| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PILGRIMAGE | |
| Part of a book about the Italian forbidding religious journey (10) | PAGE outside (IL + GRIM) | |
| 6 | ACID | |
| Bitter cold contracted by helper (4) | C inside AID | |
| 10 | RUN-UP | |
| Hastily make an approach (3-2) | Double Definition | |
| 11 | STIMULANT | |
| Arranged litmus test, initially after an exciting, vital action (9) | Anagram of LITMUS + [(T)est after AN] | |
| 12 | OF ONE MIND | |
| Agreed nothing with bad omen apparent in discovery (2,3,4) | O + (anagram of OMEN inside FIND) | |
| 13 | TERSE | |
| The dresser, in an odd way, is snappy (5) | (T)h(E) d(R)e(S)s(E)r | |
| 14 | SEE HERE | |
| Distracted sheepshearer not taking sharp look (3,4) | Anagram of SHEEPSHEARER minus SHARP | |
| 15 | RAPT | |
| Totally absorbed, right, and quick to learn? (4) | R + APT | |
| 18 | ETCH | |
| Eat into piece of bittersweet chocolate (4) | bittersweET CHocolate | |
| 20 | DIORAMA | |
| Small picturesque scene, one associated with love in play (7) | (I + O) inside DRAMA | |
| 23 | APART | |
| A light carriage returned in pieces (5) | A + (TRAP reversed) | |
| 24 | PROVENCAL | |
| French person confirmed call terminated before the end (9) | PROVEN + (CAL)l | |
| 25 | OBLIVIOUS | |
| Inattentive lie mostly exposed in patent (9) | (LI)e inside OBVIOUS | |
| 26 | SUPER | |
| Place I acquired from supplier is fantastic (5) | SUPPLIER minus (PL + I) | |
| 27 | GATE | |
| Take items of bling at emporium (4) | blinG AT Emporium | |
| 28 | ITINERANTS | |
| Intranet is reconfigured for those actively roaming (10) | Anagram of INTRANET IS | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PORPOISE | |
| Ocean swimmer characterised by power or elegance (8) | P + OR + POISE | |
| 2 | LONDONER | |
| Recluse providing refuge for college fellow – a city dweller (8) | LONER outside DON | |
| 3 | REPRESENTATIVE | |
| Agent sent in crooked privateer before end of lease (14) | SENT inside anagram of PRIVATEER + leas(E) | |
| 4 | MISSILE | |
| Failure to hit the mark that is recorded on exterior of large weapon (7) | MISS + (IE outside L) | |
| 5 | GRINDER | |
| Smile broadly, embarrassed about hard worker on board (7) | GRIN + (RED reversed) | |
| 7 | CHAIRS | |
| One involved in terrible crash is meeting runners (6) | I inside anagram of CRASH | |
| 8 | DUTIES | |
| Outsider losing or changing responsibilities (6) | Anagram of (OUTSIDER minus OR) | |
| 9 | MULTIPROCESSOR | |
| Cruel impostors wrecked a powerful digital computer (14) | Anagram of CRUEL IMPOSTORS | |
| 16 | SAUCEPAN | |
| Kitchen utensil shaped canapes containing stuff in the middle (8) | ANagram of CANAPES outside st(U)ff | |
| 17 | FAILURES | |
| Losers, right, not included in fair inducements (8) | FAIR minus R + LURES | |
| 19 | HOP TO IT | |
| Hurry up modification of photofit lacking features primarily (3,2,2) | Anagram of PHOTOFIT minus (F)eatures | |
| 20 | DROPS IN | |
| Doctor, before operations at home, stops by (5,2) | DR + OPS + IN | |
| 21 | BARONG | |
| Captain of industry with grand, large chopper (6) | BARON + G | |
| 22 | TABLET | |
| Medicinal substance is effective time after time (6) | (ABLE + T) after T |
