Clues Starting With h Hide from view (3,3) House in Spain (4) Hint: it's a Chinese dynasty (4) How one checked authenticity of old money, then some new (7) Harry is safe — son's in hiding (6) High-flying electronic equipment icon with visa difficulty (8) Hell with back to front relative darkness (5) Harmony, accord (5) Hold sacred (8) Hit boy below the belt (4) Highly obvious to vocalise about pick of the bunch (9) How's your father upholding higher education for all? (6) Have good intentions (4,4) Hand 2 27 (5) Head and governors round table, of course (6,5) Harry Kane to describe cup holder’s state (8) How Hermione had a child, a poet (5) Hypothesis (6) Helicopter blade (5) Hand in dictionary that is left out (7) How to cook new hatchlings from the bottom of the sea? (4-3) Handbill that can be used to keep the rain out (8) Hand out inspector's words of approval (10) Honour East German city backing end of coal energy (7) Hill-climbing gear? (3) He's a Time Lord (6,3) He went from Italy to America by scooter to join fashion house, squandering silver (8) Hapless Chase met agents to make cuts (8) How to kill time with your thumbs? (7) Hold sway (5) How shoe may be repaired, outside very cracked (6) Help with technique identifying face on boy (7) Harden metal by heating (6) Hostile part of song (6) Hastened to adopt disguise for auditors (4) Heard 'Clear off!' in a broad brogue, say (4) Husband has love competition, a poet (6) Happened by chance to ring, interrupted by heavy metal (6) Hollow area poor driver ends up in — he leaves it (6) Height of sculpture is about right (7) Hermits occasionally getting into sex that's explosive (6) However casually learner is given direction, styles ensue (9) Harshness (8) Have impact on (7) Hot soup dished out by the French in a cold location (5,4) Healthcare worker (5) Hooray! (7) Hitherto (4,3) Heaviest known metal, Os (6) Home destroyer — bawling clerk (anag) (8,4) Heap of wood and other combustible material (4) Honour a team's first principle (5) Half-heartedly encourage hard nut, struggling during extremely tedious valuable pursuits? (8,5) Houses preferred by sailors (7) Halloween practice (5,2,5) Historical England (6) Happening every 24 hours (5) Herb of the mint family (5) He's about to reform Slade without leader (8) Hard Viking decapitated rider (8) Hogwash (6) How to get tips for cooking equipment (8) Hut, shanty (5) Hobbles along in total disorder (8) Hackneyed (5) Housey-housey (5) Have a strong desire (for something) (4) Hot stuff emerging from company meeting in Massachusetts (5) Helping with alacrity, agree to settle best rent (5,2,6) Hard close-grained tree with a syrupy sap (5) Hotlines got crossed for student of culture (11) Has an evening meal, including potatoes, and crashes (5-3) Hindus take off clothing and start to swim here? (5) Hurry, having let out large vehicle in front (6) Hatches plan to skip church expedition (5) Hamper for when royalty's aboard punt (6) How crow and dove move perhaps or fly sky high? (3,6) Hide small close relations (4) Huge fan carrying a horsey paper around (10) Habitual drinker (informal) (7) Hill where Jesus was crucified (8) Hairdresser (8) Heraldic bearings (4,2,4) Housing converted from stables (4) Hateful (9) Had coin in change for part of south-east Asia (9) Highly-regarded (7) High steep bank caused by river erosion (5) Hurry to climb into bed that's cleaned (7) Having exchanged parts, withdraw stage curtain (8) Hubbub (6) How annoying! (4) He may suit you (6) Highlighted, focussed (7) Helium in water changing climate (7) Harmonise (3,2) Ham it up (7) Hurry to join mums in the club (6) High point of St Peter's Basilica (4) Humiliation (7) Historian understood country (7) Hard work — work hard (4) Horseless highwayman of old (7) Her Majesty not disguising herself in rubber (6) Has an inkling (8) Head for crowded raucous square where ecstasy's to be had? (5,4) Herb has heard bird (5) Horny male (4) Hood; heavy (8) Holy (6) Heavy rain initially delayed every London Underground going east (6) Husband contributing to essential part of housework? (5) Hairpiece to cover baldness (6) High earners taking in southern mountain air quality (8) Highly prized edible fungus (7) Hog's back; saddle (5) Hanging spear of frozen water (6) Husband enters to wreck party (6) Hint to politicians in the know (5,2) Hawk pursues a large female retreating as fast as possible (4,3) Heading off, slightly intoxicated after quiet drink (6) Hot drink (5) Hinged or detachable flat section used to extend