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 |