| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DEMOGRAPHY | |
| Market researchers study this sample phone produced in dull color? (10) | DEMO + (PH inside GRAY) | |
| 6 | COS | |
| Salad ingredient’s reduced price (3) | (COS)t | |
| 9 | BEDEVIL | |
| Base, active, repelled trouble (7) | BED + (LIVE reversed) | |
| 10 | MEASURE | |
| Meat trimmed with certain size (7) | (MEA)t + SURE | |
| 11 | TREMULOUS | |
| Timid bird from Australia located primarily during tours abroad (9) | [EMU + (L)OCATED] inside anagram of TOURS | |
| 12 | HET UP | |
| Male sheep is agitated (3,2) | HE + TUP | |
| 13 | NICETY | |
| Sir, lacking in sincerity, mishandled a matter of fine discrimination (6) | Anagram of SINCERITY minus SIR | |
| 15 | GUANACO | |
| Wild llama dung containing a trace of carbon (7) | GUANO outside (A + C) | |
| 16 | DON | |
| Head of family settled a little short (3) | (DON)e | |
| 18 | BENEFIT | |
| Speculation about organisation of fine fund-raiser (7) | BET outside anagram of FINE | |
| 19 | GELATO | |
| It’s set at zero (6) | GEL + AT + O | |
| 21 | MIRTH | |
| Fun orderly “retired” by hospital (5) | TRIM reversed + H | |
| 22 | OUTRIGGER | |
| Core section of tour set off in boat (9) | t(OU)R + TRIGGER | |
| 24 | CANASTA | |
| Call off all but the last part of a stag’s card game (7) | CAN + (ASTA)g | |
| 25 | PRESENT | |
| It’s offered for free here (7) | Double Definition | |
| 26 | HUE | |
| Colour house in an uneven way (3) | (H)o(U)s(E) | |
| 27 | BRANDY SNAP | |
| Make reflection of flower with biscuit (6,4) | BRAND + (PANSY reversed) | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DEBUTANT | |
| New performer manoeuvred tuba in an impressive display (8) | Anagram of TUBA inside DENT | |
| 2 | MIDGE | |
| Grey mounted grey, oddly, with bug (5) | DIM reversed + (G)r(E)y | |
| 3 | GIVE UP THE GHOST | |
| Go and get huge VIP prepared to put on a show (4,2,3,5) | Anagram of GET HUGE VIP + HOST | |
| 4 | ABLOOM | |
| Flowering bushes initially planted behind a tower (6) | [(B)USHES after A] + LOOM | |
| 5 | HOMESPUN | |
| Digger’s joke about maiden is crude (8) | (HOES + PUN) outside M | |
| 6 | CRUSTACEA | |
| Film expert with a collection of sea creatures (9) | CRUST + ACE + A | |
| 7 | SLEEP | |
| Takes off outside, returning for a rest period (5) | PEELS reversed | |
| 8 | CASH ON DELIVERY | |
| Payment method has varied in fraud committed by deli especially (4,2,8) | Anagram of HAS inside CON + DELI + VERY | |
| 14 | CLEARANCE | |
| Auditor in family group once missing out on authorisation (9) | EAR inside CLAN + (ONCE minus ON) | |
| 15 | GOT | |
| Received leave ahead of time (3) | GO + T | |
| 16 | DINOSAUR | |
| Is a round reshaped a square? (8) | Anagram of IS A ROUND | |
| 17 | DOORSTOP | |
| Gathering troops shifted a heavy, bulky item (8) | DO + anagram of TROOPS | |
| 20 | STEP IN | |
| Take action to secure material, for example, after change to set (4,2) | PIN after anagram of SET | |
| 21 | MICAH | |
| Letters kept by academic, a holy part of the Bible (5) | acadeMIC A Holy | |
| 23 | GLEAN | |
| Pick up angler down river in a sorry state (5) | Anagram of (ANGLER minus R) |
