| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | FAST BOWLER | |
| One who’s quick to stay away from food left in a shady enclosure (4,6) | FAST + (L inside BOWER) | |
| 6 | ACTS | |
| Cancel announced routines (4) | Sounds like AXE | |
| 10 | SMILE ON | |
| Show favour to son travelling across a great distance (5,2) | SON outside MILE | |
| 11 | TWIRLER | |
| Drunken writer found in possession of large revolver (7) | Anagram of WRITER outside L | |
| 12 | FIRESTORM | |
| Breather operated initially in strong blaze (9) | [REST + (O)perated] insoide FIRM | |
| 13 | CLEAN | |
| Pure energy harnessed by family group (5) | E inside CLAN | |
| 14 | REPORT | |
| Work for a newspaper on computer interface (6) | RE + PORT | |
| 16 | STRINGY | |
| Tough band gathered in part of farm (7) | RING inside STY | |
| 17 | LIE | |
| Outsider not bound by an untruthful statement (3) | a)LIE(n | |
| 19 | DINGBAT | |
| Eccentric bandit scattered around 1000 dollars (7) | Anagram of BANDIT outside G | |
| 20 | ABSEIL | |
| Base organised unharnessed, wild vertical descent? (6) | Anagram of BASE + w)IL(d | |
| 23 | HIT ON | |
| Unexpectedly discover it in sweetheart’s possession (3,2) | IT inside HON | |
| 24 | DINNER SET | |
| Resident excited about last part of dawn service (6,3) | Anagram of RESIDENT outside daw(N) | |
| 26 | TEARFUL | |
| Tense and lengthy rebuke is harrowing (7) | T + EARFUL | |
| 27 | IRKSOME | |
| One reformed smoker is disagreeable (7) | I + anagram of SMOKER | |
| 28 | PALM | |
| Friend married one giving up dates (4) | PAL + M | |
| 29 | APPEARANCE | |
| Soft legume worked planted in great aspect (10) | (P + PEA + RAN) inside ACE | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | FISH-FARM | |
| Fine accepted by firm has rocked primary producer (4-4) | F inside anagram of FIRM HAS | |
| 2 | SKIER | |
| Lodge resident very quietly slipped away from one in charge (5) | SKIPPER minus PP | |
| 3 | BEEF STROGANOFF | |
| Forget beans cooked with bad meat dish (4,10) | Anagram of FORGET BEANS + OFF | |
| 4 | WANTON | |
| Pale colour mostly pointless (6) | ‘WAN + (TON)e | |
| 5 | ESTIMATE | |
| Get the measure of one male occupying property (8) | (I + M) inside ESTATE | |
| 7 | COLLEAGUE | |
| Workmate is separated from collies with fever (9) | COLL(i)E(s) + AGUE | |
| 8 | SHRINE | |
| End to prayer in Polish place of worship (6) | praye(R) inside SHINE | |
| 9 | CIRCUIT BREAKER | |
| Confused brickie cut rear switch (7,7) | Anagram of BRICKIE CUT REAR | |
| 15 | PAINTBALL | |
| Missile used in war games ain’t coated in lead completely (9) | (AINT inside PB) + ALL | |
| 16 | SIT | |
| Model is running over time (3) | IS reversed + T | |
| 17 | LANDSLIP | |
| Groundbreaking action plans I’d modified after laughing initially (8) | Anagram of PLANS ID outside (L)aughing | |
| 18 | ALL THERE | |
| Learners entering at this place must be alert (3,5) | (LL inside AT) + HERE | |
| 21 | CHAT UP | |
| Flirt with bowler, say, taking part in sporting contest (4,2) | HAT inside CUP | |
| 22 | IN LINE | |
| Slope down front side of castle is straight (2,4) | INCLINE minus (C)astle | |
| 25 | SCORN | |
| Look down on small growth of skin (5) | S + CORN |
