| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SALTBUSH | |
| Plant located in arid region arranged last bus in front of hotel (8) | Anagram of LAST + BUS + H | |
| 5 | ASYLUM | |
| Harbour city ultimately forming part of a poor area (6) | cit(Y) inside (A + SLUM) | |
| 10 | AGGRO | |
| A mixture of grog responsible for offensive behaviour (5) | A + anagram of GROG | |
| 11 | COLONISER | |
| Pioneer is accommodated by company person with few friends (9) | IS inside (CO + LONER) | |
| 12 | DRUG DEALER | |
| E-trader, perhaps, treated large dude right (4,6) | Anagram of LARGE DUDE + R | |
| 13 | HYMN | |
| Church song that fellow heard (4) | Sounds like HIM | |
| 15 | STOOPS | |
| Duck in close with small ducks (6) | (O inside STOP) + S | |
| 16 | TRUSTED | |
| Front of tank suffered from corrosion for sure (7) | (T)ank + RUSTED | |
| 19 | EYE | |
| Look at pieces painted in pale yellow (3) | palE YEllow | |
| 20 | HERETIC | |
| Dissident’s present medical problem (7) | HERE +TIC | |
| 21 | ISRAEL | |
| Re-directed airlines not flying in a Middle Eastern country (6) | Anagram of AIRLINES minus IN | |
| 23 | PORK | |
| Meat slices from shop or kiosk (4) | shoP OR Kiosk | |
| 25 | PRESUPPOSE | |
| Accept uppers organised by model (10) | Anagram of UPPERS + POSE | |
| 27 | APPOINTEE | |
| One nominated antipope replaced Pope finally (9) | Anagram of ANTIPOPE + pop(E) | |
| 28 | SPACE | |
| Special serve that wins play (5) | SP + ACE | |
| 29 | HEDGER | |
| One who works in the garden with hard trimming tool (6) | H + EDGER | |
| 30 | INCENSED | |
| Audience from hotel noticed fuming (8) | Sounds like INN SENSED | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | STANDS | |
| Stone, including seconds, doesn’t change (6) | ST + AND + S | |
| 2 | LEG-CUTTER | |
| Conclusion of retiring copper included in letter delivery (3-6) | [retirin(G) + CU} inside LETTER | |
| 3 | BLOODY OATH | |
| Old boy switched oxygen at hospital – that’s certainly true (6,4) | ANagram of OLD BOY + O + AT + H | |
| 4 | SOCIAL SECURITY | |
| Income support from drunken cleric is out, say (6,8) | Anagram of CLERIC IS OUT SAY | |
| 6 | SANE | |
| Balanced article included in middle of insert (4) | AN inside in(SE)rt | |
| 7 | LUSTY | |
| Healthy core of valued collection of pigs? (5) | va(LU)ed + STY | |
| 8 | MARINADE | |
| Man, briefly spotted by a diner, ordered flavour enhancer (8) | (MA)n + anagram of A DINER | |
| 9 | ALBERT EINSTEIN | |
| Aluminium and moulded tin beer mug, a really smart one (6,8) | AL + anagram of TIN BEER + STEIN | |
| 14 | CURRY PASTE | |
| Kneaded pastry stored in preserve with spicy ingredient (5,5) | Anagram of PASTRY inside CURE | |
| 17 | THE ROYALS | |
| King staying in hotel, say, manipulated family members? (3,6) | R inside anagram of HOTEL SAY | |
| 18 | WHIPLASH | |
| Injury to neck joint left in soothing lotion (8) | (HIP + L) inside WASH | |
| 22 | DEFEND | |
| Guard is fed up with objective (6) | FED reversed + END | |
| 24 | RAPID | |
| Fleet quietly moved in to invade (5) | P inside RAID | |
| 26 | FINE | |
| Fair penalty (4) | Double Definition |
