| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SELLS SHORT | |
| Underestimates value of new shells placed in order (5,5) | Anagram of SHELLS inside SORT | |
| 6 | LOSS | |
| Cost expensively-produced magazine with reduced margins (4) | g)LOSS(y | |
| 9 | ACTOR | |
| Animated cartoon missing out on person with role-playing experience (5) | Anagram of CARTOON minus ON | |
| 10 | PATRONAGE | |
| Support is perfectly right regarding time in history (9) | PAT + R + ON+ AGE | |
| 12 | TRIFECTA | |
| Betting system’s current act amended after time (8) | (RIFE + anagram of ACT) after T | |
| 13 | STRIKE | |
| Hit small kid’s treadly (6) | S + TRIKE | |
| 15 | FLEET | |
| Quick escape by convict ultimately (5) | FLEE + convic(T) | |
| 16 | EMIGRATE | |
| A leader from Turkiye in regime arranged move abroad (8) | [A + (T)urkiye] inside anagram of REGIME | |
| 18 | THIEVING | |
| Act involving evil to a great extent? (8) | THING outside (EVI)l | |
| 20 | OFTEN | |
| Foot is put in one in error regularly (5) | FT inside anagram of ONE | |
| 23 | AERATE | |
| Inflate end of tube in a class (6) | tub(E) inside (A + RATE) | |
| 24 | FRAGRANT | |
| Sweet old lady accepted by small fraternity (8) | GRAN inside FRAT | |
| 26 | STONE-COLD | |
| Character in lecture is severely lacking in warmth (5-4) | TONE inside SCOLD | |
| 27 | LANCE | |
| Clean infected open wound to allow drainage (5) | Anagram of CLEAN | |
| 28 | SANG | |
| A number of girls, angels, put on a show (4) | girlS ANGels | |
| 29 | MEMORANDUM | |
| Family member receiving broadcast of a modern form of communication (10) | MUM outside anagram of A MODERN | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | START OFF | |
| Employees checking right to go ahead (5,3) | STAFF outside (R + TO) | |
| 2 | LATTICE | |
| Trellis at back of unit covered in insects (7) | [AT + uni(T)] inside LICE | |
| 3 | STREET THEATRE | |
| Play outside and test earth scattered around tree (6,7) | Anagram of TEST EARTH outside TREE | |
| 4 | HYPOTHESIS | |
| Needle family member about the proposition (10) | (HYPO + SIS) outside THE | |
| 5 | ROTS | |
| Animal lair, free of rodents, falls apart (4) | RODENTS minus DEN | |
| 7 | ON A DIET | |
| Do eat in irregularly, eating particular foods (2,1,4) | Anagram of DO EAT IN | |
| 8 | SPEWED | |
| Woman at the front in expedition was sick (6) | (W)oman inside SPEED | |
| 11 | OUTER MONGOLIA | |
| University term planned inside igloo transformed a really remote location (5,8) | (U + TERM + ON) inside anagram of IGLOO + A | |
| 14 | DIDGERIDOO | |
| Instrument finished German identification with nothing duplicated (10) | DID + GER + ID + OO | |
| 17 | ON-STREAM | |
| Shifted tons, a large quantity of paper, in production (2-6) | Anagram of TONS + REAM | |
| 19 | HARPOON | |
| US talk-show host turned on whale killer (7) | OPRAH reversed + ON | |
| 21 | TRAINED | |
| Conditioned cadet finally fell down (7) | cade(T) + RAINED | |
| 22 | RAMSES | |
| Egyptian king hits hard emperors on both sides (6) | RAMS + (E)mperor(S) | |
| 25 | HOLE | |
| Digger used on the perimeter of large excavation (4) | HOE outside L |
