| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | COCKTAIL | |
| Fluffy duck, say, changed tack in wind (8) | Anagram of TACK inside COIL | |
| 5 | PSALMS | |
| Pastor originally slams rewritten religious book (6) | (P)astor + anagram of SLAMS | |
| 9 | SEASONED | |
| Hardened grain separated by a boy (8) | SEED outside (A + SON) | |
| 10 | BOUNCE | |
| Oz after end of superb spring? (6) | OUNCE after super(B) | |
| 12 | OCKER | |
| Australian musicians knowing no bounds (5) | r)OCKER(s | |
| 13 | PREVALENT | |
| Stop carrying a large current (9) | PREVENT outside (A + L) | |
| 14 | ANTICIPATION | |
| An excited optician, holding it, recalled prediction (12) | AN + [anagram of OPTICIAN outside (IT reversed)] | |
| 17 | ESCORT AGENCY | |
| Carbon, factored into distribution of energy, cost a company supplier (6,6) | C inside anagram of ENERGY COST A | |
| 22 | STRANGLER | |
| Murderer left in the custody of person unknown (9) | L inside STRANGER | |
| 23 | BRAKE | |
| Check a place overgrown with bushes and shrubs (5) | Double Definition | |
| 24 | DODGEM | |
| EV car company with capital from Musk (6) | DODGE + (M)usk | |
| 25 | OVERPASS | |
| A highway? Possibly (8) | Cryptic Definition | |
| 26 | PUT OUT | |
| Turned up to strongly recommend broadcast (3,3) | UP reversed + TOUT | |
| 27 | BRITTANY | |
| European first to trounce any region of France (8) | BRIT + (T)rounce + ANY | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | COSMOS | |
| Business text about centre of known universe (6) | CO + [SMS outside kn(O)wn] | |
| 2 | CRANKY | |
| It’s replaced by a number of taxis in city full of bends and turns (6) | C(RANK for IT)Y | |
| 3 | TWO IRON | |
| One spotted in town or drunken club (3,4) | I inside anagram of TOWN OR | |
| 4 | INEXPLICABLE | |
| At home, defective pixel displayed by pay TV is mystifying (12) | IN + anagram of PIXEL + CABLE | |
| 6 | STOMATA | |
| Holes in leaves, say, largely covering pruned fruit plant (7) | (SA)y outside TOMAT(o) | |
| 7 | LINGERIE | |
| Cover for one contemplating retirement that is available after delay (8) | IE after LINGER | |
| 8 | SHEETING | |
| Metal covering that woman, say, inlaid with tin (8) | SHE + (EG outside TIN) | |
| 11 | DEVICE DRIVER | |
| Computer program I’d received somehow containing origin of virus, right? (6,6) | Anagram of ID RECEIVED outside (V)irus + R | |
| 15 | MESSED UP | |
| Seems deranged fool, not all there, made a mistake (6,2) | Anagram of SEEMS + DUP(e) | |
| 16 | ACCREDIT | |
| Recognise rough cider served in one part of Australia (8) | Anagram of CIDER inside ACT | |
| 18 | RONDEAU | |
| Creative work available in mixture of red and gold (7) | ON inside anagram of RED + AU | |
| 19 | CABARET | |
| Court limiting a nude floor show (7) | CT outside (A + BARE) | |
| 20 | CANADA | |
| Dismiss a lawyer in the US part of the world (6) | CAN + A + DA | |
| 21 | FEISTY | |
| Spirited one locked in iron farm structure (6) | I inside (FE + STY) |
