| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MANIFESTO | |
| Public declaration staff provided, established nothing (9) | MAN + IF + EST + O | |
| 6 | FORM | |
| Construction beneficial to millions (4) | FOR + M | |
| 10 | SAUDI | |
| Middle Easterner’s small German car (5) | S + AUDI | |
| 11 | LIGHT BEER | |
| Pub’s offering fair worker water at the back (5,4) | LIGHT + BEE + WATE(R) | |
| 12 | IRON HAND | |
| Go on following rhino abroad with strict control (4,4) | AND after anagram of RHINO | |
| 13 | SCENIC | |
| “Weird Science” for the most part is visually impressive (6) | Anagram of (SCIENC)E | |
| 15 | HEARSE | |
| Vehicle transporting people, usually late, tries heading to expressway (6) | HEARS + (E)XPRESSWAY | |
| 16 | OSSICLE | |
| Small bone got taken away from excited ecologists (7) | Anagram of ECOLOGISTS minus GOT | |
| 18 | RAN | |
| Standing down, king moved quickly (3) | RANK minus K | |
| 19 | BRIOCHE | |
| Zest applied to half of cheese roll (7) | BRIO + (CHE)ESE | |
| 21 | FLOWER | |
| Fine cow – Daisy, perhaps? (6) | F + LOWER | |
| 24 | UMPIRE | |
| Leader of union corrupted prime arbitrator (6) | (U)NION + anagram of PRIME | |
| 25 | ADHERENT | |
| Supporter died here in a part of Australia (8) | (D + HERE) inside (A + NT) | |
| 27 | TRADESMAN | |
| Terms changed about marketing an individual who is skilled (9) | Anagram of (TERMS outside AD) + AN | |
| 28 | HOUSE | |
| Store uranium in a flexible tube (5) | U inside HOSE | |
| 29 | DUET | |
| Song for two outstanding tenors at the front (4) | DUE + (T)ENORS | |
| 30 | THE ORIENT | |
| Theories diminished by religious writings in some Asian countries (3,6) | (THEORIE)S + NT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MASTIC | |
| Part of yacht, one covered primarily with sealant (6) | MAST + I + (C)OVERED | |
| 2 | NEURONE | |
| A deposit of nineteen ? needed for impulsive little thing? (7) | nineteeN EURO NEeded | |
| 3 | FLIGHT RECORDER | |
| Aviation equipment left in freight violated captain’s first order (6,8) | L inside anagram of FREIGHT + (C)APTAIN + ORDER | |
| 4 | SPLINTERED | |
| Lewinsky, originally accommodated by misguided President, is shattered (10) | (L)EWINSKY inside anagram of PRESIDENT | |
| 5 | ORGY | |
| Some coming back from really gross and wild party (4) | reallY GROss reversed | |
| 7 | OCEANIC | |
| Marine repaired canoe, one found by entrance to cove (7) | Anagram of CANOE + I + (C)OVE | |
| 8 | MIRACLES | |
| Race not quite finished in long distance events that are amazing (8) | (RAC)E inside MILES | |
| 9 | STICKS TOGETHER | |
| Pieces of wood got packaged up with three different glues (6,8) | STICKS + (GOT reversed) + anagram of THREE | |
| 14 | CONFIDENCE | |
| Trust identification carried by swindler and dodgy reseller (10) | ID inside (CON + FENCE) | |
| 17 | ABDUCTED | |
| Type of blood running through a pipe and carried off (8) | AB + DUCTED | |
| 20 | IN PLACE | |
| A pencil with an odd shape is working (2,5) | Anagram of A PENCIL | |
| 22 | EXECUTE | |
| Discharge four expelled from administration (7) | EXECUTIVE minus IV | |
| 23 | STREET | |
| Road plant cutting through stone (6) | TREE inside ST | |
| 26 | EMIT | |
| Throw out overturning of prison sentence (4) | TIME reversed |
