| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CUT A DASH | |
| Such data manipulated to make a striking impression (3,1,4) | Anagram of SUCH DATA | |
| 5 | CHAD | |
| Combined group in church addressed African nation (4) | churCH ADdressed | |
| 8 | DRIVERS | |
| Clubs close to polluted waterways (7) | pollute(D) + RIVERS | |
| 14 | WHOOP | |
| Loud cry doctor on TV produced before operation (5) | WHO + OP | |
| 15 | LEARNER | |
| Apprentice left profitable enterprise (7) | L + EARNER | |
| 16 | ASTRODOME | |
| Enclosed sports centre, for instance, staff recognised in book (9) | AS + (ROD inside TOME) | |
| 17 | IMPASTO | |
| I am after origin of old painting (7) | IM + PAST + (O)ld | |
| 18 | BANDITS | |
| Thieves by the way involved in scraps (7) | AND inside BITS | |
| 19 | CUSTARD | |
| Big name tucked into processed food and dessert (7) | STAR inside CUD | |
| 20 | LOCATE | |
| Track down members of bloc at embassy (6) | bLOC AT Embassy | |
| 22 | DEGENERATE | |
| Impure form of energy green represented in meeting? (10) | (E + anagram of GREEN) inside DATE | |
| 23 | SPIKE | |
| Skewer an ear of corn (5) | Double Definition | |
| 24 | PARALYSE | |
| A player’s repositioned and put out of action (8) | Anagram of A PLAYERS | |
| 26 | LEASES | |
| Sale changed focus of domestic rental agreements (6) | Anagram of SALE + dom(ES)tic | |
| 28 | CAME TO | |
| Team reassigned in company recovered (4,2) | Anagram of TEAM inside CO | |
| 31 | MEAT PIE | |
| MasterChef’s original cooked pate that is one of Australia’s favourite foods (4,3) | (M)asterchef + anagram of PATE + IE | |
| 32 | FETED | |
| Honoured leader of Thailand during plentiful meal (5) | (T)hailand inside FEED | |
| 34 | LAMINATE | |
| Cover a minister put in at the last second (8) | (A + MIN) inside LATE | |
| 37 | MEA CULPA | |
| Clam up wrongly about each admission of guilt (3,5) | Anagram of CLAM UP outside EA | |
| 39 | DUMMY | |
| Wet soft earth turned over by my open hand (5) | MUD reversed + MY | |
| 40 | ROSTRUM | |
| Platform shoes primarily handled by cobblers? Strange (7) | (S)hoes inside ROT + RUM | |
| 43 | RIBBON | |
| Tease bishop about decorative material (6) | RIB + B + ON | |
| 45 | RISING | |
| Lifting is supported in wrestling arena (6) | IS inside RING | |
| 47 | CHEERING | |
| A great deal of audacity demonstrated by band is encouraging (8) | (CHEE)k + RING | |
| 49 | GORGE | |
| Leave wild party, missing out on a feast (5) | GO + (RAGE minus A) | |
| 50 | ORCHESTRAS | |
| They create music or unusual art in musical (10) | OR + (anagram of ART inside CHESS) | |
| 53 | SPARTA | |
| Greek city’s craftsmanship on display in spring (6) | ART inside SPA | |
| 56 | AROUSED | |
| Excited baron, out of bounds, took drugs? (7) | b)ARO(n + USED | |
| 58 | UPLOADS | |
| Data transfers Middle Eastern political group used with advantage in America (7) | (PLO + AD) inside US | |
| 59 | RIPOSTE | |
| Right that is reinforced by standard response (7) | (R + IE) outside POST | |
| 61 | IN EARNEST | |
| Close bird sanctuary after one? Seriously! (2,7) | (NEAR + NEST) after I | |
| 62 | AT ONE GO | |
| A hundred runs, for example, scored before duck in a single effort (2,3,2) | A + TON + EG + O | |
| 63 | OBAMA | |
| Employees committed to job amazed former leader? (5) | jOB AMAzed | |
| 64 | MUSTERS | |
| Marshals rest uneasily after problem with retirement (7) | Anagram of REST after SUM reversed | |
| 65 | RIDE | |
| Drive and walk down street (4) | STRIDE minus ST | |
| 66 | PARAKEET | |
