| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CRASH COURSE | |
| Utter abuse about adventurous company’s intensive programme of instruction (5,6) | CURSE outside (RASH + CO) | |
| 7 | ROT | |
| Tripe and bread not finished (3) | ROT(i) | |
| 9 | SOLID | |
| Upstanding one bound by auctioneer’s call (5) | I inside SOLD | |
| 10 | TUMBLE-DRY | |
| Diseased myrtle bud is free of moisture (6-3) | Anagram of MYRTLE BUD | |
| 11 | MARE’S TAIL | |
| A break formed in protective covering and cloud (5,4) | (A + REST) inside MAIL | |
| 12 | SHOWN | |
| The way something is done in tin is demonstrated (5) | HOW inside SN | |
| 13 | RAN AMOK | |
| Class running around a short time, went wild (3,4) | RANK outside (A + MO) | |
| 15 | DRIP | |
| Drain’s primary rupture is a plumber’s problem (4) | (D)rain + RIP | |
| 18 | EROS | |
| God of love is tender in a different way (4) | SORE reversed | |
| 20 | PIGMENT | |
| Paint grand people during depression (7) | (G + MEN) inside PIT | |
| 23 | AROMA | |
| A tomato’s smell (5) | A + ROMA | |
| 24 | AIRSTREAM | |
| Current racer’s first in new Maserati (9) | (R)acer inside anagram of MASERATI | |
| 26 | BAR USEFUL | |
| Hotel worker’s fun ended early volatile Belarus (3,6) | FU(n) inside anagram of BELARUS | |
| 27 | TRACE | |
| Mark left with time to fly (5) | T + RACE | |
| 28 | EYE | |
| Part of a needle, yes? (3) | needlE YEs | |
| 29 | NERVE CENTRE | |
| HQ’s section of “bible” held in extraordinary reverence (5,6) | NT inside anagram of REVERENCE | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CASHMERE | |
| Crocheter primarily has knitted with pure and simple wool (8) | (C)rocheter + anagram of HAS + MERE | |
| 2 | ALLURING | |
| Desirable university checked by everyone with phone (8) | U inside (ALL + RING) | |
| 3 | HADES | |
| He has written about commercial hell (5) | HES outside AD | |
| 4 | OUTBACK | |
| Taxi trade union set up in very good part of Australia that’s remote (7) | (CAB + TU) reversed inside OK | |
| 5 | RAMBLED | |
| Sheep ran and wandered (7) | RAM + BLED | |
| 6 | ENLISTING | |
| Line loosely wound for securing support (9) | Anagram of LINE + STING | |
| 7 | RED-HOT | |
| Very excited horde scrambled back to fort (3-3) | Anagram of HORDE + for(T) | |
| 8 | TRYING | |
| Difficult dignitary worked without aid (6) | Anagram of DIGNITARY minus AID | |
| 14 | MORTAL SIN | |
| A very bad offence – it’s normal in a perverted way (6,3) | Anagram of ITS NORMAL | |
| 16 | RELEVANT | |
| Proper division seizing contaminated veal (8) | RENT outside anagram of VEAL | |
| 17 | STAMPEDE | |
| Charge impressed England’s opener (8) | STAMPED + (E)ngland | |
| 19 | STAFFER | |
| Unlimited offer accepted by leading employee? (7) | o)FFE(r inside STAR | |
| 20 | PAROLEE | |
| Prisoner conditionally released from a job in gym (7) | (A + ROLE) inside PE | |
| 21 | GARBLE | |
| Type of roof accommodating right slant (6) | GABLE outside R | |
| 22 | COWRIE | |
| Marine creature that is following female whale, right? (6) | (IE after COW) + R | |
| 25 | TITHE | |
| One tenth initially included in the biblical offering (5) | [I + (T)enth] inside THE |
