| Speed up, testing small swimmer? | 32 |
| Sea lion cub strangely introverted | 34 |
| Short demonstration reflected flag's disadvantage | 49 |
| Spiky creature can hide, craftily | 33 |
| Sideboard | 9 |
| Silica ---, drying agent often inserted in packaging | 52 |
| Spiritual intermediary or medicine man in certain indigenous religions | 70 |
| Stable incident has me turning prude, extremely embarrassed | 59 |
| Some empty out of the way resort area | 37 |
| Some swear thyme is blue | 24 |
| Sorry about worker shut up inside | 33 |
| Small group Elder perhaps notes outside hotel | 45 |
| Spinal bone | 11 |
| small dog | 9 |
| starting handle | 15 |
| soft food | 9 |
| sherpa's home | 13 |
| string | 6 |
| sugar plant | 11 |
| scoop | 5 |
| stinging insects | 16 |
| Spend recklessly | 16 |
| Spanish afternoon snooze | 24 |
| straight lines from circle's centre to circumference | 52 |
| spotted dog | 11 |
| scottish athlete who runs wearing sunglasses | 44 |
| such a professor's chair was founded by monarch | 47 |
| sunshade or mushroom | 20 |
| seer or prophet | 15 |
| set of three dots indicating omission in text | 45 |
| Some articulate feelings about librarian's penalty | 50 |
| Some schoolgirls returning to the White House | 45 |
| Self-restrained, but anger consumed afterwards? | 47 |
| Summary of soldiers' surrender | 30 |
| Surname of British actress Francesca | 36 |
| Surname of Gertrude, influential British garden designer | 56 |
| Strong green paste to eat with sushi | 36 |
| Second-place Olympic prize | 26 |
| Surname of the writer of the 1927 novel To the Lighthouse | 57 |
| Small coins | 11 |
| Shade of yellow | 15 |
| Swimming aid | 12 |
| Speak unclearly of defamation | 29 |
| Serve no moussaka portions ... it's full of poison | 50 |
| Substances for setting hair, eg | 31 |
| Supposed Himalayan being | 24 |
| Spiritual healer in a tribal society | 36 |
| Short sprint | 12 |
| South American plain | 20 |
| Single item | 11 |
| Short note | 10 |
| Stay in bed too long | 20 |
| Smooth out creases | 18 |
| Space exploration vehicle | 25 |
| Song-and-dance show | 19 |
| Song sung by one person | 23 |
| Sitcom interrupters | 19 |
| Sonic Dash game publisher | 25 |
| Sleepover wear, briefly | 23 |
| Singer with the 2021 hit Oh My God | 34 |
| Second-most populous country, after India | 41 |
| Spread oneself too .... [try to do too much] | 44 |
| Stopover places on many Caribbean cruises | 41 |
| Sound that may follow ooh | 25 |
| Singer who refused the Grammy she won for I Do Not Want What I haven't Got: 2 wds. | 82 |
| Second word in many fairy tales | 31 |
| Section of a subway train | 25 |
| Single unit of stock | 20 |
| Slang for terrific that was popular in the 1960s | 48 |
| Sicilian peak | 13 |
| Scary cry | 9 |
| Store boss [Abbr.] | 18 |
| Spare tire? | 11 |
| Smashing success | 16 |
| Stubborn beast | 14 |
| Sums things up? | 15 |
| Spiced tea drink | 16 |
| Swimmers' assignments | 21 |
| Sweden neighbor | 15 |
| Sweetener source | 16 |
| Ship staff | 10 |
| Sevilla's nation | 16 |
| Schnitzel meat | 14 |
| slope backward | 14 |
| slender support | 15 |
| showy plant | 11 |
| Single component | 16 |
| Salubrious | 10 |
| Splendid display | 16 |
| Sidewalk pedestrian | 19 |
| See for example wild birds | 26 |
| Suggestions for sunglasses | 26 |
| Strange negation for the daughter of Oedipus | 44 |
| Scold head of department for being crafty | 41 |
| Stood up for a woman | 20 |
| Sends on some members of the team | 33 |
| Still used as a name for a US lake | 34 |
| Sound rebound | 13 |
| Scale notes | 11 |
| Singer Ross | 11 |
| Sheltered, to a sailor | 22 |
| Stuck | 5 |
| Staff member | 12 |
| Sevareid and Ambler | 19 |