a dining table (4) Helplessly drunk (6) Hooked (8) Himalayan country (5) Happy taking flight in one's mind? (8) Has turned over pages, one chapter relating to poetess (7) How 7, 11 or 26 across might have announced his resignation? (4,2,3) Heartless old Tory interrupting man who repairs sculpture (3,7) Herb — girl's name (8) Helen and Ruth unclothed by champion of alternative medicine (9) Handing over a vehicle (10) H. Kane's Spurs teammate gives up his soul to be an artist (4) Huge (informal) (9) Horse-drawn carriage with the driver sitting above and behind the passengers (6,3) Holy ring (4) Harvest disease leads to making one unconscious (6,3) Heroine, tragic victim of hubris? Old enough to see through this (6) Heaps (6) Hard labour (4) Horny as hell, dropping spades — it maybe could lead to this (4,2,3,3) Helping one ingenue to conceal affair (2,3,2) Horrid type of slip packed by old duchess on vacation? (6) Humorists uncovered cracks through which you might see the world? (7) Holm, the actress; Marie, the mysterious vessel (7) Horrified as a good speed is cut (6) Heartless misjudgment by European politician and leader (7) Happening at opportune moment (4-5) Hang about, wasting time (6) Horse died — Sue admits boundless regret (6,4) How old prisoner is transported, when one can agree to act (3,2,7) Hitchcock film sure to follow interval (10) Hold spellbound (7) How cows give birth (5) High-quality cloth (5) Hippy gatherings — not very English, showing genital area! (5) Hit hard (informal) (5) Huge (4) Having no character drinking tea loudly, like seven pairs of solutions here (10) How the plantain lily is also known (5) Hermit (who lived in a cave?) (10) He could kill staff supporting strike (6) Host is shot when it gets a bit cooler (5) Her singing is the end (3,4) Hawks wine round hospital showing war damage (5,5) His happy orgy disrupted study of 5 down (12) Hurdle (8) Hokusai's fifth boat illustration (6) Heroic (7) Has overall control; is paramount (5,3,5) Has arrived; becomes noticed (2,3,3) High-jumping technique — ploy rubs off (anag) (7,4) Have breakfast, as all the king's horses and men did (2,2,4,2,2,3) Hot seat may shatter the unadventurous (4-2-4) Hours before present (4) His aim's to produce fish (7) Hidden shooter (6) Habitual drinkers (6) High point after New Year's Day for one cleaning up (7) Heavy volume, or medium, in parts of Busoni switched (7) Having abnormally high blood glucose levels (8) Hut accommodating officer before being given asylum (9) Heaviest fencing sword (4) Holidaymaker affected to a greater extent? (6) He scored 1,000 down under and rivalled their openers (6) Hooter (3) He's the favourite (4-4,3) Hold tightly (4) Household (8) He made great scores in game with cracking drive (10) Highlight from fight, including its location (5,3) High-ranking (3-5) Hurt; deeply distressed (3-2) How far one's driven (7) Harsh laugh (6) Heavenly body that rises with the sun? (7) Hot milky drink (5) Holding note, regular shot to pieces staring down this? (3,6) Hunk with money is a big character (5,7) Hand opening tin for produce (5) Herculean chore involves stop at sea (6) Headgear (informal) (6) Having variations in tune quality (7) Heavenly shade (3,4) Hornby's construction system missing no place in Saudi Arabia (5) Head of urology given endlessly stretchy tool (7) Head of sport leaving great magazine (5) Headgear once common in the City (6,3) Humdinger (informal) (4) Hold on to (6) Hurry! (informal) (4-4) High (7) Height of failure? Lie! (8) Have confidence over investigator (female) — never good to show disloyalty (8) Head municipal officer of a city (5) Hairstyles worn by women in the 1920s (4,5) Having lived, died with mark of beating (5) How one might make the bar, panting (3,2,6) Hustler's confession displayed on computer (4) Hidden talent's wasted (6) Hot wind blowing north across the Mediterranean (7) Hitch-hiking requirements? (5) High point reached, some problem catching up (4) He investigates passing round pickle sandwiches (7) Husband has problems stifling camp inclinations (9) Having forty winks (8) Hike; arduous journey (4) Humorous theatrical interjection of old (4,3,5) Hearing; court (8) How to be green on bike (7) Helps domestic staff without money (4) Heavy dull sound (4) Horse of a heavy powerful breed (10) He, as a qualified judge, about to discharge European detained (7) His home game covered by press (10) He was a so-called king (5) He was a high-flyer who crashed (6) High-spirited escapade (5) Harmonious relationship (7) Host (4) Huge (4) Hide away; store (5) Hand tool for boring holes (5) Highest possible score with one dart (5) Herb mixture contains a treatment for addiction (5) Honour to receive Oscar for musical instrument (4) Handsome youth (6) Heart of Darkness author (6) Hosiery (9) Hardy's other half (6) Hot crew filling pipe (8) Hit violently (3,4) Handle subject of diplomatic negotiations but not completely (5) Head off evidence of bovine activity in most of the canal trail (7) Hard material from elephants, walruses and similar animals (5) Heavy petroleum (6) Having almost left, Charlie enters to stir things up (6) How to start old aeroplane: rotate propeller (3) Heraldic family symbols (4) Herb in duck and orange concoction (7) Happy girl with 26 13 across, person I'm addressing second (6) Half of device for storing data in binder (4) Heaving sound, usually made with shoulders moving (4) Hotel worker is nice to pert model (12) Hell's cold: it's round and flat (4) Hardness of some northerners who won’t be ground down? (9,4) Highly contentious situation (7,4) Highway robbery (10) Highly suspicious airman lacking papers (8) Honour received for achievement (5) Hedgehog thus keeps running (5) Hoofer (6) High mountain (3) Hideous (4) Hard mineral in estuary (6) Having escaped, move smoothly north (5) Hot sauce (7) Hawaiian greeting (5) How some may pick up old picture in seaside resort (7) Having no time at all for money, online pest producing bumf (3,4) High-calorie dip is perhaps seasonal (10) Hypothetical argument about skills with worker (5,3) Humid (6) Highly-prized item (4,4) Her poem on change may be arousing for others (9) He takes on themes known to experienced types? (3,5) Hunting expedition (6) He's wants to wreck things (8) Heavy (4) House arrest restricts woman's assembly (9) Hedge a market, struggling to succeed (4,3,5) Having drunk water, ask for bloody food (3,5) Hush as Queen let 'one's special pet' inside (5,6) Hurly-burly (3,3,6) How letter writers often start to sign off (5) Hint (8) Hold garment up, one of 24 dresses (7) Human body (7) Hot-dog sausage (11) Hawk, bellicose person (9) Home that's short on space? (6,5) Horrid ugly things not good for recycling (9) Heavy food? Eccentric gets to eat an excessive amount (6) Hypnotic state affected Cretan (6) Highest quality (4) Head appearing stoned in India, back in the day? (5,2,3,5) Heart-throb: ambiguous, captivating lead in film (5) Having a lead, stops 1,000 dogs, say, getting nits (7) Humiliating failure (6) Happy, peaceful time (5) Heard a foreign nobleman's stories (8) Have another check-up, using extra time in relaxation (6) How to maintain an accurate tally of fortified towers? (4,5) Holiday afloat — Kidman's ex (6) His missus being unfaithful makes him horny (7) Hostelry (3) High red card (3,2,8) Home made of logs? (5) Hard men punching to weaken part of the torso (6) High point (4) Heavy pudding — no good (4) High quiet stream (6) Happy at home about nothing? There's argument (10) Hairy sport supporting international organisation (8) Hooded snake (5) Henry VIII's favourite warship, resurrected in 1982 (4,4) Homer, say, entertaining English classicist (5) Heroic feat (7) Heavenly light (4) Happening now (7) Hold gently and protectively (6) Hard, I say repeatedly, to secure voting for the rabble (3,6) Hutted village, one crossed over by bird going backwards (5) How to move a stop (4) Hang cage over top of door (4) Heavy petroleum (6) Historic region of north-west Europe, scene of prolonged battles in WWI (8) Home improvements cover up little — and not in a good way (8) Huge admiration expressed for birds (7) Having fun in a boat going in to fish (7) Hot pepper (6) Havana, say (5) Honey-based alcoholic drink (4) Howl in grief (7) How should I know? (3,2,7) Head (informal) (6) Holidaying vehicle? (6,3) Hair arrangement (7) Headland (4) Hectic or excited, skip off (8) Healthy — well done! (4,3,3) Highest mountain in Japan (4) Happy cry (5) Heart attack may be actually about right (7) Harry's one drawback, capturing the heart of citizens (6) Half a tenner (5) Heard rumours about what auditor needs (7) Hear this instrument played — Aeolian harp possibly (7) Handel wrote one speech mostly to entertain troops (8) Historic fortress on the Thames (5,2,6) Hide round bike sheds, primarily to smoke (7) Highly concentrated (7) Heavy metal fan's performance? (11) Height and distance from the equator after a tweak (8) Home position, for example (8) Hard worker — malicious software (6) Highly skilled (12) Heated