| HAMMERANDSICKLE | Old standard typically in the hands of The Carpenters as well as those in 26 across (6,3,6) |
| SHORTANDSWEET | Brief impolite type as well as those in 30 across (5,3,5) |
| 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) |
| GOLDENHANDSHAKE | Describes precious type in 24 across and most of those in 26 across for those retiring types in Labour (6,9) |
| TABLESANDCHAIRS | They're required in 11 across by the stockholders losing the head as well as those running the committees (6,3,6) |
| TARTAN | Imagines leaving Tasmanian Tiger in Scotland in the hands of the man of the cloth (6) |
| FISHANDCHIPS | The Italians make them for the Irish with the sharks as well as those close to Nick's (4,3,5) |
| BELOWDECKS | Where you'd expect to find underground boss - in the hands of the dealers downstairs in The Yacht (5,5) |
| TROWEL | The foreign ingredient used in beer production raised in the hands of the gardener (6) |
| SHORTHANDTYPIST | Secretary to most of those in 26 across, 24 across and 8 across (9,6) |
| NIKE | Goddess in the hand of the statue of Athena in the |
| CAMERA | A cream roll in the hands of the one calling the shots (6) |
| MAINS | Utilities providers in the hands of the French, making 28Ac in 13Ac (5) |
| OUTSTRETCHED | The hand of the catcher in mid-air - or the prisoner in jail longer than another? (12) |
| HITTHERIGHTNOTE | Suitably stick to the arrangement perhaps and knock article by most of those in 26 across and 24 across (3,3,5,4) |
| SMOKEANDMIRRORS | Deception produced by most of those in 26 across and 8 across going to school (5,3,7) |
| ADAM | Forename of the carpenter in a novel described as "full of the breath of cows and scent of hay" by its author George Eliot (4) |
| SPRAYCAN | Bridge overlooks fish caught and in the hands of the graffiti artist (5,3) |
| KHARTOUM | Sudanese city where General Gordon met a sticky end in the 1880s at the hand of the Mahdi and his fo |
| JERUSALEM | It would be "a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord," to Isaiah |
