| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MODULATE | |
| Adjust version of Ludo owned by colleague (8) | Anagram of LUDO inside MATE | |
| 5 | ASCENT | |
| Value of a bouquet is way up (6) | A + SCENT | |
| 10 | DATUM | |
| Little bit of information group of workers kept in check (5) | TU (trade union) inside DAM | |
| 11 | ATTRIBUTE | |
| Point at bone in class (9) | AT + (RIB inside TUTE) | |
| 12 | CAR SEAT | |
| A passenger will take this marine on board carrier (3,4) | SEA inside CART | |
| 13 | BAUXITE | |
| Source of aluminium and gold cross held by champ (7) | (AU + X) inside BITE | |
| 14 | NUDE | |
| Shifted dune is totally exposed (4) | Anagram of DUNE | |
| 16 | RE-EDUCATE | |
| School again reacted badly accepting university course’s final (2-7) | (Anagram of REACTED outside U) + E | |
| 20 | LOWER-CASE | |
| Small and large debtor associated with a lawsuit (5-4) | L + OWER + CASE | |
| 23 | CEDE | |
| Give up a highly-ranked competitor in speech (4) | Sounds like SEED | |
| 25 | ARTISTS | |
| Creative people arranged sitar tunes and songs primarily (7) | Anagram of SITAR + T + S | |
| 26 | PROBING | |
| Head of plain clothes section is investigating (7) | P + ROBING | |
| 28 | PROFESSOR | |
| Pupils initially ordered roses for head teacher (9) | P + anagram of ROSES FOR | |
| 29 | BEGET | |
| Father, for example, sat in punt (5) | EG inside BET | |
| 30 | NESTLE | |
| Teens, upset about end of school, cuddle up (6) | Anagram of TEENS outside schoo(L) | |
| 31 | FRENETIC | |
| Mad fellow, one found in centre undergoing treatment (8) | F + (I inside anagram of CENTRE) | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MEDICINAL | |
| Ice man I’d bashed up and left is healing (9) | Anagram of ICE MAN ID + L | |
| 2 | DETER | |
| Discourage elks, say, gathering around close to forest (5) | DEER outside fores(T) | |
| 3 | LAMBED | |
| Young man, catering for huge order, delivered sheep (6) | LAD outside MBE | |
| 4 | TRAITOR | |
| Quality shown by heart of reformed defector? (7) | TRAIT + ref(OR)med | |
| 6 | STIMULUS | |
| Form of litmus, developed by American, is a shot in the arm (8) | Anagram of LITMUS + US | |
| 7 | ELUCIDATE | |
| Explain cryptic clue, one written by partner (9) | Anagram of CLUE + I + DATE | |
| 8 | THERE | |
| That place, the area in the middle (5) | THE + a(RE)a | |
| 9 | STABLE | |
| Small piece of furniture is durable (6) | S + TABLE | |
| 15 | DOWN TOOLS | |
| Strike is excessively long in open upland country (4,5) | (TOO + L) inside DOWNS | |
| 17 | ENS | |
| Printing measures may be condensed partly (3) | condENSed | |
| 18 | ENERGETIC | |
| High-powered Green muddled quote up (9) | Anagram of GREEN + CITE reversed | |
| 19 | DRY SPELL | |
| Unproductive period in yard turned around without a magic formula (3,5) | (YARD reversed minus A) + SPELL | |
| 21 | ASSIST | |
| Pompous fool is last to accept benefit (6) | ASS + IS + T | |
| 22 | EMPEROR | |
| Coinage of Rome sent around by ruler (7) | Anagram of ROME outside PER | |
| 24 | BOBBIN | |
| Old money container about which a yarn is spun (6) | BOB + BIN | |
| 25 | ASPEN | |
| Like to fence in a ski resort in America? (5) | AS + PEN | |
| 27 | INGOT | |
| Piece of precious metal found behind home (5) | GOT behind IN |