| sit next to | 11 |
| secondary account on social media | 33 |
| sentry's "stop!" | 16 |
| self-storage rentals | 20 |
| singer paul in the documentary short "lonely boy" | 49 |
| sprang up | 9 |
| super cute | 10 |
| support at the highest level | 28 |
| status as a candidate | 21 |
| shelter in certain establishments | 33 |
| substitution of ten clips made badly | 36 |
| shy, returning to turn the light down | 37 |
| smoking jacket? | 15 |
| simple defence group dared no improvement | 41 |
| spirit won't change abandoned place | 35 |
| sin of one's maturity | 21 |
| service for a light meal fixed | 30 |
| see 2 down | 10 |
| such badges are kingly, given first-class backing | 49 |
| Salesman tucks in - second helpings? | 36 |
| Sin about to turn up in twelfth month, turning up in groups | 59 |
| Suggest one will be dressed in mail | 35 |
| Studied type of jazz while touring in Spain | 43 |
| Swindler against leaving extremely crowded place | 48 |
| Show the den I contrived to trap one animal in | 46 |
| Somehow I get wholly caught up in farming | 41 |
| Said yes, you see | 17 |
| Show a delight in capturing | 27 |
| Said you obeyed the rules | 25 |
| standard monetary unit of guatemala | 35 |
| silvery-white element; symbol na | 32 |
| species of wild mountain goat of asia, europe and north africa | 62 |
| sign from old soldiers | 22 |
| suggest having beer with member | 31 |
| spots bodies of water, say | 26 |
| stoppage is a hit | 17 |
| section within department | 25 |
| subdivision showpiece | 21 |
| showman's call to you to be tight over supper menu | 50 |
| speak text aloud, going wrong on a detour | 41 |
| stray | 5 |
| smelling organ | 14 |
| seaport in liguria | 18 |
| spherical object | 16 |
| sir --- mcdonald, newscaster | 28 |
| stretch of land | 15 |
| strike an ........, expression meaning 'to assume a position indicating an emotion not really felt' | 99 |
| song by the four seasons released in 1975 | 41 |
| singer-songwriter who wrote manfred mann's hit song mighty quinn | 64 |
| such cables wind around food served in gastropubs? | 50 |
| small annoyance in case of bore getting primitive weapon | 56 |
| sloped-roof structures beside walls | 35 |
| sixpence ... the richer, kiss me band | 37 |
| slush | 5 |
| spenny, in dialect | 18 |
| slender; great | 14 |
| snake in the jungle book | 24 |
| Suffix with exist or differ | 27 |
| Sweat source | 12 |
| Sorority "T" | 12 |
| Special glows | 13 |
| Sci-fi writer Frederik | 22 |
| She-horse | 9 |
| Spot's foot | 11 |
| Sulu on "Star Trek" | 19 |
| Sampras et al. | 14 |
| Something amazing | 17 |
| Skeptic's challenge | 19 |
| Sodium hydroxide, symbolically | 30 |
| Scads | 5 |
| Salinger girl | 13 |
| Summer month in Argentina | 25 |
| Semi-soft cheese | 16 |
| Slothful | 8 |
| Submit tax forms electronically | 31 |
| Something to remember | 21 |
| Shake awake | 11 |
| safekeeping adopted by artist or agent | 38 |
| standard note found in a large thing supplying shade | 52 |
| senator is upset facing first of such claims | 44 |
| salutation in greek assembly after missing start | 48 |
| sci-fi film with the fictitious mineral unobtanium | 50 |
| some who drive to and from day care | 35 |
| stretch out on the road? | 24 |
| seized auto, for short | 22 |
| surfing sub-windows | 19 |
| space that may have exposed rafters | 35 |
| stores selling storemolla dressers | 34 |
| shows an effect of strenuous exercise | 37 |
| story of echo and narcissus, e.g. | 33 |
| situation after a triple | 24 |
| sprinkles | 9 |
| some reproductive cells | 23 |
| stimpy's buddy on tv | 20 |
| subject of the podcast "inside conan" | 37 |
| source of "sprockets" sketches in the 1990s | 43 |