| PRESERVERS | Those who prevent fatalities from blunt instruments! (4-10) (See 20D) |
| LIFE | Those who prevent fatalities from blunt instruments! (4-10) (See 15A) |
| WRIGHT | One who builds the vessel properly, we hear (10) (see 15D) (see 17A) |
| SHIP | One who builds the vessel properly, we hear (10) (see 15D) |
| THEFAST | 1962 comedy starring James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips (3,4,4) (See 20D) |
| MONA | 1986 crime drama film starring Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson (4,4) (see 20D) |
| KILL | 2011 horror film starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring (4,4) (see 20D) |
| DEFENSE | Players who prevent the other team from scoring (7) |
| COSH | During fiasco, sheltered from blunt weapon (4) |
| FOILS | Frustrates blunt instruments in hand-to-hand combat (5) |
| SPIN | 1996-2002 US television sitcom for which Michael J Fox and Charlie Sheen won Golden Globe awards (4,4) (see 20D) |
| GROUNDTACKLES | Football players who prevent boats from moving? |
| ECCLES | British pastry with a filling of dried fruit (6,4) (see 20D) |
| THOUGHTS | Romantic ideas should be found in loft? Shove off! (8,2,4) (see 20D) |
| TOWARDS | 1944 novel by Agatha Christie (7,4) (see 20D) |
| TSAAGENTS | Airport employees who prevent terrorist attacks by yelling at you to take your shoes off |
| WINDINSTRUMENT | Endlessly wine and dine people in bar? Blow that! (4, 10) |
| SELFEMPLOYMENT | Working on his own, MP feels rotten - only met nuts! (4-10) |
| SELFINDULGENCE | Fled, having arranged gun license? Hedonism! (4-10) |
| HIGHHANDEDNESS | He'd tampered with NHS headings, such arrogant disregard for others! (4-10) |
