| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | RUBBER | |
| Match material with some flexibility (6) | Double Definition | |
| 5 | ENORMITY | |
| Hatred fuelled by our heartless act of wickedness? (8) | ENMITY outside O(u)R | |
| 9 | AFTERBIRTH | |
| Most of tribe, held back by father, resolved issue related to delivery (10) | TRIB(e) reversed inside anagram of FATHER | |
| 10 | DEAD | |
| Parent snorting drug is no longer with us (4) | DAD outside E | |
| 11 | STARTLER | |
| Wingless fly found in soup maybe – what a shocker! (8) | f)L(y inside STARTER | |
| 12 | RECAST | |
| Give an actor a different role on new production of Cats (6) | RE + anagram of CATS | |
| 13 | GANDHI | |
| Old Indian leader and leader of Hindus embraced by American soldier (6) | (AND + H) inside GI | |
| 15 | PARALLEL | |
| Everyone should be in trim before end of final match (8) | ALL inside PARE + L | |
| 17 | COLD SNAP | |
| Old vessels returned after start of cyclonic period of wintry weather (4,4) | (OLD + PANS reversed) after C | |
| 20 | CHOOSE | |
| Pick out carbon ring wedged in flexible pipe (6) | C + (O inside HOSE) | |
| 22 | RAISER | |
| Lifter is restricted by back bending the wrong way (6) | IS inside REAR reversed | |
| 24 | IDENTIFY | |
| Name, one connected with depression in case before day’s end (8) | I + DENT + IF + Y | |
| 26 | DIVA | |
| Recalled enthusiastic star of opera (4) | AVID reversed | |
| 27 | DOTTED LINE | |
| Contractors may be asked to sign on here? (6,4) | Cryptic Definition | |
| 28 | INFRARED | |
| Find moulded casing for uncommon radiation (8) | Anagram of FIND outside RARE | |
| 29 | ROYALS | |
| Court officials got banned from changing astrology (6) | Anagram of ASTROLOGY minus GOT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 2 | UNFIT | |
| Incompetent group of soldiers infiltrated by force (5) | F inside UNIT | |
| 3 | BLEARED | |
| Snapshot of born leader, after developing, is blurred (7) | B + anagram of LEADER | |
| 4 | REBELLION | |
| Beer shaken up by large man of great strength is rising (9) | Anagram of BEER + L + LION | |
| 5 | EARDROP | |
| Doctor, part of the way though opera, fiddled with jewellery (7) | DR inside anagram of OPERA | |
| 6 | OTHER | |
| Parent with head shaved is different (5) | (m)OTHER | |
| 7 | MEDICAL | |
| Cold checked in ordinary examination carried out by a doctor (7) | C inside MEDIAL | |
| 8 | TRANSFERS | |
| Changes over two poles fixed in the middle of dodgy rafters (9) | NS inside anagram of RAFTERS | |
| 14 | ADORATION | |
| Honour a party with a fixed allowance (9) | A + DO + RATION | |
| 16 | RACKETEER | |
| Criminal’s key, almost pocketed by drunken caterer (9) | Anagram of CATERER outside KE(y) | |
| 18 | DESPAIR | |
| Give up desk not completely put together (7) | DES(k) + PAIR | |
| 19 | POINTED | |
| Crook in depot is keen (7) | Anagram of IN DEPOT | |
| 21 | OUTPLAY | |
| Do better than head of personnel in expenditure (7) | P inside OUTLAY | |
| 23 | RADAR | |
| Draw near, somehow bypassing new location finder (5) | Anagram of DRAW NEAR minus NEW | |
| 25 | FINAL | |
| Flipper attached to a line’s end (5) | FIN + A + L |
