| PRATTLERS | They gossip a lot - but quietly, the snakes! (9) |
| TAIPAN | Brown takes in top class quietly, the snake (6) |
| TELLERS | They gossip when handling our money? (7) |
| PREFERRED | Had rather seen how quietly the referee went wrong (9) |
| ALTARTOMB | Memorial being composed (but quietly dropped) about hooker |
| GETAROUND | Travel a lot, but bypass (3,6) |
| TORMENTED | Distressed rodent met snakes! (9) |
| INCUMBUNT | (Two words, with 6d) "Angues | ____ ____" (Aeneid 2.204-5) the snakes lie on.... |
| VIPERS | Royalty surrounded by bigwigs ___ the snakes! (6) |
| ADDERS | You can count on them - the snakes! (6) |
| ASPS | Pass round the snakes! (4) |
| SERIEMA | There are two types of this bird that live in South America. They eat snakes, which they kill by banging the snakes' heads on the ground. They can fly, but they prefer to escape danger by running away |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| CAUSERIE | French word for a chat or a gossip; a conversational article on a literary subject or art; or, an informal essay on any given topic (8) |
| DISHRAG | Gossip + a paper that publishes gossip |
| CURE | They curse a lot but a remedy is available |
| PRECEDE | Take the lead but quietly drop back later (7) |
| PATTERN | Move rapidly but quietly to the north, for example |
| CORNISH | I'm a head teacher from Christon -- I've moved around a lot, but you can still tell I'm from somewhere in the West Country (7) |
| JLO | She used to have a little, now she has a lot, but she's still Jenny, Jenny from the block |
