| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MISSHAPEN | |
| Ugly young lady has not finished with writer (9) | MISS + HA(s) + PEN | |
| 6 | ISAAC | |
| Patriarch is a focus of tracts (5) | IS + A + tr(AC)ts | |
| 9 | TRAMS | |
| People movers, electronically controlled, rolled backwards (5) | SMART reversed | |
| 10 | INSOLUBLE | |
| Strange demeanour of one bull is mystifying (9) | Anagram of ONE BULL IS | |
| 11 | OVERACTS | |
| Arranged to carve small hams (8) | Anagram of TO CARVE + S | |
| 12 | PROTEA | |
| South African plant rot identified in legume (6) | ROT inside PEA | |
| 14 | APPLIED | |
| A pope oddly said the wrong thing should be implemented (7) | A (P)o(P)e + LIED | |
| 15 | REFEREE | |
| Judge replaced free roll of film before the end (7) | Anagram of FREE + REE(l) | |
| 17 | ONE | |
| A single person came through in speech (3) | Sounds like WON | |
| 18 | TABLEAU | |
| Letter from Greece about clever group picture (7) | TAU outside ABLE | |
| 20 | SIRLOIN | |
| Cut of meat, for example, not considered kosher in different religions (7) | Anagram of RELIGIONS minus EG | |
| 22 | ROLLER | |
| One may be employed to paint an expensive car (6) | Double Definition | |
| 24 | ON TIPTOE | |
| Ballerina’s position changed to pointe! (2,6) | Anagram of TO POINTE | |
| 27 | TITLE DEED | |
| Document proving ownership – it was first recorded in the Maori edition (5,4) | (IT + LED) inside TE + ED | |
| 28 | NAIVE | |
| One stuck in the main part of a church is innocent (5) | I inside NAVE | |
| 29 | CADDY | |
| Give assistance to a professional supplier of tea (5) | Double Definition | |
| 30 | BOYFRIEND | |
| Date possibly could be bone-dry if processed (9) | Anagram of BONEDRY IF | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MOTTO | |
| Type of cat brought up to cry (5) | TOM reversed + TO | |
| 2 | SHAKE UP | |
| Disturb fish swimming in drink (5,2) | HAKE inside SUP | |
| 3 | HISTAMINE | |
| This formed a deposit and compound released during allergic reactions (9) | Anagram of THIS + A + MINE | |
| 4 | PRINTED OUT | |
| New configuration of ported unit should be recorded on paper (7,3) | Anagram of PORTED UNIT | |
| 5 | NEST | |
| Area almost separated from nearest breeding-ground (4) | NEAREST minus ARE(a) | |
| 6 | IDLER | |
| One learner, in view of traffic light, reversed into stationary car perhaps? (5) | I + (L inside RED reversed) | |
| 7 | ARBITER | |
| Judge a registered Nipper (7) | A + R + BITER | |
| 8 | CAESAREAN | |
| Care about sea rising before an operational manoeuvre to effect delivery (9) | CARE outside SEA reversed + AN | |
| 13 | PRESENT-DAY | |
| Gift, diary, oddly seen as contemporary (7-3) | PRESENT + (D)i(A)r(Y) | |
| 14 | ANTARCTIC | |
| An approach cut by river near the south pole (9) | AN + (TACTIC outside R) | |
| 16 | FOREIGNER | |
| Alien’s rule embraced by enemy right? (9) | REIGN inside FOE + R | |
| 19 | BELATED | |
| Retrieval of account held by foundation is overdue (7) | TALE reversed inside BED | |
| 21 | OUTLINE | |
| Sketch may be long in routine without an introduction (7) | L inside (r)OUTINE | |
| 23 | EVERY | |
| All possible heading to exams in a high degree (5) | E + VERY | |
| 25 | EMEND | |
| Workers secured by editor to make corrections (5) | MEN inside ED | |
| 26 | HERB | |
| Sprigs of rather big plant with useful properties (4) | ratHER Big |
