| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | POSTLUDE | |
| Voluntary guard’s location ahead of arranged duel (8) | POST + anagram of DUEL | |
| 5 | CHOSEN | |
| Tube put in empty can is picked out? (6) | HOSE inside C(a)N | |
| 9 | THOUGHT | |
| Mental activity may be all the same with time (7) | THOUGH + T | |
| 10 | TALKING | |
| Head of Linguistics involved in delightful conversation (7) | (L)INGUISTICS inside TAKING | |
| 11 | TAPESTRIES | |
| Needlework samples shown at end of videos (10) | TRIES after TAPES | |
| 12 | BUST | |
| Work of art is broken (4) | Double Definition | |
| 14 | OSTRACISM | |
| Replacement of actors is mass exclusion (9) | Anagram of ACTORS + IS + M | |
| 16 | SEAL | |
| Ocean mammal ultimately? (4) | SEA + MAMMA(L) | |
| 18 | FINE | |
| Suitable punishment for doing something wrong (4) | Double Definition | |
| 19 | AD NAUSEAM | |
| Genetic material identified in gold layer time after time (2,7) | DNA inside AU + SEAM | |
| 21 | UNDO | |
| Open combined sections of playground only (4) | playgroUND Only | |
| 22 | DISCIPLINE | |
| Check record with one piano track (10) | DISC + I + P + LINE | |
| 25 | HEATHEN | |
| Irreligious head almost terminated at a later date (7) | (HEA)D + THEN | |
| 26 | EDIFIES | |
| Instructs journalist in case that is starting to surface (7) | ED + IF + IE + (S)URFACE | |
| 27 | DREAMY | |
| Wonderful doctor may be taking surgery without bookings initially (6) | DR + [anagram of MAY BE minus (B)OOKINGS] | |
| 28 | BRANCHED | |
| Area of garden enclosing large farm is spread out (8) | BED outside RANCH | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | PETITION | |
| Lowly worker, taking it around twice, signed request (8) | PEON outside (IT reversed twice) | |
| 2 | SLOOP | |
| Craft shop’s opening collective up (5) | (S)HOP + (POOL reversed) | |
| 3 | LEGISLATED | |
| Section, one heavily criticised, made laws (10) | LEG + I + SLATED | |
| 4 | DETERMINATION | |
| Prevent one country following presidium’s final ruling (13) | DETER + [(I + NATION) after PRESIDIU(M)] | |
| 6 | HALT | |
| Walk unsteadily to stop (4) | Double Definition | |
| 7 | STIPULATE | |
| Lay down fresh tulips at base of gravestone (9) | Anagram of TULIPS + AT + GRAVESTON(E) | |
| 8 | NEGATE | |
| Neutralise agent tortured by enemy at the front (6) | Anagram of AGENT + (E)NEMY | |
| 10 | THERMONUCLEAR | |
| The column replaced in set up involving atomic fusion (13) | THE + (anagram of COLUMN inside REAR) | |
| 13 | ASSUMPTION | |
| Game official turned it on following dope seizure (10) | (UMP + IT reversed + ON) after ASS | |
| 15 | THIRD BASE | |
| Bids are greatly varied in the diamond area (5,4) | Anagram of (BIDS AR)E inside THE | |
| 17 | IMMERSED | |
| Essential elements of slimmer’s education should be absorbed (8) | slIMMERS Education | |
| 20 | PUSHED | |
| Backed up in front of storage unit in a hurry (6) | UP reversed + SHED | |
| 23 | IRISH | |
| Hippie originally behind Flower People (5) | (H)IPPIE after IRIS | |
| 24 | SHAM | |
| Fraud has adversely impacted millions (4) | Anagram of HAS + M |
