| Clues down |
| 1 | Assist man with record (4) |
| 2 | Lecturer’s to study queen (6) |
| 3 | A job where you hive off the profits? (10) |
| 4 | Nuts? Quite the reverse! The northern chap’s a performer of dangerous acts (8) |
| 5 | Officer commanding upper-class household god is concerned with vision (6) |
| 6 | Money, we hear, is raised when we’re young (4) |
| 7 | Evil leer, maybe, could wake you up (8) |
| 8 | Poultry she disturbed found on furniture (10) |
| 14 | Bare fact I’d changed and made up (10) |
| 16 | Exploding, bursting half of each power source (3,7) |
| 18 | Learned to adjust tie later (8) |
| 19 | Sticky ribbon – useful for making kites? (8) |
| 21 | Lizard appears as leaders of infantry go under a narrow archway (6) |
| 23 | I get honour, taking vitamin and drink (6) |
| 25 | Harvest diseased fruit from orchard (4) |
| 27 | Stuck with unfortunate diet (4) |
