| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | FOREFINGER | |
| Loud foreigner given a juggling pointer (10) | F + anagram of FOREIGNER | |
| 6 | WASP | |
| Stinger was first to pounce (4) | WAS + (P)ounce | |
| 10 | ADD-ON | |
| It’s optional and not normally separated by function (3-2) | Anagram of AND outside DO | |
| 11 | METHADONE | |
| Connected one outside had treatment for drug addiction (9) | (MET + ONE) outside HAD | |
| 12 | THREAD | |
| Only two of them browsed part of an internet discussion (6) | (TH)em + READ | |
| 13 | TRAINEES | |
| Elders, say, accepting a fashionable teacher’s charges (8) | TREES outside (A + IN) | |
| 14 | CHALET | |
| Short fellow rented small house (6) | (CHA)p + LET | |
| 16 | CLOTHES | |
| He is after dope and gear (7) | HES after CLOT | |
| 17 | CONTEST | |
| One locked up an exam question (7) | CON + TEST | |
| 19 | CLUTCH | |
| Bag for eggs (6) | Double Definition | |
| 22 | REDOLENT | |
| Perfumed letter’s due about a beneficial amount (8) | RENT outside DOLE | |
| 23 | USURER | |
| Members of bureau sure resented moneylender (6) | bureaU SURE Resented | |
| 26 | MINUSCULE | |
| Lower-case subtraction indicator used by cryptic clue (9) | MINUS + anagram of CLUE | |
| 27 | ON ICE | |
| Waiting rooms at the centre swell (2,3) | ro(O)ms + NICE | |
| 28 | REEK | |
| Smell water running down face (4) | (C)REEK | |
| 29 | CLEANED OUT | |
| Authority, concealing a need improperly, is broke (7,3) | CLOUT outside anagram of A NEED | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | FRANTIC | |
| Final of tournament, one held in old European capital, is out of control (7) | [tournamen(T) + I] inside FRANC | |
| 2 | RADAR | |
| Draw near, somehow bypassing new location finder (5) | Anagram of DRAW NEAR minus NEW | |
| 3 | FUNDAMENTALIST | |
| Strict, amusing lady, not heartless, people wanted for events? (14) | FUN + DAME + N(o)T + ALIST | |
| 4 | NAME | |
| Call retired fellow before heading to England (4) | MAN reversed + (E)ngland | |
| 5 | ENTERAL | |
| Gain access to a liver primarily by way of intestine (7) | ENTER + A + (L)iver | |
| 7 | ATONEMENT | |
| Redemption one male found in a temporary shelter (9) | (ONE + M) inside (A + TENT) | |
| 8 | PLEASE | |
| Make happy place easily? (6) | PL + EASE (“easily” – with ease) | |
| 9 | RADIO TELESCOPE | |
| High-powered receiver activated coils operated by energy (5,9) | Anagram of COILS OPERATED + E | |
| 15 | AVOIDANCE | |
| A spokesperson shifting around and strangely turning away (9) | (A + VOICE) outside anagram of AND | |
| 16 | CUT | |
| Reduction is appealing to a large extent (3) | (CUT)e | |
| 18 | SENSUAL | |
| Representation of sun in stamp is not intellectual or spiritual? (7) | Anagram of SUN inside SEAL | |
| 20 | HARVEST | |
| Rich people checking right time to gather (7) | HAVES outside R + T | |
| 21 | PRIMER | |
| Elementary book is a little explosive (6) | Double Definition | |
| 24 | RHINO | |
| One sporting unusual horn? (5) | I inside anagram of HORN | |
| 25 | SEGA | |
| Game designer isolated section of Japanese garden (4) | japaneSE GArden |
