| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | FORMAT | |
| Arrangement beneficial to friend isn’t quite complete (6) | FOR + (MAT)e | |
| 5 | PICK | |
| Player of strings is a ground-breaker (4) | Double Definition | |
| 9 | OUTED | |
| Versatile vehicle used in middle of flooding may be exposed (5) | UTE inside flo(OD)ing | |
| 10 | CATARACTS | |
| Vehicle turns around at waterfalls (9) | (CAR + ACTS) outside AT | |
| 13 | TREATED | |
| Extremes of temperature in walk must be managed (7) | (T)emperatur(E) inside TREAD | |
| 14 | SYRINGA | |
| Mock orange, say, replanted around enclosure (7) | Anagram of SAY outside RING | |
| 15 | MITE | |
| A very small person in power given voice (4) | Sounds like MIGHT | |
| 16 | IMMOBILISE | |
| Freeze one ruptured embolism injected with iodine (10) | I + anagram of EMBOLISM outside I | |
| 19 | HEAVY-LADEN | |
| Burdened lady transformed in heaven (5-5) | Anagram of LADY inside HEAVEN | |
| 20 | PEAT | |
| Vegetable matter is soft to chew (4) | P + EAT | |
| 23 | AMASSED | |
| Racked up 500 following a difficult billiards shot (7) | D after (A + MASSE) | |
| 25 | SAUSAGE | |
| Practice required after saw reduced butcher’s output (7) | USAGE after SA(w) | |
| 26 | DETERMINE | |
| Discover explosive at end of check (9) | MINE after DETER | |
| 28 | MOLAR | |
| Damage on outside of old, decayed tooth? (5) | MAR outside OL(d) | |
| 29 | EARS | |
| Auditors are replaced by computers finally (4) | Anagram of ARE + computer(S) | |
| 30 | LOSING | |
| Shutting down clubs not making money (6) | CLOSING minus C | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 2 | ODDITY | |
| They’d do it all wrong without input from the misfit (6) | Anagram of THEYD DO IT minus THE | |
| 3 | MACADAMIA | |
| Nut married the first man imprisoned by a US spy network (9) | M + [ADAM inside (A + CIA)] | |
| 4 | TITUS | |
| Religious book titles – used – both 50% off (5) | TIT(les) + US(ed) | |
| 5 | PORTRAIT | |
| Photograph train nearly inside transit terminal (8) | TRAI(n) inside PORT | |
| 6 | KIT | |
| Common types of skirt and kilt in outfit (3) | The letters shared by SKIRT and KILT | |
| 7 | BOTTOM | |
| Foundation is time and time again featured in expansion (6) | (T + T) inside BOOM | |
| 8 | STREETS APART | |
| Repeats broadcast in institute may be very different (7,5) | Anagram of REPEATS inside START | |
| 11 | CONSIDERABLE | |
| Large line drawn around area where batters may score runs (12) | CABLE outside (ONSIDE + R) | |
| 12 | STALE | |
| Ending of this story is lacking originality (5) | thi(S) + TALE | |
| 17 | OVERSEERS | |
| Supervisors love writing about clerks at the centre (9) | O + [VERSES outside cl(ER)ks] | |
| 18 | EYESORES | |
| Climbing types of Japanese rose, yellowing, may be ugly looking things (8) | japanesE ROSE YEllowing reversed | |
| 19 | HEARD | |
| Picked up drug inside complex (5) | E inside HARD | |
| 21 | THEORY | |
| Speculation male outlined initially in essay (6) | [HE + (O)utlined] inside TRY | |
| 22 | SUMMON | |
| Call child occupied by distracted mum (6) | SON outside anagram of MUM | |
| 24 | DRILL | |
| Instruction tool that gets a bit used (5) | Double Definition | |
| 27 | EWE | |
| Sheep and stock farmed in New England (3) | nEW England |
