| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DISMANTLE | |
| Knock down front part of dangerous and dilapidated salt mine (9) | (D)angerous + anagram of SALT MINE | |
| 6 | COPSE | |
| Body not connected to river or thick bush (5) | CORPSE minus R | |
| 9 | STORM | |
| Part of forecast or, maybe, violent weather (5) | forecaST OR Maybe | |
| 10 | PARTRIDGE | |
| Game bird’s split long narrow crest (9) | PART + RIDGE | |
| 11 | EASINESS | |
| A selection of ideas, in essence, may be linked for simplicity (8) | idEAS IN ESSence | |
| 12 | BOGOTA | |
| Leave in boat prepared for South American capital (6) | GO inside anagram of BOAT | |
| 14 | BRAS | |
| A large number of bold women wear these (4) | (BRAS)h | |
| 15 | RANSACKED | |
| Group of sailors fired and searched thoroughly (9) | RAN + SACKED | |
| 17 | INTERFERE | |
| One arranged free rent to cause obstruction (9) | I + anagram of FREE RENT | |
| 19 | EVEN | |
| Most of contest is neck and neck (4) | (EVEN)t | |
| 22 | CURATE | |
| Take care of museum’s clerical assistant (6) | Double Definition | |
| 23 | STRAPPER | |
| Agent leaves retired person who’s big and strong (8) | (REP + PARTS) reversed | |
| 25 | EPITOMISE | |
| Illustrate nearly all of epic island portrayed in book (9) | (EPI)c + (IS inside TOME) | |
| 26 | DENSE | |
| Study set largely tightly packed (5) | DEN + (SE)t | |
| 27 | TURNS | |
| Temperature connected to water boilers changes (5) | T + URNS | |
| 28 | DETERGENT | |
| Cleaner put off by fellow with good manners (9) | DETER + GENT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DASHER | |
| Speeder has crumpled front-end of Escort in drive (6) | [Anagram of HAS + (E)scort] inside DR | |
| 2 | SPONSOR | |
| Small bridge of connecting tissue or support (7) | S + PONS + OR | |
| 3 | ADMINISTRATIONS | |
| Management teams in commercial vehicle on street restricted supplies (15) | AD + MINI + ST + RATIONS | |
| 4 | TAPESTRIES | |
| Needlework samples shown at end of videos (10) | TRIES after TAPES | |
| 5 | ECRU | |
| Section of piecrust is very light brown (4) | piECRUst | |
| 6 | CORPORATE RAIDER | |
| Professional held up by area director worked with takeover specialist (9,6) | PRO reversed inside anagram of AREA DIRECTOR | |
| 7 | PADDOCK | |
| Protect waterfront area that’s enclosed by a fence (7) | PAD + DOCK | |
| 8 | EMERALDS | |
| Centrepiece of diamond fenced by shoddy dealers in gems (8) | diaMond inside anagram of DEALERS | |
| 13 | INVESTMENT | |
| Venture capital, say, established millions in coin (10) | (EST + M) inside INVENT | |
| 16 | DISCREET | |
| Judicious, amended edicts are lacking a bit (8) | Anagram of EDICTS ARE minus A | |
| 18 | TERRIER | |
| Tenacious person’s blunder acknowledged in bank (7) | ERR inside TIER | |
| 20 | EXPENSE | |
| Cost is seen in a different light after international show ended early (7) | Anagram of SEEN after EXP(o) | |
| 21 | ARREST | |
| Check resolution used in gallery display (6) | RES inside ART | |
| 24 | WIND | |
| Snake doctor in WA, say (4) | Double Definition |
