| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DANDRUFF | |
| Back of head and collar showing signs of skin problem (8) | HEAD(D) + AND + RUFF | |
| 5 | USES UP | |
| Goes through items stored in house supposedly (4,2) | hoUSE SUPposedly | |
| 9 | CATALAN | |
| Group of people grabbing at a Spaniard (7) | CLAN outside (AT + A) | |
| 10 | MANDATE | |
| Staff meeting’s official instruction (7) | MAN (verb) + DATE | |
| 11 | PROPAGANDA | |
| Specialist US prosecutor, going after atheist, organized spread of information (10) | PRO + (DA after PAGAN) | |
| 12 | SEGA | |
| Game producer is a long time in retirement (4) | AGES reversed | |
| 13 | DETAINEES | |
| People held in custody need a site rebuilt (9) | Anagram of NEED A SITE | |
| 15 | MELEE | |
| Five of nine elements brought back confused group (5) | ninE ELEMents reversed | |
| 16 | DYING | |
| Adding colour in speech is on the way out (5) | Sounds like DYEING | |
| 17 | TOP-FLIGHT | |
| Superior is to function in a dangerous situation (3-6) | TO + (F inside PLIGHT) | |
| 19 | RODE | |
| Most members of cowboy show did some travelling (4) | (RODE)O | |
| 20 | ALTRUISTIC | |
| Key country person embracing one humanitarian (10) | ALT + (RUSTIC outside I) | |
| 23 | CHARITY | |
| Helpful organization’s complex not quite finished in a large town (7) | (HAR)D inside CITY | |
| 24 | NOSTRIL | |
| Numbers connected to trial not taking a breather (7) | NOS + (TRIAL minus A) | |
| 25 | SKEWED | |
| Stitched across front of kimono on an angle (6) | SEWED outside (K)IMONO | |
| 26 | MIGRANTS | |
| Head of mission is receiving government handout for people subject to relocation (8) | [(M)ISSION + IS] outside GRANT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | DECAPOD | |
| Dupe stepped around crab, say (7) | (DO + PACED) reversed | |
| 2 | NITRO | |
| Explosive from of iron maintaining temperature (5) | Anagram of IRON outside T | |
| 3 | RELEASING | |
| Redeployed General is letting go (9) | Anagram of GENERAL IS | |
| 4 | FUNDAMENTALLY | |
| Available money a unit’s members count up primarily (13) | FUND + A + MEN + TALLY | |
| 6 | SONG | |
| Succession of notes on gramophone? (4) | noteS ON Gramophone | |
| 7 | SHAKE A LEG | |
| Start moving fish in sale before end of trading (5,1,3) | (HAKE inside SALE) + TRADING(G) | |
| 8 | PRESAGE | |
| Forecast resolution in section of newspaper (7) | RES inside PAGE | |
| 10 | MODUS OPERANDI | |
| Ponderous maid refined routine (5,8) | Anagram of PONDEROUS MAID | |
| 14 | THIRD BASE | |
| Bids are greatly varied in the diamond area (5,4) | Anagram of (BIDS AR)E inside THE | |
| 15 | MULTI-USER | |
| Drug carrier, transporting business executive up river, is available to many (5-4) | MULE outside (SUIT reversed) + R | |
| 16 | DIRECTS | |
| Alarming cuts not supported by university masterminds (7) | DIRE + (CUTS minus U) | |
| 18 | TACKLES | |
| Has a go at gutless clerk in accounts? (7) | C(ler)K inside TALES | |
| 21 | TURIN | |
| Circuit going around one Italian city (5) | TURN outside I | |
| 22 | FINE | |
| Fair penalty (4) | Double Definition |
