| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | ANGUISH | |
| An outburst admitting one’s suffering (7) | (AN + GUSH) outside I | |
| 5 | TYPISTS | |
| Psychiatrist, giving up chair, distracted key workers (7) | Anagram of PSYCHIATRIST minus CHAIR | |
| 9 | EXACT | |
| Court, going after hacker, sent back claim (5) | CT after (AXE reversed) | |
| 10 | BRASS BAND | |
| Musical group’s bass varied in quality (5,4) | Anagram of BASS inside BRAND | |
| 11 | AMBERGRIS | |
| A male oceanic traveller is after right whale’s discharge (9) | A + M + BERG + (IS after R) | |
| 12 | DIVE | |
| Joint distributed short version of video (4) | Anagram of (VIDE)o | |
| 14 | DARWIN | |
| Ward not treated properly in a tropical place (6) | Anagram of WARD + IN | |
| 15 | PERTH | |
| Lively hotel’s location in the west (5) | PERT + H | |
| 16 | CUT | |
| Cricket shot is attractive for the most part (3) | (CUT)e | |
| 18 | SIENA | |
| Displaced aliens overlooking large city in Tuscany (5) | Anagram of ALIENS minus L | |
| 19 | LEAPER | |
| Outcast providing shelter for a bounder (6) | LEPER outside A | |
| 23 | AMEX | |
| Plastic part of webcam exploded (4) | webcAM EXploded | |
| 24 | BREATHERS | |
| Swimmers, floating around, are lacking a number of snorkels, for example (9) | BATHERS outside (ARE minus A) | |
| 26 | MELBOURNE | |
| One rumble damaged GP’s Australian home (9) | Anagram of ONE RUMBLE | |
| 27 | OPERA | |
| Section in media report backed a musical performance (5) | mediA REPOrt reversed | |
| 28 | NIRVANA | |
| Transporter in Iran mismanaged a delightful place (7) | VAN inside anagram of IRAN | |
| 29 | MODISTE | |
| Fashionable dressmaker and poet housed by the writer (7) | ODIST inside ME | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | ADELAIDE | |
| City of churches guided a returning embassy worker (8) | (LED + A) reversed + AIDE | |
| 2 | GRABBER | |
| Avaricious person is right into gossip (7) | R inside GABBER | |
| 3 | INTERMIXED | |
| Changed index containing expression, one jumbled up (10) | Anagram of INDEX outside (TERM + I) | |
| 4 | HOBART | |
| Watering hole located in sultry southern city (6) | BAR inside HOT | |
| 5 | TRANSEPT | |
| Ten parts formed wing of a cruciform church (8) | Anagram of TEN PARTS | |
| 6 | PAST | |
| Associates of Trump, as tweeted, should be finished? (4) | trumP AS Tweeted | |
| 7 | SLAVISH | |
| Servile person from eastern Europe is hard (7) | SLAV + IS + H | |
| 8 | SYDNEY | |
| Australian capital, say, losing a third ultimately against rise of Japanese currency (6) | SAY minus A + thir(D) + (YEN reversed) | |
| 13 | PRIESTHOOD | |
| Is inquisitive gangster after time in religious order? (10) | PRIES + (HOOD after T) | |
| 16 | CANBERRA | |
| Head to Callion, a barren, unsettled part of Australia (8) | (C)allion + A + anagram of BARREN | |
| 17 | BRISBANE | |
| Animated Barbie’s screening close to garden city in Queensland (8) | Anagram of BARBIES outside garde(N) | |
| 18 | STEALER | |
| One who takes a left during drive (7) | (A + L) inside STEER | |
| 20 | PEERESS | |
| Noble never evenly treated in crowd (7) | n(E)v(E)r inside PRESS | |
| 21 | SALMON | |
| Fish shop extended by metres (6) | M inside SALON | |
| 22 | REDEEM | |
| Buy back diamonds owned by emeer abroad (6) | D inside anagram of EMEER | |
| 25 | CODA | |
| Company recalled commercial’s last piece of music (4) | CO + (AD reversed) |
