| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BUSYBODIES | |
| Disruptive boy in coach stops troublemakers (10) | Anagram of BOY inside (BUS + DIES) | |
| 6 | SMSS | |
| Electronic communications yet to be deleted from reconfigured systems (4) | Anagram odf SYSTEMS minus YET | |
| 10 | MALADMINISTERED | |
| Master providing housing for lad with little education managed poorly (15) | MASTER outside (LAD + MINI) + ED | |
| 11 | PAVEMENT | |
| Walk quietly with people guarded by a returned soldier (8) | P + (MEN inside A VET) | |
| 12 | AGLOW | |
| Silver, soft and luminous (5) | AG + LOW | |
| 14 | HOISTS | |
| One, surrounded by accommodating people, uses an elevator (6) | I inside HOSTS | |
| 16 | ADHESION | |
| Bond had changed sound around (8) | Anagram of HAD + (NOISE reversed) | |
| 18 | ANNALIST | |
| One who records what happened with an inventory containing sodium (8) | (AN + LIST) outside NA | |
| 20 | GYRATE | |
| Guys oddly value spin (6) | GuYs + RATE | |
| 22 | RITES | |
| Admission of culprit established customary practices? (5) | culpRIT EStablished | |
| 24 | PORTRAIT | |
| Left deserter clinging to one picture (8) | PORT + (RAT outside I) | |
| 27 | CHEMICAL WARFARE | |
| A few claim archer organised fighting using destructive agents (8,7) | Anagram of A FEW CLAIM ARCHER | |
| 28 | LOPE | |
| Cut off end of line bound (4) | LOP + LIN(E) | |
| 29 | DOWNPLAYED | |
| Complete pad, newly redecorated, is understated (10) | DO + anagram of PAD NEWLY | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BOMB | |
| Retreating throng head from battlefield with explosive (4) | MOB reversed + (B)ATTLEFIELD | |
| 2 | SALVATION | |
| Tub, one included in beauty parlour’s restoration (9) | (VAT + I) inside SALON | |
| 3 | BUDGE | |
| Push financial plan with time lacking (5) | BUDGET minus T | |
| 4 | DRIVER | |
| Club record initially claimed by one entering pool, perhaps? (6) | (R)ECORD inside DIVER | |
| 5 | EVICTED | |
| Temperature showing in faulty device should be put out (7) | T inside anagram of DEVICE | |
| 7 | MURAL | |
| A strange, mounted, large wall decoration (5) | (A + RUM) reversed + L | |
| 8 | SIDEWINDER | |
| Missile is sent up by axis, say, filled with gas (10) | IS reversed + (WIND inside DEER) | |
| 9 | STRATEGY | |
| Contract not put forward in odd plan of action (8) | GET reversed inside STRAY | |
| 13 | THEATRICAL | |
| Reviewed article that greatly exaggerated? (10) | Anagram of (ARTICLE THA)T | |
| 15 | TALL SHIP | |
| Everyone keep quiet boarding crown’s sailing vessel (4,4) | (ALL + SH) inside TIP | |
| 16 | ACT | |
| A cabaret dropping a naked performance (3) | A + (CABARET minus A BARE) | |
| 17 | IMAGINARY | |
| A spirit dwelling in the body of one biblical character is not real (9) | (A + GIN) inside (I + MARY) | |
| 19 | SOPRANO | |
| Singer is very taken by new rap number (7) | SO + anagram of RAP + NO | |
| 21 | DRAW IN | |
| Reduce waste primarily lodged in outlet (4,2) | (W)ASTE inside DRAIN | |
| 23 | TIE UP | |
| Tether that is bitten by ram (3,2) | IE inside TUP | |
| 25 | RURAL | |
| Country regular worked less, for example (5) | Anagram of REGULAR minus EG | |
| 26 | NEED | |
| Want what a masseuse can do orally (4) | Sounds like KNEAD |
