| HAVEITALL | Achieve balance between career and family, in a cliche |
| GHERKIN | It's great for that woman and family in a bit of a pickle (7) |
| HAPPYMEDIUM | Dwarf means to achieve balance between extremes (5,6) |
| LONGROAD | What may lie ahead, in a cliche |
| ANI | Team's lack, in a cliche |
| ROME | Long building project, in a cliche |
| NATIVES | The restless ones, in a cliche |
| HASITALL | Manages to balance success in work and family, in an idiom |
| CHOICE | Word, with "gather, select" at its heart, for one's preference in anything from career and clothes to a plum or a cherry Bakewell tart (6) |
| GOESFAR | Succeeds in one's career and travels a good distance |
| DRESSMAKING | Craft to prepare mother and family in need of 1,000 pounds (11) |
| ZPG | Result of a balance between the birth and death rates: Abbr. |
| UNDERWOOD | Carrie who tweeted on Friday: "Rest in peace, Tony...It was truly a great honor of my career and of my life to get to share the stage with you" |
| FULVIA | Before the play begins, Antony has left his wife and family in Rome. What is the name of Antony's wife? |
| SYMMETRY | Shady extremists give a couple of grand to middlemen - an attempt to achieve balance? |
| AKSHARDHAM | Temple near Yamuna riverbank visited by US vice president J D Vance and family in Delhi. (10) |
| APPEARANCES | Continues a stage career and maintains respectability (5,2,11) (See 22A) |
| KEEPSUP | Continues a stage career and maintains respectability (5,2,11) (See 15A) |
| KEEPINGUP | Continuing a stage career and maintaining one's respectability (7,2,11) |
| EQUIPOISE | Supply required by French department to achieve balance (9) |
