| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | REPUTATION | |
| Energy put into helping character (10) | (E + PUT) inside RATION | |
| 6 | SPAR | |
| Part of rigging a boxing contest (4) | Double Definition | |
| 9 | STORM | |
| Part of forecast or, maybe, violent weather (5) | forecaST OR Maybe | |
| 10 | ALIGHTING | |
| A feature of stage management is coming down (9) | A + LIGHTING | |
| 12 | EPIDEMICS | |
| Medic is unsettled after recording outbreaks of disease (9) | Anagram of MEDIC IS after EP | |
| 13 | LATER | |
| A little peripheral (a terminal) in the future (5) | peripheraL A TERminal | |
| 14 | SPAM | |
| Keeps track of returned and unwanted mail (4) | MAPS reversed | |
| 15 | CONSTRUE | |
| Prisoner’s right to read (8) | CONS + TRUE | |
| 18 | ON THE SLY | |
| “Honestly” taken completely a different way? (2,3,3) | &lit; Anagram of HONESTLY | |
| 20 | IRIS | |
| One trimmed wax plant with showy flowers (4) | I + (RIS)E | |
| 24 | ONSET | |
| Start working as an actor (5) | Double Definition | |
| 25 | CRIMPLENE | |
| Writer occupied by language originally used in crime material (9) | [PEN outside (L)ANGUAGE] inside CRIME | |
| 26 | SNAIL MAIL | |
| Wild animal is attached to large, conventional post (5,4) | Anagram of ANIMAL IS + L | |
| 27 | ULTRA | |
| Radical one sacrificed in bizarre ritual (5) | Anagram of RITUAL minus I | |
| 28 | SHED | |
| Lose fragment right away (4) | SHRED minus R | |
| 29 | REAPPEARED | |
| Paper re-filed with auditors turned up again? (10) | Anagram of PAPER + EARED | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | RASHES | |
| Skin problems are reportedly connected to remains (6) | R (sounds like) + ASHES | |
| 2 | PHONIES | |
| One wearing rings may be misleading people (7) | I inside PHONES | |
| 3 | TEMPERAMENTAL | |
| Harden a metal containing nitrogen that’s volatile (13) | TEMPER + A + METAL outside N | |
| 4 | THAT IS | |
| Sit up holding hat, for example (4,2) | SIT reversed outside HAT | |
| 5 | OMISSION | |
| Leader from overseas calling for exclusion (8) | (O)VERSEAS + MISSION | |
| 7 | PRINTER | |
| Fast runner, missing the start, connected computer equipment (7) | (S)PRINTER | |
| 8 | REGARDED | |
| Noticed rose, for example, growing outside pruned garden (8) | RED outside GARDE(N) | |
| 11 | HOLY SCRIPTURE | |
| Representation of Christ purely about heart of God? (4,9) | &LIT; anagram of CHRIST PURELY outside G(O)D | |
| 16 | COLOSSUS | |
| Giant loss accepted by company linked with America (8) | LOSS inside (CO + US) | |
| 17 | BLOCKADE | |
| Barrier is secure in criminal quarter (8) | LOCK inside BAD + (E)ast | |
| 19 | TO SPARE | |
| Seaport shifted over and above what is required (2,5) | Anagram of SEAPORT | |
| 21 | SHELTER | |
| Security is transparently thin around vacant lot? (7) | SHEER outside L(o)T | |
| 22 | FILLIP | |
| Dose of medicine, if knocked back, could be a shot in the arm (6) | (PILL + IF) reversed | |
| 23 | REWARD | |
| Cheque writer picked up pay (6) | DRAWER reversed |
David
Thank you for identifying the &lits, which confirmed my choices.