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The letter before each clue does NOT refer to the first letter of the solution, but to a redundant letter in, or indicated by, the wordplay of the clue. This extra letter does not occur in the solution for that clue. For example:
A One bishop in grass finds animal leads to SQUIRRE(A)L. The puzzle is a jigsaw: fit the solutions in wherever they will go.
A I repeatedly will take French town for old people (5)
B Swan over for voucher (6)
C Follow the boat? It’s a wreck, possibly (5-3)
D The composer Sullivan a Whig? Mad, Mad! (7,8)
E Ecstatic celebration fails to finish worker (8)
F To rent fifty per cent is deadly (6)
G An empty space (part of roof that can be skirted) (9)
H Things uncertain and unknown holding back philosopher (7)
I Any who intervened distressed Y (5,3,3,4)
J Punch over punch – it’s repeated (5)
K Strong smell and taste of horse (7)
L T to get piece of empire (7)
M Nothing for last sort of cow (5)
N Obscure musician gets bird flu first (6)
O Food for artist and French writer (8)
P Kiss a snake, man! (6)
Q Blast quarry? Done all the time! (4-5)
R Type involved in disturbance is meanest (9)
S Strange eye condition involving a....(6)
T ... second bit of metal for game (5)
U Rulers’ model Indian crane (5)
V Loo opens for disgusting religious outsiders (8)
W Massage back (new advice included) (5)
X Return lied about tax? A minor matter (6)
Y The battle’s over mythical creature on occasion (9)
Z Quietly and indolently grasp point, obviously (7)
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