| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | ANGEL | |
| An application in semi-solid form is a very good one (5) | AN + GEL | |
| 4 | DECORATOR | |
| Interior designer last month briefly hooked up with speaker (9) | DEC(ember) + ORATOR | |
| 9 | TALIPOT | |
| A mouthpiece clutched in youngster’s palm? (7) | (A + LIP) inside TOT | |
| 10 | MAUNDER | |
| Mother included in ramble (7) | MA + UNDER | |
| 11 | POLYNESIA | |
| Pacific island group is openly maligned by America’s leader (9) | Anagram of IS OPENLY + (A)MERICA | |
| 13 | HOODS | |
| Bad guys lifted car parts (5) | Double Definition | |
| 14 | LION-HEARTED | |
| Brave told stories about another in a bad way (4-7) | LIED about anagram of ANOTHER | |
| 16 | SAD | |
| Sea, oddly, died down (3) | (S)E(A) + D | |
| 18 | TOP | |
| Leading vessel turned back (3) | POT reversed | |
| 20 | PRETENTIOUS | |
| Pompous goody-goody keeping on big top, say (11) | PIOUS outside (RE + TENT) | |
| 22 | ADEPT | |
| Experienced associates of intolerant pedagogue returned (5) | intoleranT PEDAgogue | |
| 23 | ON THE WANE | |
| Mixture of ethane now past its prime (2,3,4) | Anagram of ETHANE NOW | |
| 25 | STILTED | |
| Wooden pole put on an angle (7) | S + TILTED | |
| 26 | HIS NIBS | |
| Blow off steam about writer, one in authority (3,4) | HISS outside NIB | |
| 27 | TREASURED | |
| Favourite walk around stable (9) | TREAD outside SURE | |
| 28 | LINED | |
| Wrinkled, like the inside of a good suit (5) | Double Definition | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | AUTOPILOT | |
| A perfect place contracted group’s guide on board ship (9) | A + (UTOPI)A + LOT | |
| 2 | GALILEO | |
| Great Italian goalie tossed around ball finally (7) | Anagram of GOALIE outside BAL(L) | |
| 3 | LAPIN | |
| Go round wearing rabbit fur (5) | LAP + IN | |
| 4 | DOT | |
| Complete time period (3) | DO + T | |
| 5 | COMPARTMENT | |
| Division’s remark about gin turning up (11) | COMMENT outside (TRAP reversed) | |
| 6 | ROUGHED IT | |
| Resistance leader from Germany, living in hide-out, somehow did without basic comforts (7,2) | R + [(G)ERMANY inside anagram of HIDEOUT] | |
| 7 | TEDIOUS | |
| Outsider, greatly disconcerted, is tiresome (7) | Anagram of (OUTSIDE)R | |
| 8 | RORTS | |
| Reports missing record number of dishonest schemes (5) | REPORTS minus EP | |
| 12 | SHAREHOLDER | |
| Investor has fixed her up with senior (11) | Anagram of HAS + (HER reversed) + OLDER | |
| 15 | HEPATITIS | |
| High temperature – it is restricting onset of patient’s viral disease (9) | (HEAT + IT IS) outside (P)ATIENT | |
| 17 | DISPERSED | |
| Broadcast is essentially produced in vacated dockland? (9) | (IS + PER SE) inside D(OCKLAN)D | |
| 19 | PUERILE | |
| Adolescent turned up on ecstasy to irritate (7) | UP reversed + E + RILE | |
| 21 | ORATION | |
| Prepared to air one unfinished speech (7) | Anagram of TO AIR + (ON)E | |
| 22 | ASSET | |
| Help a small group (5) | A + S + SET | |
| 24 | EASEL | |
| Carefully move large piece of artist’s equipment (5) | EASE + L | |
| 26 | HAD | |
| Experienced firm giving up right (3) | HARD minus R |
