| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | IMPASSABLE | |
| One bunch admitting power expert should be blocked (10) | (I + MASS) outside P + ABLE | |
| 6 | HUGE | |
| “Titanic” could be grand in colour (4) | G inside HUE | |
| 9 | PEASANT | |
| Unsophisticated person left out of welcome (7) | PLEASANT minus L | |
| 10 | NOWHERE | |
| At the moment this place is out of the running (7) | NOW + HERE | |
| 12 | STANDARD | |
| Grade street as well as a road (8) | ST + AND + A + RD | |
| 13 | GLITCH | |
| Small problem disheartened girl with a constant teasing desire? (6) | G(ir)L + ITCH | |
| 15 | ADDLES | |
| Supplement with less reduced causes confusion (6) | ADD + LES(s) | |
| 16 | LEARNED | |
| Academic managed housing to make money (7) | LED outside EARN | |
| 18 | KEY | |
| Important fellow bucked by pack animal (3) | DONKEY minus DON | |
| 19 | EXPLORE | |
| Look into international show not totally sticking to traditions (7) | EXP(o) + LORE | |
| 21 | COPIED | |
| Reproduced fish baked in pie? Just the opposite (6) | PIE inside COD | |
| 24 | DRONGO | |
| Doctor on crack and dope (6) | DR + ON + GO | |
| 25 | ATTITUDE | |
| Flighty singer in a duet changed position? (8) | TIT inside anagram of A DUET | |
| 27 | OUTCROP | |
| Exposed rock group amended court procedure (7) | Anagram of COURT + OP | |
| 28 | HOTLINE | |
| Emergency communication link should be scrambled in hotel (7) | Anagram of IN HOTEL | |
| 29 | SIRE | |
| Father is one who complains loudly (4) | Sounds like SIGHER | |
| 30 | INGREDIENT | |
| Component’s colour, one accepted by fashionable fellow (10) | (RED + I) inside (IN + GENT) | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | IMPOSE | |
| Decree that is limiting government representative overseas (6) | IE outside (MP + OS) | |
| 2 | PLACARD | |
| Public notice political party sent up by comedian (7) | ALP reversed + CARD | |
| 3 | SCANDALMONGER | |
| Scrutinise doddery old German, one spreading dirt (13) | SCAN + anagram of OLD GERMAN | |
| 4 | ASTERISKED | |
| A horse, jumping across hazard, is marked for special attention (10) | (A + STEED) outside RISK | |
| 5 | LINK | |
| Connect four types of waterfowl in Kakadu (4) | waterfowL IN Kakadu | |
| 7 | UNEATEN | |
| University put to rights is not taken in (7) | U + NEATEN | |
| 8 | EYESHADE | |
| Members of progressive Yes had enjoyed peak? (8) | progressivE YES HAD Enjoyed | |
| 11 | WELL-APPOINTED | |
| Round tip, one formed in weld, is expertly set up (4-9) | [LAP + (anagram of TIP ONE)] inside WELD | |
| 14 | FLYCATCHER | |
| Bird left field for one (10) | Double Definition | |
| 17 | DEAD LOSS | |
| Useless person loaded wrong vessel! (4,4) | Anagram of LOADED + SS | |
| 20 | PLOTTER | |
| Crafty person acquiring large drawing machine (7) | POTTER outside L | |
| 22 | ELUSIVE | |
| The Spanish American I have contracted is difficult to describe (7) | EL + US + IVE | |
| 23 | DEFEAT | |
| Crush feed shifted by a tractor initially (6) | Anagram of FEED + A + (T)ractor | |
| 26 | OPEN | |
| One’s front enclosure is generally accessible (4) | (O)ne + PEN |
