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Attacks just as one starts
If he’s dropped, can’t the programme get under way?
Deserve, you say, to get the bird
Half even enrol when you order them to
After a while it starts eating and it’s very destructive
Devastated at having contributed to the egg mountain?
The alteration having damaged, meant to repair the interior
Hires for a song, to get involved in crime
A shrew yours truly is about to take in hand
A cold, man? Just take an aspirin for it!
With the punch-up at an end, is gradually forgotten
Quite happy about, in Europe?
Tip that made the beast cross
Horrified sat, trembling, beside the awful hag
Foreigner the child and I had seen running
Are the people in Twinhills plagued by him?
Rounded up, were quite unruffled
“Denizen of cheap lodging house,” I enter in the file
Climbs aboard, soon to find what one’s seeking?
Scuttle in very little water
When I can’t break into the safe, contrive to use my wiles
Get out of the crate: it disintegrated
In addition to being no less fit then
Does it always make the straphanger laugh?
Resumptions of the shenanigans
A bit of luck during the hitting of the ball?
Claim for support, financially
When it’s shot, does everyone disperse?
A firm order to dispose of rust
Going round dressed like a priest
Mean to get treatment – I am in a state
Though most sensible, is in an awful stew
Wreck a gentleman got trapped in
Talked about, as one embarked on a high-cholesterol diet
Plunge in to get submerged. It’s simply lovely
Had a launch that was blinking rotten!
I get a raven trained so it’s not eating worms
Reduced the commission
Stopped working, dear, to take a break inside
A friend to pass the time with
At last the roses are pruned and one gives one’s approval
Will call again at about five, it is arranged
“Mere tools,” one says menacingly
There’s a box right by the hole