| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | WESTERNS | |
| Movies strangely weren’t screening Saturday and Sunday (8) | Anagram of WERENT outside S + S | |
| 5 | CASH UP | |
| Remains in competition to work out money taken (4,2) | ASH inside CUP | |
| 10 | GOVERNMENT ISSUE | |
| Displaced men get souvenirs provided by the authorities (10,5) | Anagram of MEN GET SOUVENIRS | |
| 11 | RUN THE SHOW | |
| Small person – he has manner to take charge (3,3,4) | RUNT + HES + HOW | |
| 12 | MESS | |
| Superstar football player losing out on final spot (4) | MESSI minus I | |
| 14 | FELONS | |
| Guys carrying on for low criminals (6) | FEL(ON for LOW)S | |
| 15 | MOORHEN | |
| Bird, a tailless bird, detected in range of satellite (7) | RHE(a) inside MOON | |
| 18 | PENDENT | |
| Writer, to make a small impression, is leaning over (7) | PEN + DENT | |
| 20 | TREATY | |
| Formal agreement to address hunger secured by judge (6) | EAT inside TRY | |
| 21 | NAME | |
| Call retired fellow before heading to England (4) | MAN reversed + (E)ngland | |
| 23 | SPECIALIST | |
| Moulded plastic is probed by energy expert (10) | Anagram of PLASTIC IS outside E | |
| 26 | TANTANOOLA TIGER | |
| Fabulous cat (brown lion) ate goat mutilated close to river (10,5) | TAN + anagram of LION ATE GOAT + R | |
| 27 | RESCUE | |
| Save time leaving rest with pool stick (6) | REST minus T + CUE | |
| 28 | DREDGERS | |
| They are employed to dig out drive with gardening tools (8) | DR + EDGERS | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | WAGER | |
| Put money on period of time needed in setting of world record (5) | AGE inside WR | |
| 2 | SEVENTEEN | |
| A number less than 20 may be visited about incident (9) | SEEN outside EVENT | |
| 3 | EARTHMOVER | |
| The army mostly worked with accomplished digger, say (10) | Anagram of (THE ARM)y + OVER | |
| 4 | NEMESIS | |
| Great rival is after recalled seed (7) | IS after (SEMEN reversed) | |
| 6 | AVID | |
| Passionate biblical king beheaded (4) | (d)AVID | |
| 7 | HASTE | |
| Expedition features team reduced by half (5) | HAS + TE(am) | |
| 8 | PHEASANT | |
| Game bird scattered heaps created by insect (8) | Anagram of HEAPS + ANT | |
| 9 | INFORM | |
| Pass on knowledge to residents of cabin for money? (6) | cabIN FOR Money | |
| 13 | FORECASTED | |
| Expected call from errant golfer distracted cadets (10) | FORE + anagram of CADETS | |
| 16 | HIT SINGLE | |
| Sex appeal described in version of English popular song (3,6) | IT inside anagram of ENGLISH | |
| 17 | SPINSTER | |
| Single lady turns heads of teenagers, executives and retirees (8) | SPINS + (T)eenagers + (E)xecutives + (R)etirees | |
| 19 | TIPTOP | |
| Excellent suggestion about progressive instruction given by writer (6) | TIP outside PTO | |
| 20 | TICKLER | |
| Puzzle perfectionist lacking in originality? (7) | (s)TICKLER | |
| 22 | MINUS | |
| Weakness in America after opening of markets (5) | (IN + US) after (M)arkets | |
| 24 | TARTS | |
| Tangy topping of special flans (5) | TART + (S)pecial | |
| 25 | OAHU | |
| Part of Borneo, a huge island in the Pacific (4) | borneO A HUge |
