| BULLETTRAINS | Notices found across school for HS2 requirements (6,6) |
| DEADSEA | Notices found in Scottish river area and lake (4,3) |
| LYMINGTON | Only Ming to notice found in south coast resort (9) |
| HYBRID | Type of Bill that goes through Parliament - for example, that for HS2 Phase 1 (6) |
| SPEEDOMETER | Do peers meet to get involved in gauge for HS2? |
| HILLIER | Surname of Public Accounts Committee chair, who has criticised the DfT over plans for HS2 at Euston (7) |
| TRICKORTREAT | What's found 'Across' nine other Across answers |
| TRIPODAL | Contest to go across school with three legs? (8) |
| APPLAUSE | Approval shown for fruit found across Australia (8) |
| TRIBUTES | Panegyrics to Shoshone and Navajo, for example, found across Utah (8) |
| CURZON | __ Street, the intended Birmingham terminus for the HS2 line (6) |
| AWASTE | Often a way some rubbished HS2, for example (1,5,2,5) |
| OFMONEY | Often a way some rubbished HS2, for example (1,5,2,5) |
| DROLL | Amusing child's toy found across river (0,5) |
| UNFOLD | Drunk found across line, spread out (6) |
| SLENDER | Remote transmitter found across lake (7) |
| DST | Timely letters found "across" the |
| READYMIX | Recipe ingredients x-rayed, suspiciously found across motorway (5-3) |
| ELVER | Swimmer always found across lake (5) |
| ASPCA | Rescuer found 'across' the five longest answers |
