| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | LOG CABIN | |
| Register when taxi returns home (3,5) | LOG CAB IN | |
| 5 | UTTERS | |
| Speaks total sense at the start (6) | UTTER + (S)ense | |
| 10 | TRAPEZE | |
| Swing part pulled back with ease by the sound of it (7) | PART reversed + sounds like EASE | |
| 11 | PENSION | |
| Writer’s working after one government handout (7) | PENS + (ON after I) | |
| 12 | LOLLY | |
| Sweet drop, whisky with no mixer (5) | LOLL + (WHISKY minus WHISK) | |
| 13 | RECEIVERS | |
| Some tennis players, on service, moved around (9) | RE + anagram of SERVICE | |
| 14 | BETA PARTICLE | |
| Be linked to report about bung nuclear emission (4,8) | (BE + ARTICLE) outside TAP | |
| 18 | PROFESSIONAL | |
| Expert, according to Spooner, fails miserably (12) | Anagram of SPOONER FAILS | |
| 21 | NURSLINGS | |
| Small children run around baby carriers (9) | RUN reverse + SLINGS | |
| 23 | MANGE | |
| Fellow gets 50% off problem with hair-loss (5) | MAN + GE(ts) | |
| 24 | ROTUNDA | |
| Large cask consumed by staff in front of a building like The Pantheon (7) | (TUN inside ROD) + A | |
| 25 | OUTFACE | |
| Brave one in a suit started with cooked tofu (7) | Anagram of TOFU after ACE | |
| 26 | LARDER | |
| Fat user giving up American food store (6) | LARD + (USER minus US) | |
| 27 | STACKERS | |
| Small sailing boats, say – they make heaps (8) | S + TACKERS | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | LITTLE | |
| Small pieces of broken satellite not contaminated by sea (6) | Anagram of SATELLITE minus SEA | |
| 2 | GLADLY | |
| Learner taken in by grand lady with good grace (6) | L inside (G + LADY) | |
| 3 | ACETYLENE | |
| Welding gas is clean, yet terribly volatile in the end (9) | Anagram of CLEAN YET + volatil(E) | |
| 4 | ICE-CREAM SUNDAE | |
| A cinema secured whisked type of frozen dessert (3-5,6) | Anagram of A CINEMA SECURED | |
| 6 | TANGI | |
| Taste shown by one Maori funeral ceremony (5) | TANG + I | |
| 7 | EVIDENCE | |
| Study, in English, failing witness (8) | DEN inside (E + VICE) | |
| 8 | SONGSTER | |
| Family member gets upset with original piece from rock vocalist (8) | SON + anagram of GETS + (R)ock | |
| 9 | SPECTATOR SPORT | |
| Top actress drunkenly left much-watched activity (9,5) | Anagram of TOP ACTRESS + PORT | |
| 15 | TRAUMATIC | |
| Atrium at damaged entrance to church is shocking (9) | Anagram of ATRIUM AT + (C)hurch | |
| 16 | SPANDREL | |
| Arch across drive should be joined to the Spanish architectural feature (8) | SPAN + DR + EL | |
| 17 | FOUR-STAR | |
| High-class rating of ours, tarnished to some degree (4-4) | oF OURS TARnished | |
| 19 | ENCASE | |
| Wrap up a scene with characters taking on new roles (6) | Anagram of A SCENE | |
| 20 | REBELS | |
| Leader of band, taking part in lively dances, defies tradition (6) | (B)and inside REELS | |
| 22 | LANCE | |
| Spear fabulous knight giving up fortune (5) | LANCELOT minus LOT |
