| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BUSINESS | |
| Trade vehicles transporting in scaffolding primarily (8) | BUSES outside [IN + (S)caffolding] | |
| 5 | SPUR | |
| Impulse items included in cosmetics purchases (4) | cosmeticS PURchases | |
| 10 | TRAIT | |
| Narrow channel with no original feature (5) | (s)TRAIT | |
| 11 | FLAVOURED | |
| Seasoned side of lamb consumed by pet (9) | (L)amb inside FAVOURED | |
| 12 | ANCHORING | |
| Fixing one seal broken by chain (9) | (AN + ORING) outside CH | |
| 13 | LOADS | |
| Youths sucking in oxygen a great deal (5) | LADS outside O | |
| 14 | FINALE | |
| Members of staff in a legal conclusion (6) | stafF IN A LEgal | |
| 15 | DOCKING | |
| Medical man, a leader, is fixing a painter (7) | DOC + KING | |
| 18 | CONTACT | |
| Approach court about concerning law (7) | CT outside ON + ACT | |
| 20 | SMOOTH | |
| Hypothetical case held in silence is uneventful (6) | MOOT inside SH | |
| 22 | TEMPT | |
| Entice irregular worker back to employment (5) | TEMP + employmen(T) | |
| 24 | ROAD-SENSE | |
| Driving skill increased in control of new sedan (4-5) | ROSE outside anagram of SEDAN | |
| 25 | LASHED OUT | |
| Yobbo hanging outside a storage unit attacked strongly (6,3) | LOUT outside (A SHED) | |
| 26 | TWILL | |
| Material that’s finishing a legal document (5) | tha(T) + WILL | |
| 27 | DINE | |
| Eat serving of food in eatery (4) | fooD IN Eatery | |
| 28 | DRUMBEAT | |
| Characters from Bermuda experimented with time and rhythmic sound (8) | Anagram of BERMUDA + T | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BAT-PAD | |
| Bowled at Pakistan’s opener and cleared out close-in fielder? (3-3) | B + AT + (P)akistan + A(n)D | |
| 2 | STANCHION | |
| Support a snitch involved in operation (9) | Anagram of A SNITCH + ON | |
| 3 | NATIONAL ANTHEM | |
| An animal not worried about the country song (8,6) | Anagram of AN ANIMAL NOT outside THE | |
| 4 | SUFFICE | |
| Do stuff, ignoring time on ice (7) | STUFF minus T + ICE | |
| 6 | PARKA | |
| Leave a car with a weatherproof cover (5) | PARK + A | |
| 7 | REDESIGN | |
| Green is upset about record’s final update (8) | Anagram of GREEN IS outside recor(D) | |
| 8 | SAGGED | |
| Scrambled eggs with a starter of duck went down slowly (6) | Anagram of EGGS A + (D)uck | |
| 9 | COLLECTORS ITEM | |
| Electric tools fashioned minute piece worth keeping (10,4) | Anagram of ELECTRIC TOOLS + M | |
| 16 | INTENSIVE | |
| Popular event is not usually demanding (9) | IN + anagram of EVENT IS | |
| 17 | SCUTTLED | |
| Snow vehicle loaded with hewn tonnes travelled quickly (8) | SLED outside (CUT + T) | |
| 19 | TARBOY | |
| Plaything, carrying underwear, picked up hired hand in the shearing shed (6) | TOY outside (BRA reversed) | |
| 20 | SHATTER | |
| Panama producer, say, after small break (7) | HATTER after S | |
| 21 | MERLOT | |
| Wine retailer’s back inside shady motel (6) | retaile(R) inside anagram of MOTEL | |
| 23 | MASON | |
| Uncle from America turned on builder (5) | SAM reversed + ON |
