| WELLKNOWN | Fine knot to have in the hand of the famous (4-5) |
| JERUSALEM | It would be "a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord," to Isaiah |
| NIKE | Goddess in the hand of the statue of Athena in the |
| CROWSFOOT | Knot to connect elastic to pole rig (*or soft cow!) (5,4) |
| REIGN | ... of Terror, period of the French Revolution when supreme power was in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety and the Jacobins (5) |
| BACCARAT | Gambling card game, the aim of which is to form a hand whose point value is nearer to nine than the hand of the banker (8) |
| BELOWDECKS | Where you'd expect to find underground boss - in the hands of the dealers downstairs in The Yacht (5,5) |
| PISTOL | Plot is twisted in the hand of the starter (6) |
| OLIGOPOLY | A market where control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers (9) |
| TARTAN | Imagines leaving Tasmanian Tiger in Scotland in the hands of the man of the cloth (6) |
| SMELLARAT | Suspect put everything back in the hands of master criminal (5,1,3) |
| OUTSTRETCHED | The hand of the catcher in mid-air - or the prisoner in jail longer than another? (12) |
| HALFHITCH | *One of the easeist knots to learn |
| IDENTIKIT | It tied ink in knots to make police picture (9) |
| STABILISE | Ties Basil in knots to add security (9) |
| TROWEL | The foreign ingredient used in beer production raised in the hands of the gardener (6) |
| MAINS | Utilities providers in the hands of the French, making 28Ac in 13Ac (5) |
| INSOLVENT | Nine volts twitching in the hands of recievers (9) |
| KHARTOUM | Sudanese city where General Gordon met a sticky end in the 1880s at the hand of the Mahdi and his fo |
| TAROT | Count admits blood type is right - it's from the hand of the fortune-teller (5) |
