| TIPPEX | Lean muscles, we hear, cover for a multitude of sins (6) |
| ROTATE | Dear, we hear, covers old clothes to get around (6) |
| CRIMEWAVE | Review MC concocted covers a multitude of sins |
| GORDON | "Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use." She was an actress and co-screenwriter for the 1949 film Adam's Rib. |
| SINEWY | Having strong and lean muscles (6) |
| OVERREACH | Do too much to hear cover version (9) |
| ROPEY | Like strong, lean muscles |
| ATTRIBUTES | Where you may hear cover songs |
| IPETER | ". . . cover the multitude of sins" source |
| SCHOOL | Academy; coterie of artists; or, a multitude of fish or sea mammals (6) |
| FANOUT | Spread in a multitude of directions (3,3) |
| DEADLY | Kind of sins (6) |
| LEGION | Celebrated person entertains, say, a multitude (6) |
| OFSINS | Cover a multitude ___ |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| STREAMER | One of a multitude of colourful paper strips ejected from a party popper; a pennon; or, a headline (8) |
| DROVE | A multitude of cattle or oxen herded together; a stonemason's chisel; or, a group of hares (5) |
| CURRANT | Any of several garden ribes bearing strigs of small tart black, red or white edible berries; or, each of a multitude of raisin-like dried grapes used to flavour buns, garibaldis, puddings, rock cakes, |
| SHOAL | In oceanography, a sandbank; or, a multitude of fish swimming together, especially as a social group |
| KNOTWORK | A carving or pattern in interlaced forms; or, an ornamental piece, such as macrame, consisting of a multitude of intertwined cords (8) |
