| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CHOP-CHOP | |
| Two pieces of meat sliced quickly? (4-4) | CHOP + CHOP | |
| 5 | ELATED | |
| Happy worker in news restricting overtime (6) | ED outside LATE | |
| 10 | DISCONTINUATION | |
| Break dance group making a comeback in the country (15) | DISCO + (UNIT reversed inside NATION) | |
| 11 | ROUNDABOUT | |
| Our band, in a new setting, finished with “Carousel” (10) | Anagram of OUR BAND + OUT | |
| 12 | SUIT | |
| Administrative official reduced size of hotel accommodation (4) | SUIT(e) | |
| 14 | AREAS | |
| Fields are grassy in the centre (5) | ARE + gr(AS)sy | |
| 15 | RING A BELL | |
| Jewellery and label oddly seem familiar (4,1,4) | RING + anagram of LABEL | |
| 17 | KILLER BEE | |
| Aggressive worker and rebel like being manipulated (6,3) | Anagram of REBEL LIKE | |
| 21 | TEMPO | |
| Rate parts of system, possibly (5) | sysTEM POssibly | |
| 23 | EDGY | |
| Irritable and terribly fidgety once fit has passed (4) | Anagram of FIDGETY minus FIT | |
| 24 | COMPARISON | |
| Capital available after company managed primarily with distinction (10) | (PARIS + ON) after [CO + (M)anaged] | |
| 27 | EXPERIMENTATION | |
| Cross taken up by mean petitioner affected research (15) | X inside anagram of MEAN PETITIONER | |
| 28 | PANAMA | |
| Criticise a graduate’s hat (6) | PAN + A + MA | |
| 29 | READINGS | |
| Values shown on gauges are altered by damage caused by accidents (8) | Anagram of ARE + DINGS | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CODER | |
| Software engineer writing in C, right? (5) | ODE inside (C + R) | |
| 2 | OBSCURE | |
| “B” scored in course confused minor (7) | B inside anagram of COURSE | |
| 3 | CROP DUSTER | |
| Produce sprinkler from assorted pre-cut rods (4,6) | Anagram of PRE-CUT RODS | |
| 4 | OCTOBER | |
| Alliance in bloc to be reviewed in one month (7) | blOC TO BE Reviewed | |
| 6 | LOAN | |
| Head of organisation in computer linkup borrowed money (4) | (O)rganisation inside LAN | |
| 7 | TRIBUTE | |
| Tribe not quite given native American recognition (7) | TRIB(e) + UTE | |
| 8 | DONATELLO | |
| Italian sculptor is on a report tabled in function (9) | (ON + A + TELL) inside DO | |
| 9 | IN TURN | |
| One after another mended tin boiler (2,4) | Anagram of TIN + URN | |
| 13 | MASTERCARD | |
| Crates remade right in extremely good plastic (10) | (Anagram of CRATES + R) inside MAD | |
| 14 | ANKLE-DEEP | |
| Shallow one went first into store (5-4) | AN + (LED inside KEEP) | |
| 16 | ICE | |
| Cool down components of graphic equaliser (3) | graphIC Equaliser | |
| 18 | LEG-SPIN | |
| Pakistan’s opener, buoyed by single, smashed bowling (3-4) | (P)akistan inside anagram of SINGLE | |
| 19 | BROOME | |
| Accommodation reserved in last place visited by tourists in WA (6) | ROOM inside BE | |
| 20 | EXPANSE | |
| Former partner looks around last piece of office space (7) | EX + PANS + offic(E) | |
| 22 | MISSION | |
| Fail to see one on task-force (7) | MISS + I + ON | |
| 25 | NO-NOS | |
| Child playing back unacceptable things (2-3) | (SON + ON) reversed | |
| 26 | PRIM | |
| Puritanical chief finished early (4) | (PRIM)e |
