| CARAVANNER | "Droopy awnings are out and only spirit-level precision works" (BBC2's description of its ____ of the Year programmes shown in 2017) |
| INSTRUMENT | Means of precision work (or music-making) (10) |
| MUTTER | Indistinctly state a thousand are out-and-out (6) |
| UTTER | Say the words that are out-and-out (5) |
| REFILLS | About fifty rifles are out and one loads them again (7) |
| SOUL | Sounds as if it's the only spirit (4) |
| SOLE | Only spirit mentioned? |
| ABNEY | An - level is a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube (5) |
| OLIVE | Europe boasts of its ___ _ _ _ oil; The Philippines of its coconut oil |
| SPHERES | Ancient idea that saw the movement of the planets in the heavens as a kind of dance, the music of th |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| MOVINGVAN | Relocation aid, and a description of its progress through this puzzle |
| YOUTH | "The foundation of every state is the education of its ___": Diogenes |
| BALTO | In 1925 he served as the lead sled dog for a life-saving medical delivery from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, where people were dying of diphtheria. He and his fellow dogs navigated the last stretch of th |
| BUBBLE | A globule of air as the indicator in a spirit level; a glass/plastic dome; a place protected from unpleasant reality; or, a "house of cards" (6) |
| URINE | Source of Methylsuifonylmethane (MSM), a patented substance said to enhance moisture retention of th |
| GETAROOM | "Whoa! Do that somewhere else!" ... which hints at what can be shared by the beginning and end of th |
| STEPS | Alfred Hitchcock directed the film version of John Buchan's mystery thriller about thirty nine of th |
| FROMHELLITCAME | 1957 horror film of which Leonard Maltin wrote, "As walking-tree movies go, this is at the top of th |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of th |
