| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | LIFT UP | |
| Raise living things, mostly sheep (4,2) | LIF(e) + TUP | |
| 5 | ENTREATY | |
| Request to take food into lobby (8) | EAT inside ENTRY | |
| 9 | STEPMOTHER | |
| Unnatural parent sprayed pet covered in thick floating dust (10) | Anagram of PET inside SMOTHER | |
| 10 | POPE | |
| People not supporting the Spanish church leader (4) | PEOPLE minus EL | |
| 11 | DROP-GOAL | |
| Score from drive by Australian basketball player taking turn (4-4) | DR + (OPAL outside GO) | |
| 12 | YANKEE | |
| One in New York recalled keen, underdeveloped baseballer? (6) | (A inside NY reversed) + KEE(n) | |
| 14 | KIDNEY | |
| Kind youngster returned money found in Japan (6) | KID + YEN reversed | |
| 15 | NEST EGGS | |
| Teens exchanged horses for funds providing financial security (4,4) | Anagram of TEENS + GGS | |
| 17 | AGGRIEVE | |
| Break the heart of Greek that is five in age (8) | (GR + IE + V) inside AGE | |
| 20 | ENTIRE | |
| One tucking into first course almost is full (6) | I inside ENTRE(e) | |
| 22 | REBUFF | |
| Check polish again (6) | Double definition | |
| 24 | ENCAMPED | |
| Caped men dismantled pitched tents (8) | Anagram of CAPED MEN | |
| 25 | DIED | |
| Turned a different colour in audience and passed away (4) | Sounds like DYED | |
| 27 | VINDICTIVE | |
| Spiteful four scored after charge in middle of over? (10) | (IV after INDICT) inside o(VE)r | |
| 28 | TEMPORAL | |
| Passing patrol shuffled around me on the way back (8) | Anagram of PATROL outside ME reversed | |
| 29 | DRYERS | |
| Doctor, full of alcohol, hooked up with first of several laundry workers (6) | (RYE inside DR) + S | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 2 | INTERMINGLE | |
| Eminent girl organised merge (11) | Anagram of EMINENT GIRL | |
| 3 | TOPSPIN | |
| Warne might use this backward position in front of leg (7) | SPOT reversed + PIN | |
| 4 | PROTOTYPE | |
| Original page converted to poetry (9) | P + anagram of TO POETRY | |
| 5 | ECHELON | |
| The man captured by clone manipulated a level of command (7) | HE inside anagram of CLONE | |
| 6 | TARDY | |
| Contents of hydrate turned up late (5) | hYDRATe reversed | |
| 7 | EXPANSE | |
| Former partner looks around last piece of office space (7) | EX + PANS + E | |
| 8 | TIP | |
| Clue list (3) | Double definition | |
| 13 | EAGER BEAVER | |
| Keen person brewed average beer (5,6) | Anagram of AVERAGE BEER | |
| 16 | STEPCHILD | |
| Somebody else’s kid pitches wildly over heads of little darlings (9) | Anagram of PITCHES + LD | |
| 18 | ROUND UP | |
| Group function interrupted by old fool mostly (5,2) | RUN outside O + DUP(e) | |
| 19 | ETERNAL | |
| Permanent cross cut out of surface (7) | EXTERNAL minus X | |
| 21 | TIMOTHY | |
| Biblical writer’s haymaker? (7) | Double definition | |
| 23 | FEVER | |
| Fellow always with an abnormally high body temperature (5) | F + EVER | |
| 26 | ICE | |
| Cool down components of graphic equaliser (3) | graphIC Equaliser |
