| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | GERMAN MEASLES | |
| Manager seems upset about onset of Lyme disease (6,7) | Anagram of MANAGER SEEMS outside (L)yme | |
| 9 | DISCERN | |
| Uncoordinated dancer is missing out on a spot (7) | Anagram of DANCER IS minus A | |
| 10 | TEAR OUT | |
| Forcefully remove Prince of Wales, say, facing defeat (4,3) | TEA + ROUT | |
| 11 | EARWIG | |
| A wire rigged close to gathering to eavesdrop (6) | Anagram of A WIRE + gatherin(G) | |
| 12 | BULLETIN | |
| Newsflash – it’s fired in! (8) | BULLET + IN | |
| 14 | SALMAGUNDI | |
| Amusing lad composed a medley (10) | Anagram of AMUSING LAD | |
| 16 | COXA | |
| Small crew member seen with a joint (4) | COX + A | |
| 19 | SECT | |
| School of opinion relocated cadets without notice (4) | Anagram of CADETS minus AD | |
| 20 | GIANT PANDA | |
| Head of genetics interbred taipan and a vulnerable species (5,5) | (G)enetics + anagram of TAIPAN AND | |
| 22 | PREFACED | |
| Introduced game official, inside, showed signs of impatience (8) | REF inside PACED | |
| 23 | MISSAL | |
| Fail to see a large book of prayers (6) | MISS + A + L | |
| 26 | APOSTLE | |
| Evangelist maligned lots in parody (7) | Anagram of LOST inside APE | |
| 27 | OMINOUS | |
| Boundless comic intellect is threatening? (7) | c)OMI(c + NOUS | |
| 28 | SUPPLEMENTARY | |
| Flexible people try catching a game ball (13) | SUPPLE MEN + (TRY outside A) | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | GODDESSES | |
| Beautiful women follow up on dresses right away (9) | DOG reversed + (DRESSES minus R) | |
| 2 | RISER | |
| Jack is last to stumble in middle of sparring (5) | [IS + stumbl(E)] inside spa(RR)ing | |
| 3 | AMERICAN | |
| Trump’s son, for example, in the form of a man? (8) | ERIC inside (A + MAN) | |
| 4 | MANY | |
| Property owned by nobleman yielded lots? (4) | nobleMAN Yielded | |
| 5 | ASTOUNDING | |
| A depth ascertained (including temperature) is impressive (10) | (A + SOUNDING) outside T | |
| 6 | LIABLE | |
| Subject, refused bail, left courthouse at the back? (6) | Anagram of BAIL + L + courthous(E) | |
| 7 | SHOUT DOWN | |
| “Silence! Silence! Get the better of gutless warden”? (5,4) | SH + OUTDO + W(arde)N | |
| 8 | STUN | |
| Shock manoeuvre that’s dangerous mostly (4) | (STUN)t | |
| 13 | LUTINE BELL | |
| Even parts of deal in bulletin confused Lloyd’s ringer (6,4) | d(E)a(L) inside anagram of BULLETIN | |
| 15 | LECHEROUS | |
| Raunchy clues compiled about leading man (9) | Anagram of CLUES outside HERO | |
| 17 | ANAPLASTY | |
| Pal disfigured in a horrible piece of cosmetic surgery (9) | Anagram of PAL inside (A + NASTY) | |
| 18 | OPTICIAN | |
| Surgery on twitching problem, one completed by an eye-correction specialist (8) | OP + TIC + I + AN | |
| 21 | WAIT UP | |
| Hang on, don’t go to bed just yet (4,2) | Double Definition | |
| 22 | PLAY | |
| Perform a song, opening with piano (4) | P + LAY | |
| 24 | STOMA | |
| A selection of instruments to make a surgical opening (5) | instrumentS TO MAke | |
| 25 | WORM | |
| Argue about entry point of major computer virus (4) | ROW reversed + (M)ajor |
