Missed My Bus

I very much liked 7A and 2D. Short words are hard to clue in interesting ways, so I appreciate seeing you find good ones!

**Hello again solvers**, and thanks for having a peek at another of my mini-cryptic shenanigans.  Hope I didn't strike too many bum notes.  Follow along at https://crosshare.org/tuber for notifications whenever I post a new puzzle, which is to say, about once or twice a week (rarely more and often less.)  Here comes the wash-up:

ÀCROSS.  1A. ||Reversal of "water level" = TIDE.||  4A. ||Reversal of "paddles" = BATS.|| 6A. ||Hidden in "dobermANNULtimately".|| 7A. ||
Containment of "medium" = M in "service without hope of return" = ACE.|| 8A. ||Reversal of "look" = PEEK.||

DOWN. 1D. ||Reversal of "stake" = ANTE.||  2D. ||Containment of "cake's first" = C in "Scandinavian" = DANE.|| 3D. ||anag. TEAL.|| 4D. ||Initial letters.|| 5D. ||"bad" = BUM + "parking" = P.||

I'm aware that this one's got a lot of reversals, for which sameness I can only apologise.

I really enjoyed this cryptic. I only had one problem with "stalemate".

Enjoyable little puzzle, with approachable cluing throughout, thank you.

My key regret for this puzzle is that I couldn't find a fair way to clue BUMP with a variant on the phrase "parking at rear".

Nice cryptic! For your explanation, did you mean that 8A was a double meaning instead of reversal?

Thanks!  8A's intended as a reversal ("over") of "look" = PEEK, but is there another meaning of "look" or "look over" that I've, er, overlooked?

That's the meaning I got, too. Keep as in "to observe or pay regard to", seemed to also match "look over" (as in "watch over".)

Extremely clean and approachable! Unique word choice with indicators ("tangled", "stake raised"), which went a long way in making every clue feel different.

Cryptic 5x5 #23 by tuber

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