| Clues down |
| 1 | Vein of fat, perhaps, in cut of meat – that’s about right (6) |
| 2 | Pinch head off to make short length (4) |
| 3 | Restrains the Spanish girl (6) |
| 4 | False god is lazy, they say (4) |
| 5 | Weak condition of European river rising in swamp, submerging English ship (10) |
| 6 | Pets cross over threshold (8) |
| 7 | Indicating to record everyone’s arrived? Good! (10) |
| 8 | Unfortunate dame clutching facial feature cut to shape in workshop (8) |
| 14 | Commanding officer turns up with most of money in circulation, to be put on start of evening’s event (10) |
| 15 | Where one may get Meals on Wheels? (6-4) |
| 17 | Shapes styles (8) |
| 18 | Harvest is lodged in building at her farm (8) |
| 22 | Misshapen loaf in a tin initially not sinking (6) |
| 23 | Have high opinion of poster on muddy patch (6) |
| 25 | Drag eccentric leader to toboggan (4) |
| 27 | Start of corrosion seen on trendy item for computer (4) |
