| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CHAMPERS | |
| They eat and drink (8) | Double Definition | |
| 5 | SAMBAL | |
| Side dish, say, largely served with cooked lamb (6) | (SA)Y + anagram of LAMB | |
| 10 | RATED | |
| Roasted a side of meat marinated in wine (5) | [A + MEA(T)] inside RED | |
| 11 | COAT-STAND | |
| A time specified in quotation and Mac’s support unit, perhaps (4-5) | (A + T) inside COST + AND | |
| 12 | BUNDLE OF NERVES | |
| Very timid, anxious person – bread vendor – feels disturbed (6,2,6) | BUN + anagram of VENDOR FEELS | |
| 14 | LEES | |
| Tall type of male escort returned deposit (4) | MA(L)E + (SEE reversed) | |
| 15 | MUSCULAR | |
| Powerful American cult mostly occupying ruin (8) | [US + (CUL)T] inside MAR | |
| 18 | GEL | |
| Retired member is set (3) | LEG reversed | |
| 19 | UNSHAVEN | |
| Rough experience admitted by converted nuns (8) | HAVE inside anagram of NUNS | |
| 20 | HORN | |
| Butchered rhino doesn’t have one? (4) | Anagram of RHINO minus I | |
| 23 | TARGET PRACTICE | |
| Get price cut by law after sailor’s shooting exercise (6,8) | [GET + (PRICE outside ACT)] after TAR | |
| 26 | DEVELOPED | |
| Adult died after breakdown of deep love (9) | D after anagram of DEEP LOVE | |
| 27 | ROGUE | |
| Mischievous characters filling Irishman’s shoes? (5) | B(ROGUE)S | |
| 28 | ASLANT | |
| A large piece of land in street is off to one side (6) | A + (LAN)D inside ST | |
| 29 | SEASONAL | |
| A child used in plug may be appearing sometimes (8) | (A + SON) inside SEAL | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | CEREBELLUM | |
| Twelve caught insurgent sticking drug trafficker up? (10) | C + REBEL inside (MULE reversed) | |
| 2 | ATTENDEES | |
| They go at rising top tennis player before final (9) | AT + [(SEED + NET) reversed] | |
| 3 | PUDDLE | |
| Small pool’s diameter doubled when enclosed with pipe (6) | DD inside PULE | |
| 4 | RECKON | |
| Count on finishing dilapidated vehicle with front-end missing (6) | ON after W(RECK) | |
| 6 | ABSTRACT | |
| General muscles stretch (8) | ABS + TRACT | |
| 7 | BRAKE | |
| Check a place overgrown with bushes and shrubs (5) | Double Definition | |
| 8 | LADY | |
| Woman and young man marry finally (4) | LAD + MARR(Y) | |
| 9 | PAINFUL | |
| Early missionary carrying in fellow causing distress (7) | PAUL outside (IN + F) | |
| 13 | ORANGE-PEEL | |
| Discarded piece of fruit or waste consumed by good child (6-4) | OR + (PEE inside ANGEL) | |
| 15 | MEN | |
| Employees abbreviated computer list (3) | (MEN)U | |
| 16 | LOOKING ON | |
| Relatives leave with crazy person outside watching (7,2) | (KIN + GO) inside LOON | |
| 17 | PANGOLIN | |
| Scaly ant-eater quietly shuffled along and in (8) | P + anagram of ALONG + IN | |
| 18 | GESTAPO | |
| Police detested perverted tapes seized in function (7) | Anagram of TAPES inside GO | |
| 21 | BRIDGE | |
| Newlywed keeping back to gathering is cross (6) | BRIDE outside GATHERIN(G) | |
| 22 | SCORES | |
| Doctor kicked out of Red Cross wrongly obtains drugs (6) | Anagram of RED CROSS minus DR | |
| 24 | ANVIL | |
| Small bone fragments found in Roman village (5) | romAN VILlage | |
| 25 | IDEA | |
| Plan is not quite perfect (4) | (IDEA)L |
I finally understand 14a. Veeery sneaky, but totally accurate. This one had many of us going. I knew it had to be the l, which fitted with type, but I could not see the relevance of tall until the flash tonight when I saw the height of the letters.
If I really squint, think I can just see 14a…………!!!
Like a high rise in a residential street.
David, please tell me what it is if I am wrong.
Arthur – yes, you’re right. “l” is the tall letter in “male”.