2: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)
3: Curse the mother country? (9)
4: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)
5: New Testament stories about gifts (7)
6: Evil, as written about a discolouration (7)
8: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)
9: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)