| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | REASSIGN | |
| Give a new job to fool in command (8) | ASS inside REIGN | |
| 5 | CURSOR | |
| Dog kind – tailless pointer? (6) | CUR + SOR(t) | |
| 10 | COCHLEAR IMPLANT | |
| One representative in a concert hall arranged help with audition (8,7) | (I + MP) inside anagram of A CONCERT HALL | |
| 11 | RESURGENT | |
| Reserve, pressing, is coming back strongly (9) | RES + URGENT | |
| 12 | PACER | |
| Racehorse review in need of backing (5) | RECAP reversed | |
| 13 | FEED | |
| Charge old copper for a plentiful meal (4) | FEE + D | |
| 18 | PRANCED | |
| Image department organised dance and showed off (7) | PR + anagram of DANCE | |
| 20 | FIRE | |
| Get rid of tree close to fence (4) | FIR + fenc(E) | |
| 23 | RACER | |
| Car changing gear regularly? (5) | Anagram of CAR + g(E)a(R) | |
| 24 | SHIPSHAPE | |
| Orderly has pipes repaired outside hospital (9) | Anagram of HAS PIPES outside H | |
| 26 | DISILLUSIONMENT | |
| Unionists milled around showing extreme disappointment (15) | Anagram of UNIONISTS MILLED | |
| 27 | DO-SI-DO | |
| Dance move is played back in party twice (2-2-2) | IS reversed inside (DO + DO) | |
| 28 | SHEPHERD | |
| Pastor quietly sat with her in storage unit (8) | (P + HER) inside SHED | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | RECORD | |
| Write down customer’s starter in wrong order (6) | (C)ustomer inside anagram of ORDER | |
| 2 | ACCUSE | |
| Blame copper admitted in unusual case (6) | CU inside anagram of CASE | |
| 3 & 15-across | SOLAR ECLIPSE | |
| Special roles developed for heavenly event (5,7) | Anagram of SPECIAL ROLES | |
| 4 | GO-AHEAD | |
| Drive around a male with green light (2-5) | GOAD outside (A + HE) | |
| 6 | UNPOPULAR | |
| Plutonium, crucial to the internal workings of our plan, is out of favour (9) | PU inside anagram of OUR PLAN | |
| 7 | SEASCAPE | |
| Like eclipse painted in divine artwork (8) | (AS + CAP) inside SEE | |
| 8 | RETIREES | |
| Wise man upset about weary people who no longer work (8) | SEER reversed outside TIRE | |
| 9 | VIRTUE | |
| One in five disguised true sexual purity (6) | I inside (V + anagram of TRUE) | |
| 14 | ENCIRCLED | |
| Cleric, involved in death, is surrounded (9) | Anagram of CLERIC inside END | |
| 16 | UPGRADED | |
| Promoted guard tossed around paper’s first edition (8) | Anagram of GUARD outside (P)aper + ED | |
| 17 | FASCISTS | |
| Councillor primarily is involved in quick end of callous right-wingers (8) | [(C)ouncillor + IS] inside FAST + callou(S) | |
| 19 | DISCUS | |
| Talk about not completing an Olympic event (6) | DISCUS(s) | |
| 20 | FAIRISH | |
| Quite light mixture of gases inhaled by swimmer (7) | AIR inside FISH | |
| 21 | RACEME | |
| Group of people, men, pruned a flower arrangement (6) | RACE + ME(n) | |
| 22 | PENTAD | |
| Group of five and ten mucked around inside hippie’s hangout (6) | Anagram of TEN inside PAD | |
| 25 | SUN-UP | |
| Joke with American rising early in the morning (3-2) | (PUN + US) reversed |
