| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | LIVER SPOT | |
| Skin blemish that’s usually brown or silver, disfigured large belly (5,4) | Anagram of SILVER + POT | |
| 6 | KAVA | |
| Some drink, a Vanuatuan beverage (4) | drinK A VAnuatuan | |
| 10 | GUEST | |
| Visitor took a shot in the dark reportedly (5) | Sounds like GUESSED | |
| 11 | TRAGEDIAN | |
| Actor partied hard with one sporting buff (9) | (RAGED + I) inside TAN | |
| 12 | TONALITY | |
| Plaything, inscribed with a translation of Latin, is key (8) | Anagram of LATIN inside TOY | |
| 13 | VACANT | |
| Empty vessel stored in another (6) | CAN inside VAT | |
| 15 | MEDICINE CHEST | |
| Senior journalist, in view of nice chemist, maligned drug store (8,5) | ED inside anagram of NICE CHEMIST | |
| 18 | PRIME MINISTER | |
| Leader’s formal dress worn in compound (5,8) | PRIM + (MINI inside ESTER) | |
| 22 | RUTILE | |
| Form containing titanium? (6) | RULE outside TI | |
| 23 | REPRISAL | |
| Public relations is limited by actual retaliation (8) | (PR + IS) inside REAL | |
| 26 | TUNING OUT | |
| Fanatic, regressing during disease, is losing interest (6,3) | NUT returned + IN + GOUT | |
| 27 | SIDLE | |
| Creep is left in team (5) | L inside SIDE | |
| 28 | AMEN | |
| Your Grace’s ending change? Not entirely (4) | (AMEN)d | |
| 29 | NO CONTEST | |
| Plea by prisoner put back on trial (2,7) | CON reversed + ON + TEST | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | LIGHTS | |
| Flimsy pole catches fire (6) | LIGHT + S | |
| 2 | VIETNAM | |
| Country’s volcano involved in spirited activity (7) | ETNA inside VIM | |
| 3 | RATEL | |
| Measure tail of normal honey badger (5) | RATE + norma(L) | |
| 4 | POTATO CHIP | |
| Chunk of Sebago, say – plant a bed up with it (6,4) | POT + A + (COT reversed) + HIP | |
| 5 | TEAK | |
| Timber cut down one side (4) | (s)TEAK | |
| 7 | AGITATE | |
| Shake a barrier holding it (7) | IT inside (A + GATE) | |
| 8 | ANNOTATE | |
| Comment on article not fully digested (8) | AN + NOT + ATE | |
| 9 | FERAL CAT | |
| Wild animal left a car damaged (5,3) | Anagram of LEFT A CAR | |
| 14 | ANTISEPTIC | |
| Uninspiring colonist is first to tower in heroic story (10) | ANT + IS + [(T)ower inside EPIC] | |
| 16 | DWELLING | |
| Section of uncovered well in grand residence (8) | uncovereD WELL IN Grand | |
| 17 | OPERETTA | |
| Musical drama’s toe-tapper not usually played without piano accompaniment (8) | Anagram of TOE-TAPPER minus P | |
| 19 | INTENSE | |
| Powerful tennis played with energy (7) | Anagram of TENNIS + E | |
| 20 | RESIDUE | |
| Rise adversely impacted outstanding balance (7) | Anagram of RISE + DUE | |
| 21 | CLIENT | |
| Customer left with one in small Australian capital (6) | (L + I) inside CENT | |
| 24 | RESIN | |
| Fall over pine product? (5) | Double Definition | |
| 25 | DOWN | |
| Blue feathers (4) | Double Definition |
