Perhaps Mark once confused grocer with funny rice Perhaps cowboy managed singer Period of alcoholic abstinence explaining losses in answers to asterisked clues (3,7) Place whose population is zero (5,4) Plain and clear cops good with this on occasion Plane fig. PlusWord No 595 Popular game for children (5,4) Port a grand perjurer opens around one Postman with a black-and-white cat (3) Potato or seat Powerful director supporting rough bar etc needing renovation (12) Predator’s back amidst drunken revelry Prepare for new demands (4,2) Prison block where lawyer is keeping close to Laurence Fox Prison of fire Prizefighter's fist coverings Pro hoops group: Abbr. Problem around English hospital with manual worker slow to act? (10) Problem in a kettle is palaver (not half!) (3) Proclamation reader (6) Promise; stick (4) Protest about new nuisance — like those on HS2 say Puss's pantomime accessories (5) Put back brightly coloured pile for crane (7) Pain Pass (of time) Puss's pantomime accessories Parisian university in pain about German city (8) Personally, I felt, he wants NHS reformed (2,3,5) Picked up knacks to make legwear (6) Poisoned, filled with cynicism initially - is one? (7) Priest with AA could be a leech ____ paper, item on which voters indicate their choice in an election (6) Player in Pontefract orchestra Pasture "Peek___!" Perplexed - after being dismissed by keeper? (7) Played amorously and got lifted right out of it. (7) Paint applications Pakistan's chief river Pisa place Pundits' columns Put up, as a portrait Picnic spoiler Plant deeply Pollo partner Packs (down) Passes quickly Polka band instrument Part of AD Pawnbroker's pledge Peelers, graters, whisks, spatulas, etc. Place to get a hero Plastic surgery? PreEaster fast "Pressure" singer Lennox Peers to demand rent? Will you stand for it? (9) Postmortem? (7) "Pain at the good fortune of others," per Aristotle Parking app alternative Parts always carried by a sea-going vessel Pasta akin to fusilli Perp's patterns, for short Pet device turned out to be illusory (9) Pharma dept. Pixar film that takes place in space Play set? Playing cards that are passed around (6) Possibly edit the weight-loss plan (4) Pot cover-up, in Britian "Previously on ..." clips Put upper-class conservative back, upset (3-2) Possible reply to 'Why?' Pulled one's weight? Piglets' mom Period of time Prefix for "pod" or "cycle" Palindromic boat Pixar clownfish Profs' helpers "Piece of cake!" Pile of bricks (5) Pungent seed Put the fat on fire for a set turn, perhaps? (5) ___ Peace Prize (5) Part of a dance routine Part of many Oscar category names Penetrative particles from interstellar space (6,4) Period characterised by the development of ferrous equipment (4,3) Piece of material to guard a wheel against dirt (7) Pleasing equality of balance (8) Port and resort town on the east coast of Cyprus (9) Parrots taken from trucks heartlessly (6) Prescribed form of ceremony for union in Iranian capital (6) Part of a mountain Pouter's expression Pres. Lincoln Part 4 of quip: 4 wds. Particular groups Penguins and ostriches can't do it Persian male given name Pink cocktail for short Place for stopand-go traffic? Pounded a tack Power plant component Preparation of rootstock Prison bigwig Pull; influence Puts into confinement ___ pitch - pong, table tennis (4) Parts of mouth damaged, causing speech impediment (4) Pictured star (7,6) Place where they grow apples or silverbeet (7) Plainly dressed, frumpish (5) Plant secretions Professional name of electronica musician Jian Kellett Liew (5) Perhaps around 95 turned back time Playful repartee or banter Point eventually voided during round played Point to most staff abstains from eating Popular stripper on her uppers? Priests page altar boys at last Ps ... I'm ahead of those little devils Party work (6) Place or state of perfection (6) Piano cousins Plant with regret (3) Plot could result in danger (6) 500 pigeons at sea should be setting down (8) Pacifist is terribly nice in summit (8) Paralysing viral illness Part inside a bell (7) Performed without instrumental accompaniment (1,8) Period of no rain (7) Person with much experience Plants with leafy fronds Plot outline, eg Poorly-managed embassy providing refuge for large crowd (8) Position just off the podium (6) Put between the pages, ... in the book Pilot officer manufactured ointment (6) Possibly least unit of magnetic flux density (5) Paula ___, former "American Idol" judge Physique, slangily ___ Poindexter, David Johansen's fictional alter-ego that he used as a pseudonym Prayer closing word Porridge grain Playful puppy's bites Prefix with "puncture" or "pressure" Parka sleeve Performed poorly, informally Provoked Prefix with conscious Popcorn seasoning Plunder Poses a question Point a set out Prunes have to manage Playful act Previous day Prickly bush Posture Prod Primate Pitch tents Prefix with violet or violent Pampering place Place whose population is zero Plant study Promise; stick Push-button device Play containing one old 3-D scene (7) Pertaining to treating irregularities of the teeth Proper drink I have, being unsophisticated Polish nurse once entertaining ambassador Profile that is restricting publication Pair observed in theatre favoured massage of Austrian musician? (6,6) Parrot is evolving into a predator Parson last to be moved in change in order Part of a calyx; pales (anag.) (5) Part of a peanut butter jar Part of speech showing no love for sister (3) Partially hidden, going round selling weed (9) Party took up heartless song? That's something peculiar (6) Peel, rind People employed to lure others into a snare (6) Pepe Le Pew Pernod flavouring Person to whom property is transferred Person trained in CPR Person who steals a pound Personification of greed and the worship of money Petty hiding sailor's navigational aid? (9) Petty quarrel with a New York jeweller Picked up inflatable mattress to go into hiding (3,3) Pigeon in middle of arboretum (5) Pincer movement caught thief heading for shopping mall (8) Place for valuables close, turning key fast Play (vacuous output) Lionel Richie song (7) Played basketball Played hooky Playwright, firstly ignored, removed description of alternating scenes? (8) Plunged into a pool headfirst PlusWord No 596 Point between NE and E (3) Poor in seven days if losing regularly Porky and fishy? (6) Port on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent Post first-class to reach Scottish island Prediction about request for container (6) Problem with a century plant Public transport head acquiring international company (8) Push the boat out taking in a show (6) Put restrictions on gang criminal Put underground around major city in country's central region Puts on some platforms Pro vote Politician Stevenson Portable bed Parodies Private __ (detective) Poses a question Pay out Piano piece Poodle or parrot Pair observed in theatre favoured massage of Austrian musician? Porky and fishy? Picked up inflatable mattress to go into hiding Pincer movement caught thief heading for shopping mall Public transport head acquiring international company Philistine giant killed by David in the Old Testament (7) Plant genus of the family Balsaminaceae that includes busy Lizzie, policeman's helmet etc. (9) ___ paper, item on which voters indicate their choice in an election (6) Practice in the ring Painter Chagall Provo's state “People Puzzler” channel Person named in a will Permitted, in Muslim diet Pub refreshment Praise effusively Possum of the comics Period of occupation Pantone's 2024 color of the year Part of minute particle upsetting boa's tum (7) Parts of airplanes or birds that enable flight Perp in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" Pouring sound