Please see separate post for this week’s cryptic comment.
| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SUSTAINING | |
| Work of a colourist outside America is holding up (10) | STAINING outside US | |
| 6 | AREA | |
| Art not fully funded by each territory (4) | (AR)T + EA | |
| 10 | A-TEAM | |
| The best people had a meal in the morning (1-4) | ATE + AM | |
| 11 | GRAVEYARD | |
| Weighty cart taken around burial site (9) | GRAVE + (DRAY reversed) | |
| 12 | FRANCE | |
| Country cafe ran poorly without assistance initially (6) | Anagram of CAFE RAN minus (A)SSISTANCE | |
| 13 | EREMITE | |
| Solitary transfer restricted by limitations in Europe (7) | REMIT inside (E)UROP(E) | |
| 15 | EN DASH | |
| Resolution has changed a punctuation mark (2,4) | END + anagram of HAS | |
| 16 | STEALERS | |
| They take livestock around a corral at the back (8) | STEERS outside [A + CORRA(L)] | |
| 17 | ESCARGOT | |
| Freight in established delicacy (8) | CARGO inside EST | |
| 20 | NIPPON | |
| Pinch page about Japan (6) | NIP + P + ON | |
| 23 | TRUSTEE | |
| Guardian’s sign of deterioration in area of golf (7) | RUST inside TEE | |
| 24 | LOADED | |
| Rich, doddery old dear, giving up right (6) | Anagram of OLD DEAR minus R | |
| 26 | AUTHORING | |
| A washer behind ramshackle hut is doing work (9) | A + (ORING after anagram of HUT) | |
| 27 | IBIZA | |
| One business associated with a Spanish resort (5) | I + BIZ + A | |
| 28 | SIRE | |
| Father is one who complains loudly (4) | Sounds like SIGHER | |
| 29 | DESPONDENT | |
| Centre of majestic pond, formed in hollow, is blue (10) | [MAJ(ES)TIC + POND] inside DENT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SOAK | |
| As reported, a king is a heavy drinker (4) | SO + A + K | |
| 2 | SHEARED | |
| Fleeced sheep are inside farm building (7) | ARE inside SHED | |
| 3 | ADMINISTRATION | |
| A devious mind – it’s helping executive (14) | A + anagram of MIND ITS + RATION | |
| 4 | NAGGER | |
| Person who picks horse backed, for example, by tipster in the end (6) | NAG + (EG reversed) + TIPSTE(R) | |
| 5 | NEATEST | |
| Feast in a cosy environment is most stylish (7) | EAT inside NEST | |
| 7 | REALISE | |
| Appreciate serial rescheduled close to lunchtime (7) | Anagram of SERIAL + LUNCHTIM(E) | |
| 8 | ADDRESSING | |
| Dealing with commercial fertiliser (10) | AD + DRESSING | |
| 9 | GENERALISATION | |
| Sweeping statement, in a lecture originally, is accepted by age group (14) | [A + (L)ECTURE + IS) inside GENERATION | |
| 14 | DESERT RATS | |
| Old soldiers leave stranded major in retreat (6,4) | DESERT + (STAR reversed) | |
| 16 | SET | |
| Centre of authority not supporting a firm (3) | SEAT minus A | |
| 18 | CLUSTER | |
| Author of The Stickler Weekly, perhaps, entertaining street gathering (7) | CLUER outside ST | |
| 19 | ONE-TIME | |
| Old limitations lifted from money before issue turned up (3-4) | M(ONE)Y + (EMIT reversed) | |
| 21 | PRECISE | |
| Accurate record is disclosed in middle of appeal (7) | (REC + IS) inside AP(PE)AL | |
| 22 | CLOG UP | |
| Obstruct record keeper used in competition (4,2) | LOG inside CUP | |
| 25 | BAIT | |
| Provoke one entering club (4) | I inside BAT |
