| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | WELL-KEPT | |
| Clean, healthy pet, wrongly injected with potassium (4-4) | WELL + anagram of PET outside K | |
| 5 | STOCKS | |
| Handle small investments (6) | STOCK + S | |
| 10 | NONE TOO | |
| Group of nine rings? Hardly! (4,3) | NONET + OO | |
| 11 | OPEN-AIR | |
| Outdoor operation by leader of Egypt unsettled Iran (4-3) | OP + (E)gypt + anagram of IRAN | |
| 12 | FORCEMEAT | |
| The writer getting stuck into crate of cooked stuffing (9) | ME inside anagram of CRATE OF | |
| 13 | TALON | |
| The stock varied in total with it left out (5) | Anagram of IN TOTAL minus IT | |
| 14 | RUSE | |
| Right to take advantage of deception (4) | R + USE | |
| 16 | FLAGRANT | |
| Outrageous member of the family moved into apartment (8) | GRAN inside FLAT | |
| 19 | DATABASE | |
| A tax form lodged in time for computer store (8) | (A + BAS) inside DATE | |
| 20 | FETE | |
| Selection of buffet, especially, is fair (4) | bufFET Especially | |
| 23 | AMEND | |
| Change people starring in commercial (5) | MEN insidde AD | |
| 24 | TAILPLANE | |
| Temperature linked to trouble with moulded panel’s horizontal stabiliser (9) | T + AIL + anagram of PANEL | |
| 26 | PROVISO | |
| Excellent golfer against one, as stated, with qualification (7) | PRO + V + I + SO | |
| 27 | AIRPORT | |
| It may be used by traveller or taken during a trip abroad (7) | OR inside anagram of A TRIP | |
| 28 | DINNER | |
| Starter of duck served before private function (6) | (D)uck + INNER | |
| 29 | AS IT WERE | |
| One wearing knitted sweater, so to speak (2,2,4) | I inside anagram of SWEATER | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | WIND FARM | |
| Twist arm behind the back of chief energy producer (4,4) | WIND + F + ARM | |
| 2 | LONER | |
| Maverick individual right behind leader of Liberals (5) | (ONE + R) after (L)iberals | |
| 3 | KITTEN | |
| Gear to catch retreating young animal (6) | KIT + (NET reversed) | |
| 4 | PROPER FRACTION | |
| Football player, for certain, distracted half, say (6,8) | PROP + anagram of FOR CERTAIN | |
| 6 | TWEETERS | |
| Cute, compact, cut-down speakers (8) | TWEE + TERS(e) | |
| 7 | CHALLENGE | |
| Church warden at last brought in to maintain protest (9) | CH + [warde(N) inside ALLEGE] | |
| 8 | SARONG | |
| Signora re-dressed, discarding one loose skirt (6) | Anagram of SIGNORA minus I | |
| 9 | NORTH AMERICANS | |
| NRA: “Crime has not troubled people with the right to bear arms” (5,9) | Anagram of NRA CRIME HAS NOT | |
| 15 | SCALE DOWN | |
| Shrink, like fish have (5,4) | SCALED + OWN | |
| 17 | HARD LINE | |
| One restrained by handler changed an unyielding attitude (4,4) | I inside anagram of HANDLER | |
| 18 | PERENTIE | |
| Monitor gym that is ending lease (8) | PE + (IE after RENT) | |
| 21 | WARPED | |
| Deformed extremities of people kept in hospital section (6) | (P)eopl(E) inside WARD | |
| 22 | SPIRIT | |
| Model charged with current reversed vital force (6) | SIT outside (RIP reversed) | |
| 25 | AWOKE | |
| Contents of pan and wok, with last bit of spice, should be stirred? (5) | p(A)n + WOK + spic(E) |
