| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PATIENCE | |
| Cards match completed by bridge player in time (8) | (TIE + N) inside PACE | |
| 5 | STRAND | |
| Run aground with anchor finally in position (6) | ANCHO(R) inside STAND | |
| 9 | EXPERIMENTALIST | |
| Professional admitting terrible ailment is testing person (15) | EXPERT outside (anagram of AILMENT + IS) | |
| 11 | SEE THROUGH | |
| Penetrate boil not completely hard (3,7) | (SEETH)E + ROUGH | |
| 12 | YARN | |
| Energy not maintained in long story (4) | YEARN minus E | |
| 14 | PASTOR | |
| Minister finished work at the centre (6) | PAST + W(OR)K | |
| 15 | STOUTEST | |
| Most resolute students ultimately not allowed into examination (8) | STUDENT(S) + (OUT inside TEST) | |
| 17 | SLAVERED | |
| Hard worker, suffering from exposure, showed signs of hunger (8) | SLAVE + RED | |
| 19 | BIASED | |
| Partisan, one for instance, engaged by foundation (6) | (I + AS) inside BED | |
| 22 | HALL | |
| Everybody gathered at the back of hospital’s assembly room (4) | ALL after H | |
| 23 | LIBERATION | |
| Release abridged form of written accusation and share (10) | (LIBE)L + RATION | |
| 26 | SHRINKING VIOLET | |
| Shy person accepted sovereign wearing odd-looking short veil (9,6) | (IN + KING) inside anagram of SHORT VEIL | |
| 27 | EMERGE | |
| Come out and mingle after end of performance (6) | MERGE after PERFORMANC(E) | |
| 28 | URINATED | |
| Weed, one found in nature, weirdly died (8) | I inside anagram of NATURE | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PEELS | |
| Soft fish sheds skin (5) | P + EELS | |
| 2 | TAPPETS | |
| Drain and measure up engine parts (7) | TAP + (STEP reversed) | |
| 3 | EARTHMOVER | |
| The army greatly worked over a digger, say (10) | Anagram of (THE ARM)Y + OVER | |
| 4 | COMMON | |
| Ordinary punctuation?mark not totally acceptable (6) | (COMM)A + ON | |
| 6 | TEAK | |
| Timber cut down one side (4) | S(TEAK) | |
| 7 | ANIMATE | |
| Encourage one engaged by an associate (7) | I inside (AN + MATE) | |
| 8 | DETONATED | |
| 24 rolled up, arranged date, and went off? (9) | NOTED reversed + anagram of DATE | |
| 10 | NIGHTS | |
| Times when people find it hard to see things at sea (6) | Anagram of THINGS | |
| 13 | MUTILATION | |
| Physical deformity, one located originally in evolution (10) | [I + (L)OCATED] inside MUTATION | |
| 14 | POST-HASTE | |
| Speedy delivery has limitations of time? (4-5) | POST + HAS + (T)IM(E) | |
| 16 | GEMINI | |
| Sign, for example, lifted on top of small car (6) | EG reversed + MINI | |
| 18 | AT LARGE | |
| Tonne carried by a jumbo for free (2,5) | T inside (A + LARGE) | |
| 20 | SKILLET | |
| Frying pan butcher spotted among a collection of items (7) | KILL inside SET | |
| 21 | VERGER | |
| Church official is ignored by upset grievers (6) | Anagram of GRIEVERS minus IS | |
| 24 | NOTED | |
| Not one in charge of a paper is prominent (5) | NOT + ED | |
| 25 | SNUG | |
| Compact weapons turned up (4) | GUNS reversed |
