| AFOOLSERRAND | Looking for a bucket of steam is key to 21 across - and that's the message (1,4'1,6) |
| GIVEMELIBERTY | Start to a famous March 1775 speech given in reaction to 21-Across and more |
| CHIEFSUSPECT | The Boys in Blue think she did it for 21 across and that's not quite right (5,7) |
| RANGE | Place for a bucket of balls |
| TELEGRAM | Great elm rotting - that's the message |
| DRINKSLIKEAFISH | 12 and 10 across providing answer to 24 across - and that's why you'll always catch that sort in the pub (6,4,1,4) |
| MAYOR | He's right behind "8 Across", and that's official! (5) |
| STIRRUPPUMPS | Hand-operated devices for putting out fires, set in a bucket of water (7,5) |
| APPLE | Autumnally bobbed from a bucket of water with one's teeth or placed on a stick and coated in toffee, a pome related to the medlar, pear and quince; or, the wood of said fruit's tree (5) |
| BOOKREVIEWER | Is critical of those telling stories to most of those in 21 across and a fair amount of the rest at The Observer (4,8) |
| STIRRUPPUMP | A hand-operated device for putting out fires, set in a bucket of water and held firm by placing a foot on a bracket (7,4) |
| DESMID | Studied by a microscopist, a green alga whose presence in a pond, river or steam is often a bioindicator of fresh or unpolluted water (6) |
| BOB | Robert's nickname (or to dip your head in a bucket of water in search of an apple) |
| WINECOOLER | A bucket of ice for a merlot |
| DIRTYTRICK | Making a bucket of soot fall on you when you open the door? (5,5) |
| SALTLAKECITY | Nearly all of 21 across and 3 down briefly go to, for instance, West Jordan - the large conurbation that's in Utah (4,4,4) |
| STY | Place where a farmer might throw a bucket of slop |
| PAIL | What is another name for a bucket (4) |
| CIVILSERVICE | Ceremony for 21 across and another with members of Government administration (5,7) |
| KEEPONESHEAD | Refuse to be baited by individual in 21 across and The Crown (4,3'1,4) |