| A gardening tool bitten by pet bird (8) | (A + RAKE) inside PET | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | COWGIRL | |
| Western woman returned outfit wearing hood (7) | RIG reversed inside COWL | |
| 2 | TROOP | |
| Officer at the start in Australian case set up military unit (5) | (O)fficer inside PORT reversed | |
| 3 | DEPOSIT SLIP | |
| Form of banking overseas, one used in department by mistake (7,4) | (OS + I) inside DEPT + SLIP | |
| 4 | SOLD ON | |
| Antique owned by family member is exchanged for money (4,2) | OLD inside SON | |
| 6 | HARDINESS | |
| Has taken over opening of royal feasts with resolution (9) | HAS outside [(R)oyal + DINES] | |
| 7 | DEAD SEA | |
| A deed’s amended in connection with a large expanse of saltwater (4,3) | Anagram of A DEEDS + A | |
| 8 | DETACHED | |
| Cold detective felt pain (8) | DET + ACHED | |
| 9 | ICONS | |
| Pictures are not needed in new scenario (5) | Anagram of SCENARIO minus ARE | |
| 10 | EVOCATIVE | |
| Haunting place that’s sheltered upset natives inside borders? (9) | COVE reversed + n(ATIVE)s | |
| 11 | SPEED DEMON | |
| Habitually fast driver needs moped completely rebuilt (5,5) | Anagram of NEEDS MOPED | |
| 12 | MARBLE | |
| Broken alarm bell not containing all hard material (6) | Anagram of ALARM BELL minus ALL | |
| 13 | UNINTERESTED | |
| Indifferent university reconfigured Net ready to work (12) | UNI + anagram of NET + RESTED | |
| 21 | CORSAGE | |
| Flowers, bundled together, droop in the centre (7) | SAG inside CORE | |
| 23 | SPAIN | |
| Meat that’s processed largely in a European country (5) | (SPA)m + IN | |
| 24 | POMP | |
| Ostentation and power behind one from the old country (4) | P after POM | |
| 25 | SEEMLY | |
| See one unemployed in Manly that’s decent? (6) | SEE + (MANLY minus AN) | |
| 27 | SPLAYD | |
| Consumer’s tool is removed from different displays (6) | Anagram of DISPLAYS minus IS | |
| 29 | AFFAIR | |
| A fine gathering of producers to promote business activity (6) | A + F + FAIR | |
| 30 | SMIRCH | |
| Dirty edges fixed up next to church (6) | RIMS reversed + CH | |
| 33 | DEMONSTRATOR | |
| Guitar owned by master or exhibitionist (12) | STRAT inside (DEMON + OR) | |
| 35 | TERRIER | |
| Keen person’s lapse inside bank (7) | ERR inside TIER | |
| 36 | SMUG | |
| Superior adhesives turned up (4) | GUMS reversed | |
| 38 | CHORE | |
| Routine task that’s hard in essence (5) | H inside CORE | |
| 41 | SLEEP APNOEA | |
| Sane people worked out a problem for some retired people (5,6) | Anagram of SANE PEOPLE + A | |
| 42 | PRAGMATISM | |
| Treated stigma carried by pusher with common sense (10) | Anagram of STIGMA inside PRAM | |
| 44 | BURROWERS | |
| They undermine prickly case linked to debtors (9) | BURR + OWERS | |
| 46 | STEELYARD | |
| Restyled a replaced weighing machine (9) | Anagram of RESTYLED A | |
| 48 | BOLDNESS | |
| Large object held back by supervisor is brass (8) | (L + END reversed) inside BOSS | |
| 51 | CLUTTER | |
| Mess left in small sailing vessel (7) | L inside CUTTER | |
| 52 | ANSWER | |
| Acknowledge a state centre in Canterbury (6) | A + NSW + cant(ER)bury | |
| 54 | ABEYANT | |
| Inactive church building abandoned by bishop and social worker (7) | ABBEY minus B + ANT | |
| 55 | AREOLA | |
| Region around a nipple ring, left covered with patch (6) | (O + L) inside AREA | |
| 57 | SERVE | |
| Dish up some appetiser (vegetarian) (5) | apperiSER VEgetarian | |
| 60 | STAGE | |
| Arrange for men only on drugs (5) | STAG + E |