kitchen environment? (4) Horse with, say, a chestnut coat mixed with white (4) Heroin (slang) (5) How to make techie get conversation going (5,3,3) Hounds gone to the dogs — with bare paws? (6) Hot first of all in equatorial region, opposite then is cold (6) Holding swallow tail in fist, pluck bird (5,3) Help out when gold potty lost in bathroom? (4,3,8) Hypocritical talk (4) Handle roughly (4) Highly popular article everyone seethes about? (3,3,4) Having a pattern of dots (8) Hit — item of clothing (4) Husband roped in to sample traditionally female craft (4) Hunter with dreadful curse has to be kept inside (8) How to go from capitals of Spain, Russia, Qatar and Peru. (4) Hesitant, using gestural and verbal forms of communication (8) Heavy work, including some art, is laborious (8) High-pitched woodwind instrument (5) Hit game returns (4) Head of state's love a Shakespearean queen rejected (5) Heavenly round these parts and others (8) Hose this GT after it's overhauled (6) Harden cover son's left out (5) Honesty (7) Heart, centre (4) Hammer's symbolic partner (6) Hero worship? Puck does have a go, after taking note (8) Hard nut, so sure to get a beating (9) Hotel annex in which spectre finally materialised (8) Harry Andersen caught (8) Hanging (7) Husband facing wrath, one to go in wardrobe? (6) Hallucinogenic drug making one play around in waste water (6) Hard feelings (7) Hotel sign including everything to indicate quality (8) How the Irish speak of knave crowned by Britain? (6) Hypothesis that has no alternative for these people (4) Historical era (5) How a tailor might make the grade? (7,2) Having determination to show authorship rests between pirate and criminal (2,4,2,2,5) Hitch and tie other side (8) Handy instruction book? (6) Have an increased effect (3,2) Honest, not rotten sinner in the appropriate place? (2,3,5) Head (informal) (6) Historic county on the west coast of Scotland (6) House Democrat in heavy defeat setback (5) Heartlessly allow bird to suffer — animal! (4,4) Have a go and weigh it! Rival uncertain (4,2,1,5) Had nothing to do with key getting cut (8) Heraldic beast with very strange name (6) Humble Catholic hasn't lost any fingers (7) Hairstyle with tight curls (4) Heading across France occasionally to find grave (7) Harry a competitor in the Crucible (6) Handsome young Greek god of beauty and fertility (6) Having forsworn alcohol (8) Horror-struck (6) Highly excited (4) History of disc — part of it first (5,6) Heat-retaining articles worn by soldier left behind (7) HRT treatment remains open to debate (6,3) Having daydreams (7) Humorous image, video or short text that spreads rapidly by internet (4) High flyer is buying limousine, say, for all (6) Her best lead is lost then found again (2-11) Honorary title for a professor retired from active service (8) Head of the hospital department, Margaret, is a help in securing temporary accommodation (4,3) Holding back name for male leads to cursing (7) Hot air added to temperature above station (10) Horse or camel, for example (9) Heart-improving physical exercises (8) Heard expressions of relief from circuit breaker (4) Happy? Good boy! (4) Having sustained success, Ronaldo left for Germany, surprisingly (2,1,4) Hard setter on the Guardian ultimately supporting application (11) Having taken wine in church, rector's bursting (7) Hair-plucking tool (8) Hang freely (6) How shocking is that? (1,3,3) Heavenly situation (5) Heroic outlaw (with a hood) (5) Hitchcock's opening shot was with hesitation in Rope (6) Hard grey metal, atomic no 4 (9) Having one spouse (8) Have nothing to do with row about pig (6) Hurry from hotel in guise of X (6) Harangue one entering business (6) Humorous writing about following it and it returning (6) Hard grey-white metal, Zr, used in nuclear reactors (9) Hang back to talk (3) Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one (3) Hurry! (3,1,4,2) Hollywood — won't listen (anag) (10) Hellenic (anag) — heavy material made into bedspreads and rugs (8) Heraldic bearings (4,2,4) Have the opposite effect to that intended (8) Hungry, peckish (8) Happen to find compiler black demure clothes (4,2) Honours (5) Hard-working and conscientious (8) Hint for one's confidant (8) Hate to pass on tackling review of heartless murders (7) Henry Williamson's Tarka was one (5) Hidden away (7) Having toilet break, quietly kept in touch (2,3,4) Hate speech perhaps gets Mike arrested by police with violence (7) Hi there, Richard: Hamlet knew him (6) Hiding in bush, a very young lad (6)