| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SEALSKIN | |
| Animal fur stops blood (8) | SEALS + KIN | |
| 5 | CORPUS | |
| Cold or festering body (6) | C + OR + PUS | |
| 9 | ASTERISK | |
| Star reviewed a set with uncertainty? (8) | Anagram of A SET + RISK | |
| 10 | UNDONE | |
| Outstanding fund not started by an individual (6) | (f)UND + ONE | |
| 12 | OMANI | |
| Ring fellow linked to one Arab (5) | O + MAN + I | |
| 13 | ROADBLOCK | |
| Board modified to secure device that holds up vehicles (9) | Anagram of BOARD + LOCK | |
| 14 | GENERAL STORE | |
| Numbers rushed trading post? (7,5) | GENERALS + TORE | |
| 17 | SCARLET FEVER | |
| Disease’s lasting effect felt rotten always (7,5) | SCAR + anagram of FELT + EVER | |
| 22 | SPLENDOUR | |
| Place to stop in unpleasant ceremony (9) | (PL + END) inside SOUR | |
| 23 | IMAGE | |
| Corporate identity that is plugged by local publication (5) | MAG inside IE | |
| 24 | EMAILS | |
| Art deleted from materials used incorrectly in communication (6) | Anagram of MATERIALS minus ART | |
| 25 | BUSTLING | |
| Seal covering ordered list is active (8) | BUNG outside anagram of LIST | |
| 26 | TAKING | |
| Delightful time meeting a powerful man (6) | T + A + KING | |
| 27 | ADHERENT | |
| Tenacious head sorted out cost of living? (8) | Anagram of HEAD + RENT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | STAY ON | |
| Support number tipped to continue (4,2) | STAY + (NO reversed) | |
| 2 | ASTRAY | |
| Right blocked by a guy is off the mark (6) | R inside (A + STAY) | |
| 3 | SERVICE | |
| Organised worship and half of sermon based on depravity (7) | (SER)mon + VICE | |
| 4 | INSURRECTION | |
| Trendy recruits moved on civil disorder (12) | IN + anagram of RECRUITS + ON | |
| 6 | OMNIBUS | |
| Replacement, in quick time, piled up a collection of books (7) | (SUB + IN + MO) reversed | |
| 7 | PROTOCOL | |
| Troop misread Colonel’s code of behaviour (8) | Anagram of TROOP + COL | |
| 8 | SPECKLED | |
| Spotted hole made by bird in sled (8) | PECK inside SLED | |
| 11 | PARADE GROUND | |
| Knock up notice, for example, on every side of marching square (6,6) | RAP reversed + AD + EG + ROUND | |
| 15 | AS I SEE IT | |
| A family member, heading to exhibition match, turned round IMO (2,1,3,2) | A + SIS + (E)xhibition + TIE reversed | |
| 16 | FALL BACK | |
| Fine NZ rugby player, left out at last, is to retire (4,4) | F + ALL B(l)ACK | |
| 18 | LANOLIN | |
| Animal oil worked on all at home (7) | Anagram of ON ALL + IN | |
| 19 | EPISTLE | |
| Letter “R” missing from anagram of reptiles (7) | Anagram of REPTILES minus R | |
| 20 | MALICE | |
| Aluminium found in lab animals with bad blood (6) | AL inside MICE | |
| 21 | WEIGHT | |
| Power shown by WA’s first rowing team (6) | (W)a + EIGHT |
