ACROSS
Happy to be told not to start (6) Musical game (5) Zero about strange lab being sweet (7) Villain in Cairo, guessing Peculiar, losing American trinket (5) Resentment one controlled in ship (7) Group has right to my last drink (6) Crime making one fly in a panic (6) Walks with small monsters (7) Quiet chat about material reinforcement (5) Insinuate – like a rascal? (5) Choose diamonds first, then mountaineering gear (3,4) Sodium, sulphur and aluminium in one's nose (5) Festival involved a steer (6)