| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | THREADBARE | |
| Study obstacle jumped by the stock (10) | (READ + BAR) inside THE | |
| 6 | WARM | |
| Westpac’s first branch is friendly and responsive (4) | (W)estpac + ARM | |
| 9 | MACRO | |
| Computer staff shortened computer instruction (5) | MAC + RO(d) | |
| 10 | APPOINTED | |
| A quiet couple prepared to dine as arranged (9) | A + PP + anagram of TO DINE | |
| 12 | FRIENDLIES | |
| Fan tells stories about end of bitter practice matches (10) | (FIEND + LIES) outside bitte(R) | |
| 13 | COG | |
| Firm close to firing unimportant person in the organisation (3) | CO + firin(G) | |
| 15 | AISLES | |
| A place that’s isolated by small passages (6) | A + ISLE + S | |
| 16 | GET IDEAS | |
| Swimmers in huge tide assumed to be ambitious? (3,5) | huGE TIDE ASsumed | |
| 18 | ENDURING | |
| Permanent dune shifted round (8) | Anagram of DUNE + RING | |
| 20 | CAPITA | |
| Heads from a mine in the outskirts of Canberra? (6) | (A + PIT) inside (C)anberr(A) | |
| 23 | AGE | |
| Get old, unbound contents of book? (3) | p)AGE(s | |
| 24 | AIRFREIGHT | |
| Cost of shipping iridium in Africa by crew (10) | IR inside AFR + EIGHT | |
| 26 | EYESHADES | |
| Visors certainly had wedged in pocket of withdrawn witness (9) | (YES + HAD) inside (SEE reversed) | |
| 27 | NORTH | |
| Point and dash not used in modified form of shorthand (5) | Anagram of SHORTHAND minus DASH | |
| 28 | FAST | |
| Sound like a shot (4) | Double Definition | |
| 29 | TRANSLATED | |
| Simplified service scheduled after brief time (10) | (RAN + SLATED) after T | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | TAME | |
| Master thanks the writer (4) | TA + ME | |
| 2 | RECORDS | |
| Releases some wines plugged with cork mostly (7) | REDS outside (COR)k | |
| 3 | ABOVE REPROACH | |
| Extra with role in interpretation of Bach opera is faultless (5,8) | OVER inside anagram of BACH OPERA | |
| 4 | BEARDS | |
| Hairy growths are trimmed in layers (6) | AR(e) inside BEDS | |
| 5 | REPAIRED | |
| Agent before broadcast is put right (8) | REP + AIRED | |
| 7 | ARTICLE | |
| Creative work left in cool section of newspaper (7) | ART + (L inside ICE) | |
| 8 | MADAGASCAR | |
| Island republic’s bananas delivered by a gas vehicle (10) | MAD + A + GAS + CAR | |
| 11 | INSPIRATIONAL | |
| New sort of PIN is sensible and encouraging (13) | Anagram of PIN IS + RATIONAL | |
| 14 | TAKE CARE OF | |
| Nurse is agitated after a Coke (4,4,2) | Anagram of AFTER A COKE | |
| 17 | INTRUDER | |
| Crook turned right following one prowler (8) | (Anagram of TURNED + R) after I | |
| 19 | DEEPENS | |
| Rising performer in competition, hanging around enclosure, gets stronger (7) | SEED reversed outside DEN | |
| 21 | INHERIT | |
| Be left in here, not totally with it (7) | IN + HER(e) + IT | |
| 22 | PRISON | |
| European capital without a working detention centre (6) | PARIS minus A + ON | |
| 25 | CHAD | |
| Combined group in church addressed African nation (4) | churCH ADdressed |
