| OUTSTRETCHED | The hand of the catcher in mid-air ... or the prisoner in Mail longer than another? (12) |
| BITE | A short piece of information; a nip or sting; a morsel or quick snack; a feeling of cold in the air; or, the corrosive action of acid in etching (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) |
| NIKE | Goddess in the hand of the statue of Athena in the |
| SALINGER | What is the surname of the author of The Catcher in the Rye ? (8) |
| MASON | Author of the Inspector Hanaud novels including At the Villa Rose, The Prisoner in the Opal, They Wouldn't Be Chessmen and The House in Lordship Lane (5) |
| TARTAN | Imagines leaving Tasmanian Tiger in Scotland in the hands of the man of the cloth (6) |
| KITE | Accipitrine glede with a distinctive whistle or mew; a toy that floats in the air or the blue; or, a rapturous person, preying on me or you (4) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| DAVIDMCCALLUM | Scots actor who played the prisoner in charge of dispersing dirt from tunnels in 'The Great Escape' film (5,8) |
| BIANCA | Sister of Sonia Fowler who suffered at the hands of the late Reiss Colwell in EastEnders (6) |
| WELLKNOWN | Fine knot to have in the hand of the famous (4-5) |
| PISTOL | Plot is twisted in the hand of the starter (6) |
| FANS | Handheld concertinas for manually creating currents of air; or, the outspread train-feathers of peacocks and other birds (4) |
| JDSALINGER | Author of "The Catcher in the Rye" who used his first and middle initials: 3 wds. |
| TAROT | Count admits blood type is right - it's from the hand of the fortune-teller (5) |
