| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | TREASURE | |
| Adjusted rate with fixed value (8) | Anagram of RATE + SURE | |
| 5 | FINDER | |
| Friend ordered an instrument used to locate a target (6) | Anagram of FRIEND | |
| 9 & 21dn |
READING MATTER | |
| Tried a garment fabricated with printed material (7,6) | Anagram of TRIED A GARMENT | |
| 10 & 6dn |
WROUGHT IRON | |
| Malleable metal unpleasant apprentice dumped in empty wagon? (7,4) | (ROUGH + TIRO) inside W(ago)N | |
| 11 | UNSOCIABLE | |
| A lion’s cub, disturbed close to cave, may be hostile (10) | Anagram of A LIONS CUB + E | |
| 12 | PAIN | |
| One of the family in agony (4) | PA + IN | |
| 13 | HOLD IN | |
| Check iodine and nitrogen kept behind ship’s storage facility (4,2) | (I + N) behind HOLD | |
| 15 | MEMORIAL | |
| The writer, one listed in ethical statement of facts (8) | ME + (I inside MORAL) | |
| 18 | PLAYGOER | |
| One who’s regularly seen in theatre’s yard sheltering in new pergola (8) | Y inside anagram of PERGOLA | |
| 19 | LEDGES | |
| Sides put on the back of long shelves (6) | EDGES behind L | |
| 22 | ALPS | |
| A vinyl record’s high points (4) | A + LP’S | |
| 23 | RECAPTURED | |
| Backed racehorse turned short of pole and recovered (10) | PACER reversed + (TURNED minus N) | |
| 26 | ANIMATE | |
| Encourage a friend holding nickel (7) | (A + MATE) outside NI | |
| 27 | TYRANTS | |
| Powerful people try disorderly social workers (7) | Anagram of TRY + ANTS | |
| 28 | DETEST | |
| Really dislike steed broken by another in the middle (6) | Anagram of STEED + ano(T)her | |
| 29 | TRIDENTS | |
| Campsite filled with free missiles (8) | TENTS outside RID | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | See 25-down | |
| 2 | EXAMS | |
| A male taking part in sex arranged tests (5) | (A + M) inside anagram of SEX | |
| 3 | STITCHING | |
| Sutures cause irritation in wound (9) | ITCH inside STING | |
| 4 | RAGLAN | |
| Guy left an overcoat without shoulder seams (6) | RAG + L + AN | |
| 6 | See 10-across | |
| 7 | DEGRADING | |
| Doctor handling, for example, a slight depression, is disgraceful (9) | (DR outside EG) + A + DING | |
| 8 | RETINOL | |
| Treated relation deficient in a vitamin essential for good eyesight (7) | Anagram of RELATION minus A | |
| 10 | WILTED | |
| Tree oddly, in an uncultivated region, suffered in the heat (6) | (T)r(E)e inside WILD | |
| 14 | LEAD PAINT | |
| Manage glass containing a colouring agent (4,5) | LEAD + (PINT outside A) | |
| 16 | OVERTIRED | |
| Exhausted one tucked into open bottle of wine (9) | I inside (OVERT + RED) | |
| 17 | TERETE | |
| Smooth and cylindrical tree sculptured by the Maori (6) | Anagram of TREE + TE | |
| 18 | PLACARD | |
| Public notice political party sent up by comedian (7) | ALP reversed + CARD | |
| 20 | SADISTS | |
| Grave is opened up by street people with a mean streak (7) | SAD + (IS outside ST) | |
| 21 | See 9-across | |
| 24 | RAN ON | |
| Right person with a secret identity kept going (3,2) | R + ANON | |
| 25 & 1dn |
PASS THROUGH | |
| Quiet fool detailed the difficult experience? (4,7) | P + ASS + TH(e) + ROUGH |
