| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CHAMBER | |
| Light colour painted at far end of church room (7) | AMBER after CH | |
| 5 | POTATO | |
| Vegetable matter kept in depot at orchard (6) | dePOT AT Orchard | |
| 9 | OWING | |
| Outstanding work done by crew down river (5) | ROWING minus R | |
| 10 | WHOLESOME | |
| Innocent breaches admitted by women mostly (9) | HOLES inside (WOME)n | |
| 11 | DIAL TONE | |
| Caller might hear this voice in the middle of feast (4,4) | ALTO inside DINE | |
| 12 | TOO BAD | |
| Outside broadcast handled by contemptible person is regrettable (3,3) | OB inside TOAD | |
| 14 | CHEF | |
| Main supplier’s heartless boss? (4) | CH(i)EF | |
| 15 | BLOCKHEAD | |
| Criminal fencing security device? He is a stupid person (9) | BAD outside (LOCK + HE) | |
| 17 | ANCHORAGE | |
| An enclosure containing last lot of scotch or port (9) | (AN + CAGE) outside [scotc(H) + OR] | |
| 18 | CHIP | |
| Clubs in a golf shot (4) | C + HIP | |
| 20 | STREAM | |
| State of water restricting river’s flow (6) | STEAM outside R | |
| 21 | GET ABOUT | |
| Move around broken gate before fight (3,5) | Anagram of GATE + BOUT | |
| 24 | FOOD COURT | |
| Fine clubs located in redeveloped outdoor area that caters for consumers (4,5) | F + (C inside anagram of OUTDOOR) | |
| 25 | SEINE | |
| Find out about popular European flower (5) | SEE outside IN | |
| 26 | ENTRAP | |
| Mate just about pulled back catch (6) | (PARTNE)r reversed | |
| 27 | REFUGEE | |
| Displaced person on drug paying no attention to doctor in charge (7) | RE +(DRUG minus DR) inside FEE | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CROWD | |
| Assembly line packed in music collection (5) | ROW inside CD | |
| 2 | ANIMATED CARTOON | |
| NIDA actor upset about mate on children’s TV (8,7) | Anagram of NIDA ACTOR outside MATE + ON | |
| 3 | BIGOTS | |
| Prejudiced people operate in small sections (6) | GO inside BITS | |
| 4 | ROWING BOAT | |
| Just shoot snake in degenerate’s small vessel (6,4) | (WING + BOA) inside ROT | |
| 5 | PLOT | |
| Great deal behind power scheme (4) | LOT after P | |
| 6 | THE WORKS | |
| How treks prepared with everything possible (3,5) | Anagram of HOW TREKS | |
| 7 | TROUBLESHOOTING | |
| Neighbour’s tool busted after short time fixing problems (15) | Anagram of NEIGHBOURS TOOL after T | |
| 8 | HEADED UP | |
| Strange dude, in beat-up car, managed (6,2) | Anagram of DUDE inside HEAP | |
| 13 | HONEY-EATER | |
| Survey taken by another confused Australian flyer (5-5) | EYE inside anagram of ANOTHER | |
| 14 | CLASSIFY | |
| Categorise vessel if buried in mud (8) | (SS + IF) inside CLAY | |
| 16 | ROMANCER | |
| Writer of “Love Story”, or “Carmen Reimagined” (8) | Anagram of OR CARMEN | |
| 19 | MASSIF | |
| Service provided for central mountain assembly (6) | MASS + IF | |
| 22 | THEBE | |
| The “live” satellite of Jupiter (5) | THE + BE | |
| 23 | GULP | |
| Knock back promotion in recession (4) | PLUG reversed |
