| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PARAPET | |
| Standard placed next to a special wall used for protection (7) | PAR + A + PET | |
| 5 | AROUSE | |
| Turn on circuit in a device (6) | O inside (A + RUSE) | |
| 8 | RESISTANT | |
| Is possible result of exposure in time off withstanding adverse conditions? (9) | (IS + TAN) inside REST | |
| 9 | See 21-down | |
| 11 | EARLY | |
| Advanced at great cost east of front (5) | d(EARLY) | |
| 12 | COMPETENT | |
| Qualified company representative restated tenet (9) | CO + MP + anagram of TENET | |
| 13 | DISABLED | |
| Tax form ID on return was first invalidated (8) | (BAS + ID) reversed + LED | |
| 15 | BISTRO | |
| Selection offered in club is troubling food provider (6) | cluB IS TROubling | |
| 17 | CASHEW | |
| Use teeth eating a small nut (6) | CHEW outside (A +S) | |
| 19 | NEHEMIAH | |
| Saint, not associated with heathenism, translated a book of the Bible (8) | Anagram of HEATHENISM minus ST | |
| 22 | LEASEHOLD | |
| Holes repaired in main rented property (9) | Anagram of HOLES inside LEAD | |
| 23 | ASSAM | |
| A religious service backed an India state (5) | A + (MASS reversed) | |
| 24 | RABAT | |
| Boozer turned back at important place in Morocco (5) | BAR reversed + AT | |
| 25 | APOSTOLIC | |
| Papal stool roughly drawn in a picture (9) | Anagram of STOOL inside (A + PIC) | |
| 26 | ADORED | |
| Drink after a party is liked a lot (6) | RED after (A + DO) | |
| 27 | MONGREL | |
| Hybrid variety of lemon stuffed by Greek (7) | Anagram of LEMON outside GR | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PERPENDICULAR | |
| Upright salesperson reversed and lined up car somehow (13) | REP reversed + anagram of LINED UP CAR | |
| 2 | RESORTS | |
| Entertainment centres are missing a computer programmer’s routines (7) | (ARE minus A) + SORTS | |
| 3 | PESKY | |
| Power drawn by small type of refrigerator is annoying (5) | P + ESKY | |
| 4 | THATCHER | |
| Provider of top cover that caught the girl (8) | THAT + C + HER | |
| 5 | ASTHMA | |
| Remains with mother checking temperature and respiratory problem (6) | (ASH + MA) outside T | |
| 6 | ON THE RISE | |
| Moulded sheet iron is going up (2,3,4) | ANagram of SHEET IRON | |
| 7 | STUDENT | |
| Apprentice died oddly in a dare-devil act (7) | (D)i(E)d inside STUNT | |
| 10 | PETROCHEMICAL | |
| Representatives, primarily in OPEC, claim the converted output of the refining process (13) | (R)epresentatives inside anagram of OPEC CLAIM THE | |
| 14 | BEEFEATER | |
| Old guard’s raised fee accepted by striker (9) | FEE reversed inside BEATER | |
| 16 | HEADROOM | |
| He replaced a door with half millimetre clearance? (8) | HE + anagram of A DOOR + (M)m | |
| 18 | STABBED | |
| Cricketers turned up on ground in an injured state (7) | BATS reversed + BED | |
| 20 | INSULAR | |
| Urinals out of order should be closed (7) | Anagram of URINALS | |
| 21 & 9-across | DONALD TRUMP | |
| “Don’t bum around, lad” ordered leader (6,5) | (DONT + RUMP) outside anagram of LAD | |
| 23 | ACTIN | |
| Muscle protein and carbon absorbed by a metal (5) | C inside (A + TIN) |
