| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BRAINBOX | |
| Clever person’s packaged ladies underwear? (8) | BRA IN BOX | |
| 5 | DRAPES | |
| Drive copies screens in Windows (6) | DR + APES | |
| 10 | ALLOW | |
| Permit a system for hanging people without any limitations (5) | g)ALLOW(s | |
| 11 | TROUNCING | |
| Beating in court rocked half of gang (9) | Anagram of IN COURT + NG | |
| 12 & 28dn |
DEVONSHIRE TEA | |
| Meat eater is teased about hot, light meal (10,3) | DEVON + (anagram of EATER IS outside H) | |
| 14 | MAKE | |
| Appoint mother chief before the end (4) | MA + KE(y | |
| 16 | ERRATUM | |
| Mistake literally involved rare stomach contraction (7) | Anagram of RARE + TUM | |
| 17 | OPUSES | |
| Spouse remixed pieces of music (6) | Anagram of SPOUSE | |
| 19 | SCHEME | |
| Seem distracted about church’s proposal (6) | Anagram of SEEM outside CH | |
| 21 | DOTES ON | |
| Adores party number by music group with backing (5,2) | DO + (NO + SET) reversed | |
| 24 | HART | |
| Start to hunt cunning male deer (4) | H + ART | |
| 25 | SHORT-RANGE | |
| Dismantled great horns with limited scope (5-5) | Anagram of GREAT HORNS | |
| 27 | COAGULANT | |
| Company computer system identified, in a stomach, a clotting agent (9) | CO + (LAN inside A GUT) | |
| 29 & 6dn |
SPLIT RING | |
| Key holder, for example, is illuminated in vault (5,4) | LIT inside SPRING | |
| 30 | AILING | |
| Travelling by yacht down south and not doing very well (6) | s)AILING | |
| 31 | PASSED IN | |
| Old-fashioned racket is not sold at auction (6,2) | PASSE + DIN | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | BRAND-NEW | |
| Fresh cereal Wendy just about finished up (5-3) | BRAN + WEND(y) reversed | |
| 2 | ALL OVER | |
| Heart of brutalised lover is sewn up (3,4) | brut(AL)ised + LOVER | |
| 3 | NOW AND THEN | |
| Potter’s tool kept inside, not used on layer sometimes (3,3,4) | WAND inside NOT + HEN | |
| 4 | See 22-down | |
| 6 | See 29-across | |
| 7 | PLICATE | |
| Folded sheet over one child’s head (7) | PLATE outside (I + C) | |
| 8 | SAGGER | |
| Dilapidated garage’s not fitted with a clay box in which pottery is packed for baking (6) | Anagram of GARAGES minus A | |
| 9 | COURT ORDER | |
| Judicial writ disrupted record tour (5,5) | Anagram of RECORD TOUR | |
| 13 | HAMMERHEAD | |
| Heavy hitter, an amateur boxer, heard me out of context (10) | HAM + anagram of HEARD ME | |
| 15 | GUITARISTS | |
| Artist is upset after guy cut short musicians (10) | Anagram of ARTIST IS after GU(y | |
| 18 | UNBEATEN | |
| Bun, chopped up and consumed, is second to none (8) | Anagram of BUN + EATEN | |
| 20 | CURE-ALL | |
| Copper left, going after authentic wonder drug (4-3) | CU + (L after REAL) | |
| 22 & 4dn |
SINGLED OUT | |
| Wickedness was first detected in disease and treated differently (7,3) | SIN + (LED inside GOUT) | |
| 23 | CHA-CHA | |
| Dance fellow almost completed more than once (3-3) | CHA(p times two | |
| 26 | QUIN | |
| One in five look sideways endlessly? (4) | s)QUIN(t | |
| 28 | See 12-across |
