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TRANSITIONOrganised demo embraces nothing to support Trump's lead in changing States DIPPEDCONESoft-serve treat with a chocolate shell ESCRITOIREWriting desk CANISMAJORSee 7 DONCHEADLE"House of Lies" star EPITOMISESIs personification of India featured in free-form poems I set? DESERTLYNXLeave audible interconnected trail, perhaps, for sharp-eared predator TERRYWOGANSee 32 REPERTOIREPerformer's body of work GROUSEMOORGame up here when the shooting starts? FIRSTOFALLIf frost damaged everything to start with SPIROGRAPHDevice geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes FRANCISCANFollowing old money, I look for a monk VALOROUSLYA lecturer facing men in very old university, cunning in a heroic manner (10)