Cryptic Puzzle #10

by Jim Sherman

       
       
     
         
       
         
   
     
       
                                 

A.   A French school, saint, or maid (8)

B.   Hack around botany`s foremost, dead flower (9)

C.   Minimize loss of arch stronghold (8)

D.   Caustic man recalled (4)

E.   Poetic king of Australia, colloquially, said many
gone troppo (10)

F.   Wise president accepts Republican plain growth (9)

G.   Small step into the third dimension (5)

H.   Lively effects never disconcert (12)

I.   Mistakenly enter into keeping (9)

J.   Christian satyr takes time pursuing festive initiation
(8)

K.   Designation announced for a mountain (11)

L.   Yellowish permits back to front (6)

M.   A Great Lakes port? True, on the other hand not
forsaken by ocean (7)

N.   The old year, symbolically, is a hermit lost in
karma (6,4)

O.   Around the club, stupid people, as an example, act
naturally (8)

P.   Composed or declaimed about the wealthiest lacking
intelligence (12)

Q.   Repeat a short song with a ring to it (5)

R.   Fresh, say, primary ingredient in god`s food (9)

S.   Judges Dench and Blanchett featured in promos (11)

T.   House of worship excommunicated a celebrant (10)

U.   Show a prostitute going back into cruel treatment
(10)

V.   Hardened in feelings he died - a scoundrel in appropriate
surroundings (8)

W.   Barely there lingerie worn by one blonde (10)