'd remain'd hopelessly in reserve (7) |
| WOTCHA | Witness said "How are you?" |
| PRAISED | Said how good a spider is at weaving (7) |
| ROASTED | Said how awful the ham was, cooked? (7) |
| KNOCKED | Said how awful it was one hadn't rung (7) |
| ORDAINS | Ron said how it makes him priestly |
