FRI D Mail No. 14,363

[bryand]

please help me to get started!
5a) Recurring themes fit awkardly into Mail on Sunday (6)
2d) CIA loyalist goes to pieces in cushy state refuge (9,6)
7d) Red sympathiser left Orwell worried about composer (6,9)
Sorry I have no letters.

[Wharton]

5a motifs

[thistles]

2d. political asylum

[glasman]

7d Fellow traveller

[thistles]

7d. fellow traveller

[dannyk13]

5a.Motifs
2d.Political asylum( anagram of cia loyalist in plum)
7d.Fellow traveller (Anagram of left orwell round ravel)

[bryand]

Thankyou Wharton, thistles, glasman and dannyk13 for your prompt and informative help. If 1a) is Tel Aviv what is 4d) I cannot think of Mafia boss starting with V. (Full clue: Mafia brought in the former senior member - 5)

[thistles]

iDOWN is tel aviv

[dannyk13]

4d. Do ye n

[bryand]

Thankyou again thistles and dannyk13