Clues
Across
- 1, 4A Standing in awe of the famous actor’s trailer (10)
- 4 See 1A.
- 6 Expert wearing an item of PPE (5)
- 7 Beater is substituted for the Spanish seafood (5)
Down
- 1 Growth’s on the rise, sucker! (5)
- 2 “Take drugs” - thus begins epitaph (4)
- 3 It’s essential to mask unknown source of foul odour (5)
- 5 Edgy, controversial covering for balls showing restraint (4)
Setter’s notes
I hope you don’t trip over too many stumbling blocks here. It seems to be my obsession at the moment to fit long answers into short grids — I hope you’ll forgive this rather wayward tendency.
Across
- 1 & 4 The famous actor’s trailer = STAR’S TRUCK — STARSTRUCK.
- 6 “Expert” = PRO, wearing AN — APRON.
- 7 “Beater” = WHISK, with IS substituted by “the Spanish” = EL — WHELK.
Down
- 1 “Growths” = WARTS, on the rise (reversed) — STRAW, a sucker.
- 2 “Thus begins epitaph”: T + RIP — TRIP, “take drugs”.
- 3 Hidden (“to mask”) in “maSK UNKnown” — SKUNK.
- 5 “Balls” = OO, covered by the edges of “ControversiaL” = CL — COOL, “showing restraint”.