| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CLEMENTINE | |
| Citrus fruit mild in taste ultimately (10) | CLEMENT + IN + tast(E) | |
| 6 | FLAB | |
| Fine research unit collected fat (4) | F + LAB | |
| 10 | PAIRS | |
| Head of programming broadcasts a game of bowls (5) | (P)rogramming + AIRS | |
| 11 | PETTICOAT | |
| One company invested in particular shabby clothes and underwear (9) | (I+ CO) inside (PET + TAT) | |
| 12 | BASSET | |
| Hound group behind a form of tax (6) | SET after BAS | |
| 13 | BREACHES | |
| Barrister’s opening gets to violations of the law (8) | (B)arrister + REACHES | |
| 14 | EXTEND | |
| Add to reference book, except for the beginning and end (6) | (t)EXT + END | |
| 16 | SLIPPAGE | |
| Cutting attendant’s delay (8) | SLIP + PAGE | |
| 17 | PORPOISE | |
| Sea mammal characterised by power or elegance (8) | P + OR + POISE | |
| 19 | PESTER | |
| Annoy fellow crossing street (6) | PEER outside ST | |
| 21 | TITLE BAR | |
| A brittle, fractured part of window (5,3) | Anagram of A BRITTLE | |
| 22 | SETTLE | |
| Place in Washington not acknowledging a land (6) | SEATTLE minus A | |
| 25 | EMBELLISH | |
| Centrepiece of Bohemian ring is hard to beautify? (9) | Boh(EM)ian + BELL + IS + H | |
| 26 | DINGO | |
| Wild animal died during journey (5) | D + IN + GO | |
| 27 | SHED | |
| Get rid of outdoor storage unit (4) | Double Definition | |
| 28 | WHITE DWARF | |
| Dense star withdrew, upset about a film’s lead character (5,5) | (Anagram of WITHDREW outside A) + (F)ilm | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CAPABLE | |
| Efficient personal assistant entering message once (7) | PA inside CABLE | |
| 2 | EXITS | |
| Leaves cross buried in site under reconstruction (5) | X inside anagram of SITE | |
| 3 | EASTERN ROSELLA | |
| Arrest one prepared to trade a native bird (7,7) | Anagram of ARREST ONE + SELL + A | |
| 4 | TYPE | |
| Kind characters in captivity, perhaps (4) | captiviTY PErhaps | |
| 5 | NATURAL | |
| Brown floating up on Russian river is organic (7) | TAN reversed + URAL | |
| 7 | LION-HEART | |
| Brave person fired up about working with judge (4-5) | LIT outside (ON + HEAR) | |
| 8 | BATISTE | |
| Club ties fashioned in fine fabric (7) | BAT + anagram of TIES | |
| 9 | MISAPPREHENDED | |
| Didn’t understand forged papers checked by him over and over (14) | Anagram of PAPERS inside (HIM reversed) + ENDED | |
| 15 | TURNTABLE | |
| Spinner scrambled run during involved battle (9) | Anagram of RUN inside anagram of BATTLE | |
| 16 | SEE | |
| Recognise top performer missing out on final (3) | SEE(d) | |
| 17 | PUTTERS | |
| Green activists, say, posted in supplementary information? (7) | UTTER inside PS | |
| 18 | SPANISH | |
| Censure is expressed in quiet language (7) | (PAN + IS) inside SH | |
| 20 | REEL OFF | |
| Effortlessly repeat dance of folks at the front (4,3) | REEL + OF + (F)olks | |
| 23 | TINEA | |
| Traces of ointment in each athlete’s foot, say (5) | ointmenT IN EAch | |
| 24 | WHIT | |
| Comedian interrupted by heckler at the start a little bit (4) | WIT outside (H)eckler |
